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BrainBurner  ·  3889 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What have you created this past week?

I made a grilled cheese sandwich for the first time. 21 years old, senior in college. I can cook but I've never gotten around to it. I think it turned out well but I need to practice more, I slightly overcooked it.





BlackBird  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Oooh yeah, grilled cheese sambo's for the win!

Did you put anything inside it (other than cheese)? One of my fave combos is 2 slices of Swiss cheese, one side of bread covered with wholegrain mustard, the other with French; cracked pepper in the middle of the cheese slices, with a squirt of smokey BBQ or Chipotle Tabasco sauce.

BrainBurner  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nope, just bread and cheese. That sounds delicious though, I will have to do some experimenting (and shopping)!

thenewgreen  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't think I could recall my first ever grilled cheese if I tried. It's cool that you know it's your first. Hard to believe you waited 21 years to make that for yourself. Such a nice, and pretty easy, treat to make for ones self.

BrainBurner  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well I've been pampered by my mother's excellent cooking for the first 18 years of my life, and I managed to survive dining hall food for the last couple. I'm much more satisfied making my own food, I can tell you that for certain (at least over dining hall food, Mom's cooking will always win in my book!).

thenewgreen  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My mom didn't cook much. We literally had to fend for ourselves often. This meant learning how to make grilled cheese etc at a young age. It also meant that we had pizza at least once a week and other various forms of fast-food etc.

When I think back on this stuff it pisses me off, especially now that I have my own kid. I would never feed her the garbage I was fed. But then, my folks didn't really know any better. You are lucky that you had a mom that cooked for you.

Now that you've knocked out grilled-cheese, move on to the next cooking project. It really is fun. One of my favorite tags on hubski is #recipes .

BrainBurner  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Interesting tag. There doesn't seem to be much there, but the recipe for banana bread you posted a long time ago is intriguing, banana bread has always been one of my favorites. That may be my next project.