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Grilled Cheese, Please! 50 Scrumptious Grilled Cheese Recipes (& a giveaway!)

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Grilled Cheese, Please!

by Laura Werlin

Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing

Publication Date: March 2011

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Featured Recipe: Chips and Guacamole Grilled Cheese

We’re starting our summer cookbook giveaways! But first, about this scrumptious book, filled with grilled cheese recipes:

Oooey, gooey ribbons of delectable melted cheese sandwiched between butter-crisped slices of sourdough, wheat, rye, and even focaccia and croissant, combined with favorite foods such as bacon, pequillo peppers, guacamole, seasonal veggies, caramelized onions, pears, herbs, and so much more — what is there not to love about the modern grilled cheese? Inside Grilled Cheese, Please!, award-winning cheese expert Laura Werlin presents 50 recipes that elevate the classic grilled cheese sandwich to a culinary center-of-the-plate meal changer through innovative and delicious recipes such as Brie, Mozzarella, and Pears with Blue Cheese Butter or Sweet-Tart Cheddar and Chorizo on Ciabatta.

The recipes are divided into eight chapters: Just Cheese, Meat and Cheese, Anything Goes, Veggies and Cheese, Global Grilled Cheese, Grilled Cheese on the Go, Regional American Grilled Cheese, and Old Favorites and Modern Side Dishes. Grilled Cheese, Please! features full-color photography, along with sections highlighting the best cooking techniques, melting cheeses, and other “best” grilled cheese insights, as well as a list of restaurants, stands, and mobile trucks across the country where grilled cheese is the focus, not the side dish.

Laura Werlin is the author of four books on the subject of cheese, each of which has been honored with an award, including a James Beard, IACP, and the World Gourmand Award for Best Cheese Book for her classic Great Grilled Cheese.

When I was growing up, I was like many other kids in that I had a very narrow range of culinary favorites: hot dogs, mac & cheese, bologna sandwiches, and grilled cheese. Even to this day, that standard fare can make me irrationally happy. I admit, though, that I generally eat hot dogs only at baseball games and that I don’t remember the last time I had a bologna sandwich (oh wait, yes I do: it was that fried-bologna sandwich at a hospital cafeteria in North Carolina a year ago). These days, gussied-up mac & cheese can be found everywhere, but gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches? Not so much.

So the kinda-grown-up kid in me rejoiced over this cookbook. I dove in to find a recipe to try. Immediately, I decided to stick to my more-traditional tendencies and choose something from the “Just Cheese” chapter, perhaps “Hog Island Grilled Cheese,” made with Gruyere, cheddar, Havarti, and fromage blanc. But I saw “Mozzarella with Crispy Prosciutto and Broccoli Rabe” and thought Hey, healthy veggies! Next I was distracted by “Gruyere and Gorgonzola with Hazelnut Butter” — just look at that photo with the dripping butter… Plus, I adore hazelnuts.

Gruyere and Gorgonzola with Hazelnut Butter - www.cooksandbooksandrecipes.com

Gruyere and Gorgonzola with Hazelnut Butter
Photo credit: Maren Caruso

The Giveaway

Thanks to Andrews McMeel Publishing, one lucky Cooks&Books&Recipes contest participant will receive a copy of Laura Werlin’s Grilled Cheese, Please! 50 Scrumptiously Cheesy Recipes — free!

There are 4 ways to enter the contest:

1. Simply comment here, saying that you want to win a copy of Grilled Cheese, Please!

2. Follow us on Twitter (@Cooks_Books) and then tweet about the contest by copying and pasting the following: Entered to win a copy of Laura Werlin’s new cookbook Grilled Cheese, Please! http://tiny.cc/9ukfb @Cooks_Books #cookbooks #recipes

3. “Like” the Cooks&Books&Recipes Facebook page and leave a comment here to let us know. If you already like us on Facebook, just leave a comment here telling us so.

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[Note: Contest will close on Sunday, June 12, at midnight PST. The winners will be chosen via List Randomizer (www.random.org) and announced that week. The contest is open only to those with U.S. mailing addresses. Sponsor Andrew McMeel Publishing will send the cookbook to the winner.]

UPDATE:

And the winner, as identified by Random.org, is Deana C, who won with her comment below. Congratulations, Deana, and thanks to everyone for entering!

Grilled Cheese Please! (cover) - www.cooksandbooksandrecipes.com

Grilled Cheese Please (cover)
Photo credit: Maren Caruso


 

Ready to cook up some grilled cheese recipes?

Check out this one, for Guacamole Grilled Cheese

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  14. I would love to win a copy of Grilled Cheese, Please! cookbook. I am obsessed with cheese. Thanks so much for the opportunity to enter.

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  29. Grilled cheese sandwiches sure have changed from the time that I was a little kid. Loved the recipe share here and I’d sure love to win a copy! :) Thanks for the opportunity.

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  33. I liked you on FB (alyce poalillo)

    This sounds like a great cookbook-who doesn’t love grilled cheese!

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  36. I want to win a copy of Grilled Cheese, Please! And the funny thing is when I was a kid I hated cheese, now I can’t get enough of it. I love me some “Grilled Cheese” sandwiches.

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  65. I LOVE Grilled Cheese….Had one specially made for my meal at my wedding!!! It’s my staple food and makes me happy!!!

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  76. I would love to win this because grilled cheese sandwiches are one of my favorite foods. I didn’t even like them until I met my husband, and he taught me the “art” of making a basic “kid’s” cheese sandwich, with Kraft cheese. After I tried his I loved them!

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  82. I’d love to win the cookbook, it looks great and I love to try new things!!! I became fan on Facebook,

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  106. I love grilled cheese and have a habit of putting other stuff into grilled cheese sandwiches to change things up and see what is good.

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  109. I would love to win a copy of Grilled Cheese, Please! please!  We all love grilled cheese.  Hoping to expand the kind we’ve tried.

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  117. Wow, even the one recipe posted blew my mind and my palate. I would love to receive this copy of Grilled Cheese, Please!.

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