Wow, it has been a MINUTE since I've done this! Thank you, Blogger, for simply having a "new post" link when I go to my blog to make it easy on me.
I recently created an Instagram account for our little dog because he is constantly hovering by anyone preparing food in our kitchen, so I decided to combine cooking and recipes with dog pics. I'm still working on how to best provide links for the recipes I show, so while I get that figured out I thought the easiest way to start would be directing anyone interested here, and I can provide a link (or the recipe) to whatever the post is.
Interested in following along with this new endeavor? Give us a follow on Insta at Sous Chef Jeff!
Here's Jefferson aka Sous Chef Jeff in all his cuteness...
So, with all of that being said and introduced, here we go! My 16 year old son recently introduced me to a YouTube channel,
Binging With Babish, and I've kind of been watching it incessantly, sometimes with my son and sometimes on my own. He had seen this grilled cheese video and thought we should try it sometime. He was going to make it with me, but high school life got in the way, so I was on my own.
Instead of copying and pasting, I'm just giving you the links.
Binging with Babish: Grilled Cheese Deluxe inspired by Regular Show on the Babish website
This was definitely a tasty grilled cheese and one I would make again for sure. I did make a few mistakes I would change next time...
- On the video he puts the cheese into a ramekin to solidify and cool. The recipe calls for spreading it on a cookie sheet to make slices. I was having a struggle with plastic wrap for the cookie sheet, so I opted for a container. I recommend using a cookie sheet if you want the cheese to set faster...basic science stuff here, but it took awhile for the big chunk o' cheese in the container to cool because it was so dense...which meant we actually had these the next night for dinner because the cheese wasn't set in time. I would have prepped it earlier in the day to avoid this, but at the time I thought my son was going to help me with it, so I was waiting for him to get home from school and sports practice.
- Once the cheese was cool, and I took it out to slice it, I ended up slicing it way too thick. Thinner is better if you want an epic cheese pull when you cut the sandwich.
- I used brioche bread because I thought that would be delicious, but I think next time I'd stick with a regular white sandwich bread, like Pepperidge Farm's. That's my go-to white bread for sandwiches that require white bread (really white bread is the only option for things like pimento cheese and meatloaf sandwiches, don't you think?). The brioche was still good, just not what I was looking for with this. The end result actually reminded me a lot of a Sonic grilled cheese, which by no means was a bad thing.
Here's my cheese blob after I took it out of the container for slicing. I cut it in half widthwise and then cut slices from the smaller pieces.
And the finished sandwich!
