Kyle Thomas

The Website of Kyle Thomas (KyleWith)

The Mac and Grilled Cheese Sandwich

I had this idea awhile ago to make this sandwich but then it occured to my while making it that a local street food vender, Wiseguy Foods, mught have a similar sandwich but anyways.

This bad boy is a combination of traditional Kraft Dinner or Macaroni and Cheese (with ham added to it) with a Grilled Cheese Sandwich. It is pretty easy to make.

First thing I did was make the mac and cheese and added the ham. I then sliced to thick pieces of my homemade bread and buttered one side of each piece. Slapped some mac and cheese in between and let it grill on low.

The Mac n Grilled Cheese

You have to make sure the mac and cheese is thick enough it wont fall apart. This sure does taste good. Dip it in a bit of BBQ sauce and you are golden pony boy.

How to make homemade pesto, my way

Don’t have a food processor, well that is alright by me, because I didn’t need one. After finding a recipe online for an Italian Grilled Cheese, which consisted of making your own pesto, I was determined to do just that. Over the week I slowly gathered the ingredients the blog post told me to get.

This is what I got:

  • 3/4 Cup Basil Leaves
  • 1/4 Cup Oregano Leaves
  • 2-3 tablespoons Olive Oil
  • 1/4 Cup Walnuts
  • 1 clove of Garlic
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/8 teaspoon pepper

Finally I decided I am going to make this pesto and it is going to be good, then I hit the speed bump. Recipe calls for putting all this stuff in the food processor and blending it. That was it, only problem being, I didn’t have a food processor and I didn’t want to go by one. Come to think of it though, there are other things i could use one for, but I digress. I wasn’t going to give up though, I Googled around to see if anyone had written about making pesto without a processor, sure enough I found someone who had. It isn’t overly complicated to figure out how to do, but I wanted to confirm.

Homemade Pesto What I had to do was chop everything, finely. As finely as I possible could and as I did that mix it as much as I could in a bowl. I rotated through ingredients to make sure the pesto was being mixed properly, or it gave me the reinsurance it was. While mixing in the ingredients I was also adding in parts of the olive oil to moisten up the mix. Finally once all the ingredients were in the small bowl I once again beat the living crap out of it to make sure it was mixed and also crushed up enough.

At this point I proceeded to taste test it. It actually turned out pretty good. I did find though that it was rather garlicy, as well as salty. I would cut back on both of those next time.

Homemade PestoI wasn’t done yet though. I smeared the pesto on a slice of bread with thick sliced of mozzarella cheese and baby tomatoes and threw it all in a frying pan to grill. By the way, if you also happen to have a Jamie Oliver fry pan like I do, be warned when you heat them up, they retain heat very well. I nearly burnt one side of my sandwich.

Homemade PestoOf course then the only other thing to do is enjoy it… or clean up the mess you made.