Oct 01 2008
It’s a toastie and you can’t pretend otherwise
It’s a veritable linguistic feast today!
- Grilled Cheese
- Sandwich Slaw
Grilled cheese, it turns out, is a cheese toastie – if you’re from the United States. (I always thought it was another funny term for cheese on toast, like roasted cheese.) Strangely, there’s no grilling involved in making grilled cheese. Wikipedia also attests that slaw, as a term for coleslaw, is used in the southern US. So this is quite an American dish – in as much as a cheese toastie ever could be.
We normally make our coleslaw with a grater, but this recipe asked for slices, so that’s what I did. But it really wasn’t the Express way. If you tackle this one, just use the damn grater. Frying them on the griddle was fun work, with the sandwiches weighted down with tins of beans in a frying pan. I think we waited slightly too long to turn them, or maybe the griddle was just too hot, because the sandwich had an even well-done-toast colour rather than elegant stripes.
In future I would make this on a bigger scale: big slices of bread, lots of cheese and tomato, and just keep making them until one or other diner admits defeat.
Looks delicious. I love cheese on toast, but have yet to try Nigella’s version. Maybe I’ll give it a go for lunch this weekend.