Saturday, August 20, 2005

I officially cook....... well grilled cheese.

I made grilled cheese today,and i don't want to brag but it was perfect. For the record this is my first sucessful dinner that didn't involve a delievery man, microwave or waitor. I will let everyone in on how to make it because i don't feel like i should hide the good in my life. Here it goes.... first you turn the stove on a put like a 1/4 in. of butter and swish it around so it becomes liquid ( otherwise known as melting) then you turn the heat on medium but more on the low side of medium , not the high side if medium. the flame shouldn't be flaming more like an even 3/8 in. circle around the metal thing in the middle. Put the bread on with 2 pieces of yellow cheese in the middle and let it slowly cook. With your fingers( there is no reason to use a spatula.... useless instrument) lift the bread up to see if it has turned black by any chance ( if it is black you have gone to far). When the bread is a carmal brown flip the soon to be sandwich over. This is the part where most people can go wrong... you have to turn the heat down a little more because for some reason fire just gets hotter. So let the other side of the grilled cheese simmer ( i have no idea what that means, i have heard it used once in reference to meat once but i think it can be applied to this as well as long as it means leave it alone for a second) until it becomes the same carmel color as the other side. I hope i don't need to repeat the "black -too far" comment. Now you know you are done when you lift the side simmering too see if it is done and some of the cheese drips and burns on the metal cooking basin and makes the kitchen smell like butt. Finally quickly take the sandwich off the "grill", the longer you take getting it off the more it hurts your fingers, and enjoy. I hope i could be of some help.

2 Comments:

Blogger Megyn said...

Congrats Jessye! Grilled Cheese was my first endeaver at cooking too. i ate grilled cheese every day for breakfast, lunch and dinner my senior year. i lost weight too! go figure! haha.

6:49 AM  
Blogger Erin Weaver said...

i wish i could afford bread...then i would make grilled cheese too!

2:21 PM  

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