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Grilled cheese
Dec. 9th, 2023 01:45 amToday is a grilled cheese kind of day. So, open face grilled cheese the way I like it, in our particular oven:
Sourdough sliced bread
medium Tillamook cheddar, shreds
salt
cherry tomatoes
dill
Preheat the oven a bit, on high broil. If you feel like it, toast the underside of the bread.
Two at a time, line up the bread on a small greased or nonstick baking tray so if cheese falls off the bottom of one it falls onto the other.
Cover the bread with cheese shreds, so when it melts there will only be a little bit of uncovered bread. Deploy some sea salt and dill now.
On the top rack, put the tray in. Set the timer for three minutes.
Don't put away the cheese just yet, but start getting out the plate and some tomatoes. Wash and slice about three tiny tomatoes for each slice of bread.
When the one-minute warning sounds, open the oven and rotate the tray halfway.
By the time the timer goes off for real, the cheese should be completely melted, bubbly, and starting to toast in spots. The bread shouldn't be burned unless the oven's been on for a while.
Transfer to the plate (carefully) and arrange the sliced tomatoes on top, wet side up. Carefully salt each tomato a little more. If you have some smoked salt, that would be delicious.
Devour.
Make seconds if the spirit so moves you.
Sourdough sliced bread
medium Tillamook cheddar, shreds
salt
cherry tomatoes
dill
Preheat the oven a bit, on high broil. If you feel like it, toast the underside of the bread.
Two at a time, line up the bread on a small greased or nonstick baking tray so if cheese falls off the bottom of one it falls onto the other.
Cover the bread with cheese shreds, so when it melts there will only be a little bit of uncovered bread. Deploy some sea salt and dill now.
On the top rack, put the tray in. Set the timer for three minutes.
Don't put away the cheese just yet, but start getting out the plate and some tomatoes. Wash and slice about three tiny tomatoes for each slice of bread.
When the one-minute warning sounds, open the oven and rotate the tray halfway.
By the time the timer goes off for real, the cheese should be completely melted, bubbly, and starting to toast in spots. The bread shouldn't be burned unless the oven's been on for a while.
Transfer to the plate (carefully) and arrange the sliced tomatoes on top, wet side up. Carefully salt each tomato a little more. If you have some smoked salt, that would be delicious.
Devour.
Make seconds if the spirit so moves you.
