>> Hilah: Hey dudes!
I am Hilah and welcome to Hilah Cooking.
Today I am gonna show you a couple of variations on grilled cheese sandwich.
I’ve had a few people ask for that, and I know it’s like so easy, but sometimes
it’s really good to know how to make some awesome variations on some grilled cheese
sandwiches because you just have to time to be making dinner all the time, or maybe sometimes
you just drunk.
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>> Hilah: Okay.
Now, what I like to do is assemble my sandwiches in the pan, so I don’t end up getting butter
all over the damn place, so put a little butter on one side and butter is best if you have
butter, but honestly I have done this with just like some oil in a pan when I’ve been
in a bind.
So butter side down.
I am gonna show you a couple of variations here.
I ‘ve got some cheddar, some sharp cheddar, and some Granny Smith apples, and that’s
good if you want to use like Brie instead of the cheddar, that would also be nice.
Pears are a good fruit to try in here.
You just want to make sure that you cut it real thin, and then when you’re doing a
filled grilled cheese like this where it’s something besides cheese, you want to make
sure too that you layer your filling between the cheese, and then the cheese acts like
a little bit of glue to hold all that biz together, and then on this other one, this
is exciting and new, I am gonna do a little kind of margarita pizza-style deal with just
some fresh mozzarella, and a little bit of tomatoes, also real thin sliced again, and
then I happen to have some fresh basil, so I am gonna use that.
That’ll be most excellent, or however you say that in Italian, and then top that with
that, and then we do the other slices of bread on top of that, and again, just make sure
you put the butter side actually out.
If you want to put like mustard or mayonnaise on them before you cook ‘em, that is good
sometimes too depending on what kind of cheese and filling you are putting in there, and
then the other, the only other thing you need to remember really is to start your grilled
cheeses off on kind of a, kind of a medium heat.
If you cook it over high heat, you are gonna end up with your bread getting toasted before
your cheese is melted, and then by the time your cheese is melted, your bread is all just
burnt to shit, so do it this way over medium and you won’t burn your bread, and then
for this margarita one I am gonna do just a little bit of fresh minced garlic, so then
when we flip this that’s gonna get kind of toasty and it’ll be like a garlic bread
margarita pizza sandwich which is something that Pizza Hut is probably really, really
pissed off they didn't come up with.
So, I have just put a patent on that Pizza Hut, so okay, so you can see the bottom of
the cheese is melted at the bottom layer of cheese, and then this top layer is starting
to get kind of soft, and I am going to go ahead and turn them.
Mmmmmmmm.
I’ve got my big fat one here.
Mmmmmmmmmmm.
I am so excited.
All right, and then the second side is not going to take as long because the cheese is
already warmed up, so maybe just another minute or so.
Mmmmm, smells garlicky.
Okay, we’re ready for these guys.
I am gonna just get them out and put them on my cutting board to cool for a split second
before I cut them up.
All right.
Now you can cut these up however you want.
I am gonna go for triangle quarters.
Okay, awesome, so we’ve got this one here with the stringy mozzarella and some toasted
garlic and basil and tomato, and then I’ve got this one here which is Chris’s favorite
with the cheddar and the Granny Smith apple, and I think I will take a bite of this one.
[crunch] Mmmmmmmmmm.
So nice.
Nothing like a grilled cheese sandwich.
It’s so comforting, and then if you put some like fruit or vegetables in it, then
it’s totally like you’re not really eating junk food, you’re like eating a salad with
cheese and crackers built into it.
That’s how you can think about it.
So, I hope you try these variations.
If you have any other ones that you like to do yourself, any other things you like to
add to a grilled cheese sandwich to make it special or to make it more of a meal, please
leave them in the comments, and we can talk about that.
Thank you so much for watching, and I hope you have a great day!
Bye!
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