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21 January 2008

Help me make a sammich. →[More:]

My department at work is getting together in a couple weeks for "Food Club". [insert joke about the first rule of Food Club here] The theme is "Grilled Cheese Sandwiches".

Please help me think of an unusual but tasty concoction that I can wow my cow orkers with!

post by: Specklet at: 19:22 | 24 comments

Hmmm... grilled cheese, avocado, bacon, and tomato?

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 21 January | 19:28

For an epic win, use the Habanero Mustard from Kruger's Farm on Sauvie Island.

posted by pieisexactlythree 21 January | 19:29

I don't know what the artisianl bread situation is down in Portland, but I'm assuming you can find something like Essential Baking's Olive bread (scroll down). Slice that, add some nice ham (maybe prosciutto?), a little brie, and you've got a tasty sammich. Be sure to put some weight on the sandwich while you're grilling it - I use our dutch oven, but a kettle full of water would work, too - to get that nice toasty crust on the outside. Or, if you have a panini grill, use that.

posted by bmarkey 21 January | 19:29

Teeps, not unusual enough. I love that sammich, but you can get it in a restaurant. I want something weird, something surprising.

Pie, do they sell that mustard anywhere that's easlily accessible by bus? It sounds great, but Sauvie's Island is a trek!

bmarkey, I have access to wonderful breads, and actually had in the back of my mind a calamata loaf... I don't normally eat ham, perhaps I should get some to experiment with.

posted by Specklet 21 January | 19:38

Turkey works, too. Or you could omit the meat altogether, really.

posted by bmarkey 21 January | 19:40

Use taleggio. Creamy, flavorful, a little musty, a little sharp... I'm a big fan of grilled cheese with taleggio, prosciutto, and either roasted red pepper or fresh tomatoes depending on the time of year.

This grilled cheese with taleggio and grapes sounds fucking excellent, though I've never tried that.

posted by dersins 21 January | 19:55

grilled cheese with taleggio, prosciutto, and ... roasted red pepper

Oh man, there's your winner right there. I am so hungry right now, I just drooled a little on my keyboard.

posted by bmarkey 21 January | 19:58

According to one of the food network chefs, you can use any combination of bread, cheese and jam/jelly for grilled cheese yumminess. He demonstrated with three bingo cages of cards with types of bread.

You might try garlic ciabatta, brie and cranberry.

Or sourdough, sharp cheddar, jalapeno.

Or Italian, havarti, strawberry.

posted by plinth 21 January | 20:06

Potato sandwiches are fairly novel.

Boil a few red potatoes and slice them into medallions. Put them between rye bread with the cheese of your choice, bacon, horseradish, dijon mustard, and perhaps a little sauerkraut. Bake, grill, or panini-press the result.

posted by Iridic 21 January | 20:07

I started salivating too, and added taleggio to my shopping list.

posted by Specklet 21 January | 20:08

Oooh potato...!

posted by Specklet 21 January | 20:15

The King Among Sandwiches

posted by jonmc 21 January | 20:16

Specklet, I'm sure somebody sells it in the city, but I've only got it at the farm store, which is closed this time of year anyway.

posted by pieisexactlythree 21 January | 20:17

A bit of fig jam and brie, grilled on your bread of choice = heaven.

posted by gaspode 21 January | 20:23

I don't think a fluffernutter qualifies as grilled cheese, jon. (Do people really eat those?)

posted by bmarkey 21 January | 20:28

I loved them as a kid. Still like 'em as a grownup.

posted by jonmc 21 January | 20:32

Huh. I always thought they were some sort of urban legend.

posted by bmarkey 21 January | 20:35

According to one of the food network chefs, you can use any combination of bread, cheese and jam/jelly for grilled cheese yumminess.

That's the kind of generalization that just cries out for a counterexample.

posted by box 21 January | 20:42

Wonderbread, velveeta, mint jelly.

posted by jonmc 21 January | 20:43

Cinnamon-raisin bread, feta and guava jelly.

posted by box 21 January | 21:09

Two options:

(1) Good bread with mayo, brown mustard, havarti, sliced tomato, sliced avocado, roasted red pepper optional, add crispy lettuce after grilling.

(2) Good bread with fig spread, prosciutto, blue cheese-y spread (or other slightly pungent cheese flavor), bitter greens, grill.

posted by Claudia_SF 21 January | 21:46

Mmm, I love fluffernutters. (Remember how tongue-burning HOT! the fluff use-ta get?)

I think you should announce that the fluff is (googling ingredients), errhm, a non-dairy gluten-free sweetened cheese substitute.

posted by Claudia_SF 21 January | 21:55

Mmm, I love fluffernutters. (Remember how tongue-burning HOT! the fluff use-ta get?)

I ate them cold. My roomate in college tried to toast one in the toaster oven and it caught on fire. We put out the fire with water but that broke the toaster oven.

posted by jonmc 21 January | 22:24

Cold?? No, no, for the maximum fluff experience you make it with creamy peanut butter and fluff inside, and butter (more fat, yay!) on the outside of the bread, grill in sandwich grill. May trigger coronary.

posted by Claudia_SF 21 January | 22:43

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