Hipster Grilled Cheese [Zack]

Grilled cheese: white bread + American cheese? How predictable.

You should know about real grilled cheese. You should source the best local ingredients possible. Not some big hoyty-toyty supermarket garbage. That's why you need to use ingredients most people haven't heard of.

Real grilled cheese should be constructed with:

• multigrain wheat bread (from the best bakery in town)
• Chimay cheese (made by the Trappist Beer monks in Belgium)
• 2 types of bacon (2 different types of smoked bacon from the Ardennese mountains)
• local honey (found near Brussels on a bike ride - unfortunately I wasn't on my fixed gear)

You'll fry up the bread in some French butter (not local, but it's FRANCE), and then cut the sandwich into ironic mustaches. Serve with a heirloom tomato soup with a spoonful of homemade pesto in it.

You're welcome,
Hipster Zack

Process:

Organize your ingredients.

Fry up the bacon on low heat by starting it in a cold pan.  Cook, turning when the fat starts rendering to brown and crisp it evenly.

Slice your Chimay cheese into circles about 1/4 an inch thick.  Put one layer of cheese down on the bread, add the 2 types of bacon on top.

Add one more layer of cheese (because we're making grilled cheese!), and then drizzle 1T of honey on top.  

Press the top layer of bread down, and start a pad of butter in a pan over medium heat.  Brown both sides of the sandwich in the pan.

Remove the grilled cheese from the pan and grab your Crustache Sandwich Cutter and press it down firmly to cut your bread into fancy mustaches (Thanks Megan!!!)

Serve the hipster sandwich with some heirloom tomato soup and a large spoonful of homemade pesto.

Ingredients:

• multigrain wheat bread (from the best bakery in town)
• Chimay cheese (made by the Trappist Beer monks in Belgium)
• 2 types of bacon (2 different types of smoked bacon from the Ardennese mountains)
• local honey (found near Brussels on a bike ride - unfortunately I wasn't on my fixed gear)

Creativity Options:

• Goat cheese, chives, and bacon
• Gorgonzola, caramelized onions, and steak
• Roasted eggplant, mozzarella, pesto
• Buffalo mozzarella, fried chicken, and hot sauce

There could be a follow-up post with me beer-battering the whole shebang in PBR..... THAT would be hipster.

Song to grill some cheese:  Jamiroquai - Slippin' & Slidin'