Get that Strog ready...

[susandennis]

It's a dark and cold-ish rainy rainy day and I just remembered it's also Wednesday. Beef Stroganoff night at 13 Coins and I still have $$ on that gift card I bought last year. Dinner has now been planned.

My new top came out perfectly. Just exactly what I wanted. Not too bad for an old bed sheet and a lap blanket. I picked up the lap blanket at Goodwill a long time ago when I needed red fleece for an accent and decided to use something else. It turned out to be perfect for this.



While I sewing I was listening to a podcast where some millennials were talking about grilled cheese sandwiches. One of them mentioned that she had seen, in the New York Times, a recipe that called for mayo instead of butter. Spreading the outside of your cheese sandwich with mayo and using it, instead of butter, to grill the sandwich. The millennials were horrified which was amusing. But, I thought, why not? mayo is just oil and lemon and a little egg.

So I tried it. Interesting. Definitely easier than butter. Mayo is so much easier to get onto the bread evenly - especially when it's cold and so the butter is cold. It fried up nicely and evenly. I have a tendency to burn grilled cheese because the butter warms up so quickly on my induction stove top - it burns before the cheese melts if I'm not very careful. The mayo didn't burn at all. It was a lovely color with a nice, satisfying crunch.

I did miss the richness of the buttery fry. But, it was pretty tasty.

The problem was the afterglow. The smell of fried mayo lingers a long time and is not delightful. So that was my last cheese sandwich grilled in mayo.

The sandwich and the shirt seemed to have taken the whole day. Well, there were some internet rabbit hole situations... I think 13 Coins will be an early dinner. I'm starving and I have TV to watch.

Comments

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

Glad to read this info on the mayo grilled cheese.  Not sure what he was reading but husband was flipping around online a couple days ago and saw that idea and asked me to do that next time i make him a grilled cheese.   I'll do it, but be prepared for the smell. I could also take the George Foreman grill outside and make it on that and leave the smell outside...

[susandennis]

doing it outside would be a genius way to do it! good thinking. i'll be interested to hear what you guys think.

[dr98emd.livejournal.com]

The shirt is fab!!

[susandennis]

Thanks! I'm really pleased with it. Especially after the recent fails.

[awakenyourfaith.livejournal.com]

Your new top looks great!

[susandennis]

thanks!

[brigitte lichtenberger-fenz (from livejournal.com)]

What a nice, great shirt! Would love to wear it too.

[meathiel]

I really admire people who can sew. I never learnt and I'm usually too impatient for fiddly things anyway.

[zoefruitcake.livejournal.com]

I am baffled by the naming of grilled cheese sandwich when it is fried not grilled!

[maju01.livejournal.com]

The shirt is beautiful, but I can't quite believe that the green plaid was a bedsheet.

[susandennis]

Thanks! And, yep, it sure was. I actually got two plaid flannel sheets that day but the other one was not as good looking and it got eaten up in fails.

Sue from London

[(Anonymous)]

I love the outfit Susan hope you post a selfie when you wear it.

[lostincandyrain.livejournal.com]

I am having a hard time imagining the smell of fried mayo... But I am glad you mentioned it, because the idea of the smell of fried mayo is now preventing me from retrying your experiments. Mayo instead of butter does sound like an intriguing idea.

Love the shirt!