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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

My absolute favorite is a crusty bread with brie and spinach, drizzled with a bit of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. So delicious!

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From scratch, with lemons, water, and sugar. Cutting and juicing all those lemons always makes the kitchen smell so good.

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Sandwich Lover? Let's build!

My favorite sandwich ever:

Crusty ciabatta bread with brie and chopped spinach drizzled with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, broiled until the cheese has melted. So good!

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Best Boba Teahouses in Southern Cali

I really love Cha for Tea, which is also in Irvine, near UCI. Yum (:

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From Talk

Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

My absolute favorite is a crusty bread with brie and spinach, drizzled with a bit of balsamic vinegar and olive oil. So delicious!

From Serious Eats

Threadless T-Shirt Giveaway: Lemon Aid

From scratch, with lemons, water, and sugar. Cutting and juicing all those lemons always makes the kitchen smell so good.

From Talk

Sandwich Lover? Let's build!

My favorite sandwich ever:

Crusty ciabatta bread with brie and chopped spinach drizzled with balsamic vinegar and olive oil, broiled until the cheese has melted. So good!

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Best Boba Teahouses in Southern Cali

I really love Cha for Tea, which is also in Irvine, near UCI. Yum (:

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Eating in Vegas

I'm going to agree with some of the commenters above and recommend Lotus of Siam. I've known the owners since I was a little girl, and they owned a restaurant in Norwalk, California called Renu Nakorn. I'm in love with Thai food, and I can safely say that the best is from them. It's a hole in the wall type restaurant, far from the glitz and glamour of Sin City, but it's definitely worth straying from the Strip.

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What do you eat for breakfast on holidays?

In my family, breakfast is the main event on Christmas. We're Japanese American, but for as long as I can remember, the siblings have all gathered at my mom's house for a meal of posole and tamales. There's always drama around finding fresh nix tamal (hominy) for the soup in the days leading up to Christmas breakfast. No hominy means no posole. And I don't even want to think about what no posole would mean.

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I say ~ "different strokes for different folks."

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

A crusty country bread, white cheddar, and diced jalapeno sprinkled on the cheese. And don't you dare seed that jalapeno!

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

English muffin lightly buttered, slices of sharp cheddar cheese, melted in a toaster oven, then add slices of dill pickles. Yum. It's been sort of my comfort food since I was a kid.

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Yesterday I put spicy brown mustard between the American cheese slices on white bread. Mustard melted in and made a yummy sandwich. I have done the tomato addition, as well and also put the sliced tomato between the cheese. When I was pregnant, I craved grilled American cheese sandwiches with bacon on a daily basis.

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

My favorite is cheddar, sauteed onions, and tomato between sourdough or white bread. mmmm!

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

My favorite is Govind Armstrong's grilled cheese with pulled beef ribs. People don't like calling it grilled cheese but oh well. The Bel Paese with it is so nice.

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

gruyere or pepper jack cheese + caramelized onions + bacon. Yum!!

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Especially in the winter, I make a grilled cheese using cheddar and tomato on a baguette and grill it in a panini press -- Yum!

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

white or wheat bread
w/olive oil instead of butter on the outside
american
sliced pickles
dipped in ranch.

also, if you are out and about and NEED a grilled cheese fix, Sonic will make it anyway you want it

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I like the basic but favor rye bread with cheddar or swiss or provo ...but what I want most with my gc is pickles..sliced dill pickles in between the slices of cheese so there is no sog.
@ getinmybelly I'm a BIG fan of the fried bologna sandwich. Most people think I'm nuts. I not sure if it's a regional thing or just was a different way to serve bologna when that all there was to eat. I'm ready for one right now :-)

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I looove using a mixture of ketchup and bbq with honey sauce, under a good layering of goats cheese, with fresh chorizo, and chopped onion.

Utter. Heaven.

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Monterrey Jack and a little bit of chopped sundried tomato.

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

my first comment! My favorite is white bread with a layer of mild/medium cheddar and a layer of monteray jack. And every once in a while bacon inserted after it's grilled.

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

my favorite is to place two slices of bread on the pan in some butter. rub the bread around to grab the butter. place slices of any cheese (except blue or parm) we have on one slice of bread and tomatoes on the other. give time to cook. seal sandwich. doing it with fake ham instead of tomatoes is also incredible.

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Today I made a really awesome grilled cheese out of two pieces of leftover aloo naan, some pepper jack cheese and some leftover onion chutney. It was so good!

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I have an appreciation for kraft singles, though there's no denying that that stuff is garbage. As far as grilled cheese goes, muenster muenster muenster, parhaps some Vermont cheddar if I'm in the mood. Note: cheddar takes longer to melt than most cheeses, specifically muenster, so that is something to consider. Anyway, the sandwich. Muenster, tomato, and a good artisan wheat bread. Butter the top of each slice of bread - not the pan - and flip occasionally to achieve a golden brown crust. That's how its done ladies and gents....

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

shoneyjoe, I agree with your point about aged cheddar. I absolutely hate grilled cheese sandwiches with sharp, aged cheddar. It turns into sour curds and grease when it "melts." Come to think of it, I don't really care for that kind of cheese in my mac and cheese, either, unless it's roux-based and thus creamier. Hot cheddar is just repulsive to me. And I'm a Wisconsinite!

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I'll be good - really. I promise.

For a cheese-only sandwich, a good medium cheddar cheese (the really strong aged stuff doesn't melt as well), a slight smear of creamy horseradish sauce, and a few drops of worcestershire. Tabasco after cooking but not before, as the punchiness gets watered down in the reheating.

For a cheese "plus", sometimes a very thin slice of prosciutto (does it come any other way?) and maybe some tomato. I'm not of the camp that thinks that this is no longer a grilled cheese sandwich.

Where do I draw the line? When you can pick up only the top slice of bread and bring up the whole sandwich in your hand. If it separates into a top and bottom half (and I don't care what you've put in it that makes it separate - meat, lettuce, chili con carne, rice pilaf), then it's not a grilled cheese.

@ youraudacity: I'm confused. Putting a small slice of meat in a grilled cheese makes it a hot sandwich, but putting all of lettuce, tomato, onion, ketchup, mustard, mayonnaise, and tabasco still preserves the integrity of a grilled cheese? Please.

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

@ cakesmurf: of course classic grilled cheese is awesome, but orchidgirl specifically asked-how do you make it more special?

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

true story...while i have no problem panini-ing it, if it's grilled cheese I'm after, then I'm a fan of the old-school. Some epic sandwiches have been made from wheat bread (I grew up on it) with kraft singles and excessive amounts of butter, fried in a pan until golden and melty. I've been known to make this grilled cheese for my brother at all hours of the day.

A side-note: not to do with grilled cheese, but are there any fried balogna sandwich fans out there?

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

why does everyone's grilled cheese have to be so gourmet to taste good?
wonderbread
kraft AMERICAN singles
tonss of butter
thats all it really takes. everything else if just extra

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Your Favorite Grilled Cheese Sandwich

Grilled cheese sandwiches are the only legitimate reason for the existence of Kraft singles. Square, white bread and matching square cheese slices.

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With lemons!

If I don't have the will to squeeze a few of my own, Newman's Own is OK

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Muddle together sugar and mint. Let sit for a little while, then add in plenty of fresh lemon juice. Mix in water to taste (seltzer water if you're feeling fancy), adjust sweetness/sourness, strain and serve, please!

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