Grilled cheese on the Food Network - you'd expect that to only be the purview of How to Boil Water, wouldn't you? Au contraire. Everyone from the perky Rachael Ray to the bombastic Emeril Lagasse has cooked up their own version of the grilled cheese sandwich for their adoring audiences. Want to make a sandwich in honor of your fave food star? Here's a few to try:
- Rachael Ray cooks up an Italian grilled cheese sandwich with fresh mozzarella, tomatoes and basil; she serves hers with sausage, beans and broccoli rabe soup.
- In another episode, she makes grilled cheese three ways: havarti and tomato on pumpernickel; sharp cheddar, ham and apple on whole grain; and gruyere, spinach and artichoke hearts on crusty white bread.
- Emeril makes "baby" sandwiches with mascarpone, cream cheese and chives on brioche, then serves them with a complex tomato soup flavored with prosciutto.
- But that's not all! He takes it up a notch (sorry, I had to) with mini sandwiches of brioche, Chicory Farms Desoto cheese, and white truffle oil. He serves it with "baby ramp and new potato soup."
- Bobby Flay grills his sandwiches over the open flame and stuffs them with fontina, red peppers, arugula and artichoke hearts. They're served with a Nicoise-olive mayonnaise.
- Flay also does an Italian interpretation of bruschetta on the grill with goat cheese, Monterey Jack, and oregano.
- Michael Chiarello has the most creative interpretation; he takes fresh mozzarella balls and chopped prosciutto, wraps them in romaine and stacks them on skewers before grilling.
- Gordon Elliott of Follow That Food shows us a wild menu of sharp cheddar sandwiches with "braised and roasted roma tomatoes and green zebra gazpacho."
- Finally, Bob Blumer of Surreal Gourmet gives us a "dessertwich" of raisin bread, stilton, and pear, served with port.

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8-29-2005 @12:53PM nbcaffeine said... I was hard pressed to find this, as it wasnt listed on the food network's site or, even as recepies on the good eats fan page, but Alton brown had a good late night grilled cheese section at the end of his first cheese episode:
http://www.goodeatsfanpage.com/Season2/Cheese/CheeseTranscript.htm
Listed down in scene 8. Simple, just the way I like my grilled cheese
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8-30-2005 @2:13AM eski said... Awesome, thanks for the link. AB pwns :)
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