A week ago the folks and I traveled to the great city of Pittsburgh and the Strip District for a min-vacation. For the first time, I went to the Strip with grilled cheese on the mind. With many bakeries selling fresh out of the oven bread, it was a perfect place to purchase bread for… [ Read More ]
Grilled Cheese Please Review & Gruyere and Gorgonzola w/Hazelnut Butter Grilled Cheese
When The Christian Science Monitor volunteered to send me a copy of Laura Werlin‘s new grilled cheese cookbook, grilled cheese please, in turn for a review, I asked where do I sign. Seemed like a no brainer to me. The last time I wrote a book review was probably sometime in grade school for some… [ Read More ]
Martha Stewart’s ‘Grown-Up Grilled Cheese Sandwiches’
Who would have guessed Martha Stewart would know how to cook an awesome grilled cheese sandwich let alone multiple yummy grilled cheese sandwiches? Definitely not me. Thanks to padgett hoke, I stumbled on Ms. Stewart’s recipes (and awesome photos), both vegetarian and carnivorous. With me being Kosher, I have focused on the non-meat recipes, but… [ Read More ]
NY Times’ Greens & Mushrooms Panini
I stumble across a nice amount of grilled cheese recipes on the Internet but normally read them and then close the browser tab never looking back. This was not the case with NYtimes.com’s Greens and Mushroom Panini. The recipe calls for kale, chard, turnip greens or mustard greens, none of which I have eaten let alone… [ Read More ]
Staging: Learning the Food Industry From the Inside
As I have been writing recently, I am now knee deep into the restaurant industry after leaving my webmaster position. Right now, that simply means me working full-time at the Cafe @ Nordstrom. I am trying to learn as much as I can there as well as gain outside perspectives within the food industry. Last… [ Read More ]
Grilled Spinach & Goat Cheese Croissant
This week, I decided that I was going to call AOL’s bluff and see if they really knew grilled cheese sandwiches. I was about to put them to the test. I decided that I was going to follow one of AOL’s recipes that I wrote about in a previous entry. Ever since I started this… [ Read More ]









