12/04/2022
🤩National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day🥪🧀
While this is a little known celebration, it is a very delicious one🤤. National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day is celebrated on April 12th of each year in the USA. There is no parade or gifts associated with this celebration, but it is the perfect opportunity to make your own grilled cheese sandwich at home. You can make a classic grilled cheese with sliced bread and a slice of cheddar cheese or you can make a fancier version with onions, turkey or ham, spinach, etc.
Fun fact: The grilled cheese sandwich became popular during the Great Depression (1930s) and it was originally called “the cheese dream.”
Recipe for the perfect grilled cheese
Ingredients:
• 🍞🥖2 slices of the bread of your choice (white bread and sourdough (pain au levain) are the best)
• 🧀🧀🧀As much Cheese as you would like (Gouda, Swiss cheese, Cheddar or to make it more French, try Raclette), cut into slices.
• Toppings of your choice: 🧅onions, 🥒vegetables, 🥬spinach, 🍗turkey, ham, chorizo.
• Some butter for the pan.
Instructions:
The chef has selected two slices of sourdough, Cheddar cheese and onions.
First slice your onion.
In a small pan, heat up butter on medium heat and caramelize the onion until it is brown. Then remove from the heat.
Once you are done with the onions, in a large pan, heat up butter on medium high. Once the pan is hot, lightly toast the bread on both sides.
Leaving the slices of toast in the pan, add cheese to both slices of bread. Allow cheese to melt and then add caramelized onions.
To assemble your grilled cheese sandwich, simply put one slice on the other slice.
Eat your grilled cheese with a side of tomato soup. Enjoy!🤩🤩🤩
Have you ever made a grilled cheese sandwich at home?
