Sandwich #2 and Wind
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 @ 1:33pm. Category: General, Reviews.Bread: Rainbow White
Cheese: Borden American
Condiments: Grey Poupon Dijon, butter
Cooking Instructions: lay bread pieces in melted butter, then assemble sandwich and cook at the 3.5 mark on the range until cheese is gooey.
Verdict: Extremely good grilled cheese sandwich! I miss the tomatoes, though. Usually I put tomatoes on my grilled cheese but I was out, so I decided to try mustard after hearing how good it is from random Internet strangers over the years. Nobody I know in person has ever put mustard on their grilled cheese sandwich. The sandwich went very well with the tomato soup I was having, so mustard will be a standard grilled cheese topping for me from now on.
WIND
So, like, it’s windy. Windy enough that the National Weather Service wants us all to exercise caution if we’re a young child walking or biking to school. When I was in kindergarten it was fun to walk against the gusts of wind when a front came through. My father once told me to put rocks in my pockets so the wind wouldn’t blow me away, and I did that for about a year before my mother told me it wouldn’t happen. I was a lightweight, literally— I was only 35 or so pounds at 5 years and didn’t hit 45 until sometime in my 7th year— but not light enough to need rocks in my pockets when playing outdoors.
Today, though. Today I totally recommend pockets full of rocks for young ones outside. The wind is gusting to over 40 MPH. The cold front that came through last night is really doing its best to keep me indoors.
I had all manner of errands I was going to get accomplished today. Errands that would have taken me outdoors. I woke up early enough that I was proud of myself for doing it (9:30! AM!) but then found that the water was turned off for plumbing repairs. I slept until it was back on (about 11:30am) and then went about my day. However, part of my day is checking the weather. The temperatures and the high winds are really making me reconsider going outside. Sure, I’ll be in a car for most of it, but one of my errands involves getting a picture taken and we all know how vain I can be about my hair (well, how vain I can be when it’s convenient, and it’s very convenient today to be very vain about my hair).
So tomorrow I’ll run around downtown and get all manners of errands done, including mailing my Secret Santa gifts. I should have pictures of my painstakingly handcrafted gifts up soon.
Or maybe it’ll end up happening on Friday. Friday I’m going to eat lunch at the old lab and pick up a copy of my transcript, which will need to be mailed too. Maybe everything will just get done on Friday, when the weather is supposed to be much milder.
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Sunbeam | 15-Nov-06 at 3:49 pm | Permalink
Ooooh . . . mustard on grilled cheese . . . I will definitely have to try that!
You know, I saw the “gusts up to 40mph” and I almost laughed — and then remembered that you live in Flatland, USA (or thereabouts).
A “real” storm here (Western Washington) has gusts at 50+mph, the biggest storms (here in the Puget Sound) often reaching 60 to 70. But we have all these steep hills and 100ft trees to change the trajectory. I would imagine sheer winds at 40mph would probably have a greater effect on someone’s footing than a 50mph gust here trying to blow around the hills and trees.
It sure is fun to walk into those gusts, though. :) I’m with you on that!
Sunbeam | 15-Nov-06 at 3:54 pm | Permalink
Sorry — I didn’t want to sound like I was bragging. I reread it and it kind of came off a little snotty.
I had just found the comment funny, because 40mph winds are normal for our area this time of year, and it makes people from other states (especially the flatter ones) wonder how we still have trees and buildings standing. :)
You would probably have a good laugh at our version of a “tornado” though — of which we’ve only had two or three in the past, oh, 20 years? :)
effika | 15-Nov-06 at 7:30 pm | Permalink
It got up to over 50MPH sometime during the night. I’m still not used to living in the flatter part of the state– I’m originally from the part with hills and trees. I didn’t think it was going to be that bad, either. :-)
Yeah, the winds were VERY sheer, which is a lot different from having high winds with hills. Hills make things a lot easier to take. Oklahoma’s windy in general, but usually we don’t get sustained winds above 35 MPH for so long. When there’s nothing to block the winds they get pretty nasty.
Jason Clark | 15-Nov-06 at 9:51 pm | Permalink
My favorite grilled cheese uses Loraine Swiss instead of American, tomato and/or bacon optional depending on my mood and available forage in the fridge.
However, a super easy way to improve any grilled cheese: instead of melting the butter, spread it on the bread (you may need to soften slightly if this is real butter). Then, before you lay the bread in the pan, sprinkle on a healthy coat of finely grated parmesan cheese (even the stuff in the green can is good for this) and shake off the excess. If you used enough butter, you should have a nice coating of parmesan. Now, lay the buttered-and-parmesan-coated bread butter side down in a warmed (medium heat) pan (nonstick is nice, or well seasoned cast iron), assemble cheese on top, and prep the other piece of bread the same way and lay it on top. Flip when side one is GBD (Golden Brown and Delicious).
As the butter melts, the parmesan melts and then gets toasty… Oh My Word is it ever good.
Andi | 15-Nov-06 at 10:52 pm | Permalink
That parmesan idea sounds tasty.
We had very high winds in Central Texas today too, the news said they were up to 52mph. I had to drive across town for class and literally felt like my car was going to be blown off the road. This was especially the case when on highway overpasses and when I went across a bridge at the widest part of the river that separates North and South Austin.
Sunbeam | 16-Nov-06 at 2:44 am | Permalink
It looks like, after all is said and done, that we had sustained winds of 40mph today, with gusts up to 66mph. That time of year again! It’s DEFINITELY November! :)