
Possibly just made one of the best sandwiches ever. Was trying to figure out something different I could do with my extra chili yesterday and went through several iterations of possibilities. On noodles, with eggs, on toast. The last one stuck with me a bit so I pondered it over a little more. My thoughts led me to the wondrous grilled cheese and eureka! I’m a fairly good expert at making grilled cheeses so adding a little chili to the mix shouldn’t be too difficult. While I’m sure a grilled chili cheese sandwich isn’t a culinary breakthrough it was still fun thinking it up on my own.
So today I set upon making this chili cheese sandwich. Started off normally with two 3/4” slices of bread, melted a tbsp of butter in a nonstick pan, then stuck one side of one slice into the melt butter and set it aside. Put the other slice into the butter which will become the base of the sandwich. Spooned some already warmed up leftover chili onto the bread and topped that with some fresh cut onions. Then topped with two 1/4” slices of colby jack cheese and placed the other slice butter side up on top. Added a tsp. of water to the pan to help the cheese melt faster then covered with a lid. After the bottom side got nice and crispy but not burnt, I had to flip the sandwich over. Ended up using a spatula to lift the sandwich out of the pan, inverted the pan onto the sandwich, then in one motion flipped the sandwich and pan at the same time. Nothing spilled out so it worked pretty well. Added another dash of water then covered again. Once the cheese was melted and the bread properly toasted it was done! Wish I had some awesome pictures to show it off, but sadly I do not. It was definitely very, very tasty even taking into account that the chili wasn’t my best. Will make again for sure.
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