I loved cheese even as a kid, even though all I had was processed cheese. It was easier to find, cheaper to buy and made pretty darn good sandwiches for an 8 year old. As I grew older though, my taste in cheese became a little more “worldly.” Although admittedly, one of my long-standing guilty pleasures in life is still a thick block of Kraft cheese! I grew up on cheesy toast. It was something we enjoyed on weekends, topped with some spicy green pepper. And pretty soon I made that short leap (or side step?) to grilled cheese sandwiches and I fell in love even more. Since then, I’ve also shared this curried beef grilled cheese sandwich and this bacon grilled cheese sandwich casserole. This one here was the perfect way to make use of my flavour-packed pickled beets. While I have presented this as a grilled cheese here, it works just as well as an open-faced grilled cheese toast as well. This is a truly phenomenal sandwich! Really. Even if you’re not a “beet person,” you have got to try this because the pickled beet makes a huge difference. Go ahead and check out my post on the crunchy balsamic pickled beets recipe here if you’d like, so you know about all those bold and amazing flavours trapped inside the beet pickle. If you like pickles in your sandwich, then you will love this! What takes this sandwich to a whole new level though, are the slices of bread that are slathered with basil parsley butter! I’m not sure you could see it well enough in the pictures, but that basil parsley butter actually melts and infuses the bread with that amazing basil flavour! So you got the soft cheesy center with the tangy, vinegary pickled beet, paired with creamy and tangy goat cheese and the lingering freshness of basil in the beet and the butter infused bread. And what’s the best part of grilled cheese? That stretchy cheesy goodness of course! And that my friends, is how you take something as amazing as a grilled cheese sandwich and make it even better! So what’s your favourite grilled cheese sandwich combo? Don’t forget to sign up for updates by just entering your email address in the subscription box below, so you never miss out on the delicious recipes to come. You can find me on FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, PINTEREST and GOOGLE-PLUS too. I frequently share pictures of recipes to come on the blog plus other awesome recipes I find out there that I want to try. So I hope you do stop by and say hi! 🙂
