Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Quarantine Edition: Cook From Home

It has been about 2 weeks since we have been encouraged to stay at home, and so I have been doing a lot more cooking than usual.  My lunch today was a grilled cheese sandwich made with some pretty stale Angelic Bakehouse Sprouted Whole Grain Wheat Bread, the last of my Sartori Montamore Cheddar, and Woeber's Reserve honey mustard, which I think I got in one of those corporate holiday gift baskets several years ago.  It has a "best by" date of January 2017 on the bottle, but does honey or mustard really go bad?


I am sorry to brag, but I have to be honest and tell you that I cooked this sandwich perfectly:  browned equally on both sides with melted butter, slowly grilled so the usually crumbly Montamore cheese melted beautifully.  The sweet honey mustard balanced the tanginess of the cheese.  I served it to myself with a sliced Honeycrisp apple and a glass of sparkly water from my Sodastream.  There was pretty nice ambiance in my kitchen too; no crowds, no noise, no wait.  Perhaps a little too much cat fur on the countertops to pass official health code ... but unlike Covid-19, that never killed anybody.