imagine a different world of grilled cheese.

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Please make sure to head over to last year’s post to read all my thanks for my mother. And happy mother’s day to all the awesome mothers out there in blog land! Have a great day with your family. I will see you back here tomorrow, Monday, with a brand new, exciting blog post!

My trip to the 1st 8th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational turned out to be as much about the grilled cheese sandwich as it was about me personally. My trip to LA, the first trip I have ever taken completely alone, taught me a lot about myself and I plan on reflecting on that new found knowledge here…as well as the Invitational. Read the rest of this entry »

Front of GrilledShane Business Cards

My plane is booked. My hotel room is prepared. I am headed to the 1st 8th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational (and LA) for the first time. It would not make sense for a grilled cheese lovin’ man to miss the Grilled Cheese Invitational. No, I am not competing, at least not this year, but I am judging. (How awesome is that?) Plus, I am going so I can promote this very blog. A little exposure definitely wouldn’t hurt, especially among fellow grilled cheese enthusiasts. Read the rest of this entry »

This past Saturday evening, I attended The Lockview’s First Annual Grilled Cheese Festival with the sous chef and sous chef’s husband. I had heard of The Lockview but never visited nor had I really investigated their menu (PDF). All I knew was that they loved grilled cheese as much as I do so once I was alerted to their First Annual Grilled Cheese Festival, I knew I had to go. Reservations were made and plans were set.

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Recently, I received an email from a visitor who asked a very simple question:

What is your favorite method to cook grilled cheese sandwiches?

I wanted to reply right away but I did not know how to quickly answer the question. There is not an easy way to do so. Read the rest of this entry »

Photo Courtesy: rogue llama

April 24, 2010
12:00pm – 6:00pm
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As I have been writing recently, I am now knee deep into the restaurant industry after leaving my webmaster position. Right now, that simply means me working full-time at the Cafe @ Nordstrom. I am trying to learn as much as I can there as well as gain outside perspectives within the food industry. Last night was my first attempt to truly see a different restaurant from the inside out instead of the outside in. Read the rest of this entry »

A week ago Sunday, I decided, last minute, to create a grilled cheese sandwich. With little time and almost no inspiration, I turned to a book called Great Grilled Cheese by Laura Werlin. That is when things changed. That evening, in my opinion, I cooked a great grilled cheese sandwich and took some of the best pictures of my short blogging career. Read the rest of this entry »

I think you should now either follow me on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook because if you haven’t, you are missing out, thanks to Google Alerts. Read the rest of this entry »

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I thought I would share, with you, some photos of my peppers that are currently growing in our backyard garden. Some of these photos were taken earlier this morning, while the rest were taken sometime this past week. When I have a place of my own, I hope to continue this tradition, with many more fruits, vegetables and herbs. Hopefully, soon, I will be able to pick these guys and enjoy them on one of my newest grilled cheese creations.

These are just basic peppers: Golden Bell, Red, Green and Jalapeño. In the future, I will continue to branch out to the exotic and fancy!

Photograph by Robyn Lee: A perfect example of a grilled cheese sandwich.

I have been trying, not so successfully or hard, to ask the world how they define a grilled cheese sandwich but have had no luck. Now, Serious Eats asks and they seem to have resounding success. Surprised? Nope, neither am I. As their conversation has grown and and grown, and I felt like my voice wouldn’t be heard, I thought I would voice my opinion right here. Plus, I am all for racking up the posts/hits, considering I have had very little posts besides my Sunday Dinners features. Read the rest of this entry »

I hear that today is Mother’s Day and as a son, I should be doing something special for my mother. That is the yearly ritual, right? As if I don’t appreciate my mom the other 364 days of the year, today I am supposed to make sure I display it overtly so all can see. There are cards/e-cards and gift certificates flowing with customer stricken stores reveling in the new foot traffic. Read the rest of this entry »

When I started the I Love Grilled Cheese feature, I thought there would be tons of people to interview, and tons of restuarants doing amazing things with the simple but awesome grilled cheese sandwich. Well, I still think that, I just can’t find them. Googling “grilled cheese restaurant” really yields no usable results. I find that two grilled cheeese restaurants, one in CA and one in NY, have gone out of business. I find CHEDD’s, which I have already interviewed. Melt, check. However, in those results, I don’t see a restaurant that is serving a new grilled cheese sandwich each and everyday, or, a restaurant that is serving a $15 or $30 grilled cheese. I find nothing unique and that is exactly what I want for I Love Grilled Cheese. Read the rest of this entry »