Sunday, August 3, 2008

Ultimate Grill Cheese



When you have kids around, it is nice to have a way to spice up a meal like Grill Cheese that they love into something GREAT that you will love. I made this for my dad once and he suggested that I try and get it published...you know like Kerri did with Cooking Light.

1/2 onion thinly sliced
1 pkg mushrooms sliced
Jar of jalapenos
1 tomato thinly sliced and salt and peppered
butter
bread
cheese sliced for sandwiches

Saute onions in 1 tbsp olive oil. When starting to caramelize, add sliced mushroom and continue cooking until mushrooms begin to brown. Season with salt and pepper.
Butter outsides of bread and lay butter-side down in a medium heated pan. Lay slice of cheese on EACH half(that's the glue). Top one half with onions, mushrooms, and jalapenos. Top the other half with tomatoes. When bread is toasted, place side with tomatoes on top of side with mushroom, onions and jalapenos. Place on serving plate and cut in half!!
The great thing is that you can add ANYTHING that you want. We made this last month and didn't have any jalapenos, so we used banana pepper. You could also use a fancy cheese, but we always just use the kids' cheese:) I had something similar to this at one of our favorite local restaurants...B says mine is better:)

2 comments:

Mel said...

This looks awesome! We will definitely try this.

wirrek said...

I do love grilled cheese. That is one of the pluses of having kids in my opinion.