The cheese that started the experiments with Grilled Cheese Sandwiches - Carr Valley's Menage. If you missed them, here are Grilled Cheese #1 and Grilled Cheese #2. Enjoying the Menage before dinner one evening, the complex, grassy flavors combined with the creamy texture inspired this thought - What would this be like as a grilled [...]
Tag: Artisan Cheeses
Grilled Cheese Sandwich #2
The Second of a Three Part series. (Part One here) This grilled cheese was created for my youngest daughter. It begins with bacon; Nueske's smoked bacon. The extra slices from a Sunday morning breakfast inspired my youngest daughter to request a BLT grilled cheese. The tomato component was easy enough - adapting an oven-roasted tomato recipe [...]
Grilled Cheese Sandwich #1
With Thomas Keller's sage advice to consider the grilled cheese "a blank canvas", we share three recent creations, each in separate posts. Our first begins with a unique cheddar, Deer Creek's Vat 17, which is a specialty cheese produced for, and distributed by, the folks at The Artisan Cheese Exchange. Chris and Julie Gentine founded [...]
Reflections on Sauerbraten
Inspiration can come from anywhere. At a recent used-book sale, I stumbled across this 1936 publication by Culinary Arts Press of the "Pennsylvania Dutch Cook Book: Fine Old Recipes" and decided it was time to try a traditional Sauerbraten which I had been considering for some time. Here is the recipe: I started with a [...]
New Restaurants Added – Grand Rapids, MI
Let me tell you this – the Backwoods Bastard is definitely one of the finest brews I have ever had. Complex, lingering, hauntingly good. It just may be the best brew in Grand Rapids, MI, and given that Grand Rapids has been named Beer City USA in a poll run by the guru of home [...]
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