grilled cheese

Today’s Sandwich: “Chicken Nacho” Grilled Cheese [Homemade]

by Malcolm Bedell January 12, 2012

Today’s sandwich is the “Chicken Nacho” Grilled Cheese. It combines shredded chicken, guacamole, pickled jalapenos, and marble jack cheese on sourdough bread. Notes: We’re getting buried under our first major snow of the season, which derailed my plans to, I dunno, go outside to buy a sandwich. I was forced to make do with what [...]

3 comments Read the full article →

Pressed Ham, Pear and Gruyere Sandwiches with Tomato Orange Soup

by Jillian Bedell September 23, 2011

As much as we love living near Portland, Maine, we have a fondness and much respect for our sister coastal city, 3,197 miles out west. I spent this past Sunday at High Mountain Hall in Camden, doing Nia. Nia is a movement technique that incorporates elements of dance, the martial arts and healing practices. It’s [...]

7 comments Read the full article →

Today’s Sandwich: “Jalapeno Popper” Grilled Cheese (Homemade)

by Malcolm Bedell May 6, 2011

With today’s sandwich, I wanted to recreate the flavors of a jalapeno popper, that bar-food staple appetizer. In the restaurant version, jalapeno peppers are stuffed with cream cheese, battered, and deep fried. It’s a perfectly spicy, creamy accompaniment to, say, a dozen pints of beer. I felt like a direct translation of jalapeno poppers into [...]

21 comments Read the full article →

Today’s Sandwich: Thomas Keller’s “Late Night BLT with Fried Egg and Cheese” (Homemade)

by Malcolm Bedell April 21, 2011

I have the extraordinary ability to watch the film “Spanglish,” James L. Brooks’ 2004 tale of a Mexican immigrant mother and daughter who must cope with assimilation into a new culture, set in a wealthy family vacation home in Malibu, inhabited by a neurotic wife, her laid-back, award-winning chef husband, and their precocious children, over [...]

5 comments Read the full article →