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Weary of Fish on Friday? Try Gourmet Grilled Cheese Instead
Give grilled cheese the gourmet treatment to add interest to the last weeks of Lenten meals.
Since Ash Wednesday, the arrival of Lent, meatless Fridays are back. For the past few weeks, countless plates of fish and meatless spaghetti have been served. While I look forward to Lenten fish fries I must admit after a few weeks my enthusiasm has waned. Looking for an alternative to fish I've rediscovered an old childhood favorite, grilled cheese. Crisp, brown and oozing with a variety of cheeses, today’s grilled cheese sandwich is far from the sandwich served with tomato soup in the school cafeteria. Grilled cheese has become trendy and downright gourmet, appearing on menus as melts, flat-breads or disguised as toasted cheese crostini. And while the classic American Grilled Cheese built on Wonder Bread remains the sentimental favorite…
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Kim
9:07 am on Tuesday, July 17, 2012
We switched to Meatless Mondays last fall, with few complaints (aside from the diehard carnivore teenaged boy). Pinterest is a great resource for finding and collecting Meatless Monday receipes. I've suggested we add Vegan Vednesdays, but not much success there yet... more ›