Open-Face Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Plan Z Phase: This is a Z3.5 (ZReboot 3.5) recipe.

Serving Size: Serves 1

Ingredients:

Cheese options:  You can really use just about any melt-able cheese you want but here’s a list of some of my favorites:

• Cheddar, swiss, emmenthaler provolone, boursin, gruyere, pepper jack
• a sliced, ripe tomato
• onion slices, raw or sautéed
• Other basic ideas:  avocado slices, pre-cooked bacon, guacamole, mustard, mayo, thousand island dressing, coleslaw from the deli. You know this list can go on forever and as far as your culinary imagination will take you.
• butter for your bread

Standard assembly and baking instructions:

Preheat oven to 400 degrees.

First thing I do is fry my bacon to a nice crisp and set that aside. I also sauté a few onion slices for my husband’s sandwich. I get things like that done ahead so I can assemble and bake the sandwiches in an organized fashion.

I melt a few tablespoons of butter (depends on how many sandwiches I’m making). Spread a smear of butter on one side of the bread. Then I take out a large sauté pan and brown the bread on the buttered side. Transfer them, butter side down to a cookie sheet.

Let cool just long enough so I can handle them. Then I put on any kind of smear I want.  My husband gets his mustard. I smeared some boursin cheese on mine.

Put on sliced items. I added the tomatoes to mine and the onions and tomatoes to his. Put on one layer of cheese. Pop them in the oven until these items are hot. That might take about 10 minutes max. Then I add the bacon and another layer of cheese. Pop them back in the oven til the top layer of cheese melts. I find if I try to do all of that in one trip to the oven the top cheese will melt off so doing it in two stages is a good idea.

Remove them from the cookie sheet, put on a plate and eat.

Enjoy!

Cheers,