grilled cheese appreciation week: fontina tuesday
Fontina is a flexible cheese—by which I mean that kind of friend who rolls with time changes in plans and adapts beautifully to almost any situation.
Between thick slices of sourdough, with sautéed shallots, here is Tuesday night dinner—
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Posted Tuesday, April 28th, 2009, 8:07 pm * Filed in Food, Photography, Tribute. * Tags: appreciation, cheese, cooking, fontina, Food, grilled, kitchen, kristen, kthread, month, sourdough, taylor, week. Follow responses through the RSS 2.0 feed. Leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
April 28th, 2009 at 11:46 pm
I’m not the biggest fan of cheese, but grilled cheese, especially sophisticated, grown-up cheese like fontina, will always have a special place in my heart.
April 29th, 2009 at 9:37 am
I believe there’s an earlier kthread cooks segment on tomato soup that would pair quite nicely with this grilled fontina sandwich. your dinner last night looks far more appetizing than my whole wheat tortilla rollups with almond butter. so dry.
April 29th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Ben, what a good idea—here’s that kthread cooks episode with tomato soup.
And, we use whole wheat in today’s celebratory sandwich, but there is cheese as well as butter :)
What’s your favorite grilled cheese? I remember we used to make classic cheddar quite a bit—
April 29th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Yeah, I would have to say that classic cheddar is my favorite, but of course I wouldn’t be averse to sampling the fontina:) Kristen, you would absolutely have adored Doug Mao’s talk last week on Wallace Stevens and utopia; among other reasons, including his being impeccably dressed, he quoted a line from “The Lady Eve” that might very well serve as title of our next Chinese New Year celebration: “The fish was a poem.” Apparently Doug and his boyfriend now invoke the line whenever their cookery takes a piscine turn.
April 29th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
Mica, the fontina told me it loves you back.
Ben, I so missed that particular party this year. We’re holding that as a firm date on our calendars on one of our coasts, and I think it serves as a title and the front of the (letterpressed) invitations, yes?
Maybe fontina could be incorporated in a July 4th event? A very literal interpretation of grilled cheese (we might do better with halloumi, but details later)…
April 29th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
p.s. Mica, we’ll need you at the piscine celebration as well, please—