Grilled Cheese Fail

Check out this new Friendly's "sandwich." EW!


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Dunkin Donuts Grilled Cheese?

it's true! dunkin donuts is now serving a grilled cheese. it's not your typical grilled cheese, however. this sandwich is panini pressed flatbread. it's very light for a grilled cheese, which is nice when you're looking for a quick lunch or a less buttery sandwich. the bread is flaky, yet stable with crispy edges and golden bumps. yum! the cheeses are a combination of american, jack and swiss, which makes me think kim won't be trying it! i stopped in for a coffee this morning and bought the sandwich for lunch at the same time. it held up very nicely for lunch. i put it in the fridge this morning and then reheated it by toaster oven. i don't know if it was my subconscious or not, but maybe there was a tiny underlying pastry taste? the calories were not awful for a grilled cheese either, weighing in at 380. but, hey, calorie counting is not the point of this blog! $2.99 at any dunkin donuts. enjoy!

A Friendly's Original...

ok. so, i haven't posted since i considered writing a post titled: "illed cheese" due to an overly greasy sandwich from the overlea diner. in their defense, they typically make a perfect grilled cheese. this one just hung out in the butter a little too long, i think. blah. can't even think about it!

last night i willingly jumped back on my wagon. we went to friendly's for dinner and dessert. though it took us 2 hours to eat our meal, they really do make a good sandwich. i'm a big fan of sourdough. actually, i have a really distinct memory from childhood about friendly's grilled cheese sandwiches. whenever we would go out for a night on the town at friendly's with our grandparents, i, of course, would order the grilled cheese from the kid's menu. suddenly, i no longer fit into the kid's menu demographic and had to order the same sandwich from the regular menu. the sandwich came out, and it was very different. it was NOT cut into four little squares, but cut only in half and it was on a different kind of bread. sourdough. i rejected it at first, but by the end of the meal, i really dug it. now it's one of my faves. who would have thought friendly's of all places could open one's view on a new type of bread? a cultural experience, right there in the hear of pasadena.

in any case, last night's sandwich was excellent. not too greasy, lightly golden and with the perfect amount of cheese. the photo above is directly from their menu, which, (and i swore i wouldn't interject my design critiques into this blog) is really nicely designed. the fold and assembly of the menu is a different story.

next month is NATIONAL GRILLED CHEESE MONTH! i'm hoping maybe martha stewart or the food network will give us lots of great sandwich fodder.

Throwdown with Bobby Flay

I'm currently watching a Grilled Cheese throwdown on the Food Network! Bobby is taking on the owners of The Pop Shop in New Jersey. Evidently they are known for their many versions of our favorite sandwich. As I was looking through their website I came across some very exciting information... April is NATIONAL GRILLED CHEESE MONTH! Oh how exciting! They celebrate it every year with lots of different events. Here, check it out....

Romilos, Severna Park, MD...

Cheesy goodness. Romilo's is a greek restaurant in a strip mall in Severna Park, Maryland. Though, a little greasy, Romilo's had the perfect fried crust. I went with the old standby, American on white this time. I know that Romilo's is another one of Kim's faves. The bread was the perfect thickness and the cheese was melted to perfection, as you can see. I have to say, the butter was a tad bit overwhelming on this one. It's a must to have a soda with it to cut the grease down.

The fries on the side were excellent, though also a bit greasy. There was a pickle that came with it too that was yummy as well.

$50 grilled cheese...

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no matter how you make it, think the one thing we can all appreciate about a grilled cheese is that for roughly $8 you can make somewhere in the neighborhood of 12 sandwiches. up the cost of one sandwich to $50, the novelty slips through your fingers.

ok...my co-worker kim told me about this first thing this morning. i just finished watching it. cheese, fontina, yummy. bread, WOW, so thick, yummy, but mushrooms??!!! i cannot think of anything more foul than mushrooms, yes, even truffles. get your fungus off my GRILLED CHEESE! rrr.

Boo-ulverad Diner

What you see here is the worst grilled cheese I have ever come across. Though in the picture it looks delicious, it was not so. I DO NOT recommend getting one at the Boulevard Diner in Dundalk. My beloved sandwich was placed on a plate with a leaking pickle that was set in a container of cole slaw. The cole slaw was then dumped over and it's juices were running all over my poor sandwich. Cole slaw juice + crispy bread = soggy, gross sandwich. This was not the end of my sandwich experience. I spent most of my meal picking off the soggy parts of the bread AND the hardened, stale cheese that was used to make the sandwich. Umm, GROSS! I thought it was really hard to screw up a grilled cheese, but they sure did a great job of it.