YUMMY TREATS!!!

Everything I bake turns into mushy unpalatable bricks.

Ingredients:
1 slice of bread
1 slice of cheese

Instructions:
Combine
Stick in microwave for 10 secs

Makes ever so delicious melted cheese on bread. The meal of champions.

Yeah, I thought to myself, "People eat that?!" when I read it too.

Of course, a friend once told me she enjoyed a mayonnaise sandwich as a kid so idk.

IF YOU HAVE NOT TRIED DELICIOUS MELTED CHEESE ON BREAD YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON LIFE

But seriously, haven't you guys ever gone to college? This is like, staple.

author=Neok link=topic=945.msg12841#msg12841 date=1208869786
IF YOU HAVE NOT TRIED DELICIOUS MELTED CHEESE ON BREAD YOU ARE MISSING OUT ON LIFE

But seriously, haven't you guys ever gone to college? This is like, staple.

Yes I have been in college for about 19 years and I have never eaten crap like that. I'm pretty sure that the bread turns out soggy and the cheese turns out half-melted yuck. Maybe you should try making a proper grilled cheese sandwich? I make those all the time.

But I don't know I am not the bachelor college kid sort of guy and more like the quiet fag with an apartment who happens to also attend college kind of guy.

author=Neok link=topic=945.msg12880#msg12880 date=1208888099
Btw, some of us happen not to have that much free time during the school year to fire up a grill when we feel like cheesy bread goodness, mmkay?

I don't know it seems like you have time to post on the forums and it only takes a minute or two to cook something on the stove.

author=Neok link=topic=945.msg13023#msg13023 date=1208976790
Damn, you got me. Looks like I better start making them the proper way. Thanks Brandon, I now see the error of my ways.

You don't need to be sarcastic and mean :( I'm just concerned about your dignity man!

Anyway I don't do any high-level cooking but I can, given the circumstances, explain how to properly cook a cheese sandwich (it is amazing how many people screw this up). I don't want to be a troll!



How to Cook a Cheese Sandwich

You will need:

- 2 Slices of Bread
- 2 Slices of Cheddar Cheese (real cheese guys don't ever eat American cheese singles)
- Butter (use real butter or healthy maragarine made from olive oil)

Process:

- Preheat a frying pan to medium-low heat. The heat is really important or else the sandwich will get ruined. Er on the side of too cool, and not too hot. Buttered bread burns easily.
- Butter both sides of each slice of bread and put the cheese in the middle (duh).
- Cook one side of the sandwich with the pan covered. It is important to cover the pan or the cheese won't melt at an even rate with the browning of the bread.
- Flip the sandwich when one side is golden brown. Cover the sandwich and cook the over side until golden brown.
- Let it cool before you bite into because Jesus it's hot.

Alternative process:

- Put cheese on bread and microwave it. Do this only if you are morbidly obese and/or lazy.



There are three reasons people screw this easy dish up:

- Heat too high. The #1 enemy of cheese sandwiches. You need to cook a sandwich slowly. You can always set it up and play video games for five or ten minutes while you wait for it to heat up.
- American cheese. American cheese is not actually cheese. It's flavored, colored trans fat mixed with gelatin and it is disgusting. It also makes you fat and gives you cancer.
- Margarine. Margarine is saltier than butter and is great for biscuits but not good for frying. If you don't like real butter because it is too fattening, spring to healthy margarine made out of olive oil and not trans-fatty stuff.
- Not buttering both sides of the bread. If you only butter one side, the consistency gets screwed up and some of the bread is gummy. Buttering both sides results in a more flattering, crispy texture.

Meh, I'm just not interested in getting uptight over something so trivial. It's just warm bread and cheese? I can't see how its any more unhealthy than eating a cheese sandwich, unless microwaves toxify it somehow. But since Brandon's so concerned for my image, I'll admit that I haven't actually tried it as much as been told to try it by a buddy of mine (No he's not morbidly obese, actually pretty fit). So for all I know, its not as good as sources claim.

Alright, here's a proper recipe that I actually have made and ate and considered delicious. Okonomiyaki, which is more or less japanese pancakes. Technically, you're suppose to use okonomiyaki flour, so I'm not sure how well it'll hold with other types.

Ingredients: Lettuce, eggs, flour, water, meat, sauce

1. Slice lettuce into minces and pour into a container
2. Add an egg per person you want to serve for (2 eggs for 2 ppl, 3 eggs for 3 ppl, etc)
3. Add flour and water. Mix. If too sticky, add water. If too slippery, add flour
4. After mixed, add meat, and small amounts of sauce.
- Can add most anything here
- Mushrooms
- Sugar (But be careful, b/c sugar burns easy)

1. Heat up a frying pan on low heat (Okonomiyaki's thickness makes it burn easy)
2. Pour vegetable oil in and spread it
3. Pour in mixture
4. Shape into a circle, and press down to decrease thickness
5. Swirl vegetable oil around to cover all parts

6. Continually press down hard with a spatula
7. Use a chopstick to poke multiple holes in the mix to cook more uniformly
8. When bottom is light golden brown, flip quickly and carefully
9. Repeat steps 6-8 until both sides nicely cooked
10. Place onto a plate. Put on minced seaweed, dried fish, dried shrimp, crispy yellow stuff, (whatever seasonings you feel like basically)
11. Top w/ mayonnaise and sauce in a lattice-work pattern
12. Finish w/ ginger sprinkling

Can refridgerate and store for 1 day. Best served hot.