Grilled cheese sandwiches show up on the lunch menu, not frequently but regularly, at our house. Barbecue chicken grilled sandwiches – a whole new level of lunch goodness! It is also a very versatile recipe, easily customized to your family’s taste. Make your own delicious barbecue pulled chicken by following the steps above. The sauce will cook into the chicken so your sandwich will have all the chicken and enough sauce to give flavor, but not drip. You can make the chicken ahead of time and refrigerate until time to warm and add to the sandwich. (See note below.) I recently found out you can also buy packaged garlic butter. If you can’t find it, make your own by stirring about half a teaspoon of garlic powder into softened butter (15 seconds in the microwave) until it is ... [Read More]
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Monte Cristo Sandwich
The Monte Cristo sandwich is based on a similar sandwich called Croque Monsieuer – basically a grilled cheese sandwich. When it appeared in American cookbooks in the 1930’s, it was known as French sandwich. Then someone came up with the idea of combining those two “French” dishes – French sandwich and French toast – into a Cheese Dream Sandwich. The idea of serving it with jelly came from the French Toast connection. King’s Restaurants in Nebraska carried the idea further by deep frying the sandwich and calling it a Frenchee. But it’s real claim to fame was in the mid Sixties when it appeared in Disney’s Cajun restaurant where it was called -- ta da -- the Monte Cristo Sandwich. And here I thought it had been around since one of the King Louis' or at least Napoleon! Now forget ... [Read More]
