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    FRIDAY FOLLIES: The Cheesiest and the Choicest

    By Ramona on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 9:12am | Politics, Humor & Satire

     

    My pal Jan started this yesterday on Facebook with a "Hooray!  Hooray!  It's Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day".  I'm shocked that I didn't know about GCSD.  I love those things!  But when Jan crabbed about her favorite sammich getting the recognition it so richly deserves for only one day, I wondered what I could do to make her feel better.

    Here it is!

     

     

    Now there's a sandwich.  But the best part is that Grilled Cheese gets a whole month!  They even get a whole website!

     Or two:  grilledshane has a site that brags "A Grilled Cheese no longer has to be white bread and American cheese". Okay, but we all agree a Grilled Cheese sandwich should be mostly cheese, right?.  Otherwise it's not a Grilled Cheese sandwich, it's a grilled stuff sandwich. (Try and remember that when you're busy re-inventing these things.)

      An outfit in L.A called The Grilled Cheese Truck (big yellow trucks serving up GCS) set aside an hour on April Fool's Day to give away grilled cheese sandwiches at Beverly Hills Porsche.  Fun!  But, ha ha, the joke's on us--this from the L.A Weekly:

     It can be fun shvitzing in line while waiting for your meal, but it's also nice to have a table, chair, and maybe even some utensils to enjoy with your food. Mark Gold, chef-owner of Eva Restaurant, and Dave Danhi, co-owner of The Grilled Cheese Truck, are offering four- and five-course grilled cheese pairing menus ($35-$50) on Tuesday, April 5th. Depending on which option you choose, there will be a truffled mac and cheese melt, and Gold's butter poached lobster. Wine pairing is $20 extra.

     Oh, man!  Those crazy kids!  But if that's not enough for you, there's this:

     

     

    It just seems to go on and on. . .

     But speaking of things cheesy and running on, I guess it's no secret that Donald Trump is thinking of becoming president.  He's looking into ways to do it without wasting time campaigning and/or waiting for votes, so in the event he figures it out and worms his way into the Oval Office, click here for a preview of the person we'll be hailing as chief.  (Sorry, embed disabled.)   

     Shudder. . .I don't know why I put that in here.  Honestly.

    Oh, wait. . . just had to add this to my homage to fromage:  Got this from Wonkette:  Sarah Palin will be pelted with cheese curds in Wisconsin on Saturday.  Cheeseheads attack!

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     Time for the sublime.  Eric Whitacre's amazing virtual choir performing "Sleep". (2000 voices strong from 58 countries:)

     

     

    (I found this in an Op Ed News article by Rob Kall called A Bottom-Up-Virtual Choir.  He has links to other videos by and about Whitacre here. What an incredible accomplishment.) 

    And finally, to further lift your spirits:  the power of words.

     

    And the power of silence:

     

    Cartoon of the Week:

     

    Thanks to Mike Keefe, The Denver Post

     

     

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    Comments

    Ramona, I am honored that my fb post made it into your column! And thrilled to learn about GCS MONTH!!!!

    I'll share another great recipe: it's called "Toad in the Hole."

    Tear a 50 cent- piece sized hole into the center of a piece of bread. Butter both sides of the bread and place on a hot skillet. Put a dab of butter in the center of the hole and crack an egg into it. When the bottom side of the bread and egg are brown, flip it. Cook a couple more minutes, and voila! Tasty Toad in the Hole.


    by CVille Dem on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 9:47am

    My pleasure, friend. 

    Toad in the Hole. . .sounds great, but

    Where's the CHEESE??  Undecided


    by Ramona on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 9:57am

    Isn't that a Croque Monsieur?

    I know, I'm a communist.


    by Michael Maiello on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 10:22am

    No. Croque has mornay sauce on top. That would be a great improvement in the toad though, with the added benefit that it has cheese in it!

    by CVille Dem on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 12:19pm

    So now a French idea would be an improvement, eh?  Commernist!


    by Michael Maiello on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 1:31pm

    You know, Dester, I really think I AM a communist. A bit of a socialist at least. So thanks for the compliment. PS Takes one to know one!

    by CVille Dem on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 2:32pm

    My grandma came over from the old country at the turn of the other century and learned to make apple strudels then figured out how to use the same recipe to make feta cheese strudel. During the holiday seasons, there were always plenty of apple strudel  around. Unfortunately, when she died, the recipe for the fete chese strudel went with her. No one had the touch on how to make them the way she did.

    Now I'll read your blog.


    by Beetlejuice on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 10:08am

    Love strudel. . .was it anything like this?  http://easterneuropeancuisine.com/cheese-strudel-placinta-cu-branza/


    by Ramona on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 10:37am

    She, Oma and Opa and the rest of my great aunts and uncles got out of Croatia about 5 to 10 years before the out break of WWI so Romania isn't too far away from the old borders back then. From the picture on the url you gave, that vaguely looks familar. I'll have to it out and see if it works. Thanks for the tip!


    by Beetlejuice on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 2:02pm

    I have not had a grilled cheese sandwich for a year and I got one frying as I write this!


    by Richard Day on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 12:41pm

    How fun Ramona! My boys just told me about the Darth Vader Grilled Cheese Sandwich. Apparently it is when you accidently cook it too long when you flip it and it burns.

    Now it has a "dark side".


    by mageduley on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 2:25pm

    ahahahahahahahahhhhh.  That's funny.  The dark side.   hahahahahahhaha


    by wabby on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 6:37pm

    I always hated those dark side grilled cheeses.  Now I know why. . .

     


    by Ramona on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 9:44pm


    by Richard Day on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 6:24pm

    Most people don't know this, but the real reason that George Foreman invented his famous grill was, in fact, to bring perfectly grilled cheese sandwiches  to men and women and boys and girls of all ages throughout the world.  I know this to be true, because I had one last night for dinner. I didn't even know that April is the month of this savory delight, this grilled splendor, this sandwich of bread and cheese and butter, yes, the grilled cheese sandwich, the greatest comfort food of them all.

    Of course, as Passover approaches, for some the whole matzoh and cheese thing gets old fairly quickly. . .if you know what I mean.


    by Bruce Levine on Sat, 04/16/2011 - 11:22am