Cheese Woes

First woe:

I had a brick of marble cheddar in the fridge at work. Yesterday, I took it home because that's where the bread is. This morning, I got to work and realized the cheese was still in my bag. So I had to throw it out. Wah.

Second, and bigger, woe:

Why can't pizza and clean teeth peacefully co-exist? Last night on my way home from work, I decided that I just wanted to chill for the evening. That meant not cooking dinner. So I grabbed a slice of pizza from Pizza Pizza near my house and proceeded to eat it. The cheese on the pizza was so hot that it burned the roof of my mouth. So now my upper-right palette is swollen and extremely tender, which makes it difficult and painful to brush my teeth properly, eat anything that isn't liquid, and even swallow.

Stinkin' cheese.

Chévre!

I like goat's cheese. Especially the cheese from Mariposa Farms here in Ontario. Unbelievably good stuff.

If you see it at your local grocery store (packaged as Celebrity Cheeses), make sure you grab some. Eat it plain. It's an abomination to eat it any way else.

More on Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Someday, I will get around to making a trip to New York City.

And when I do, I will definitely eat here.

As an aside, when it comes to macaroni and cheese, another delicious cheesy food, there is only one place that you should go in the city of Toronto: Lobby Bar. Their mac and cheese is AMAZING. Long elbow macaroni, asiago cheese, and the most gourmet macaroni experience you'll ever have ($11). You'll never eat Kraft Dinner again. Be forewarned, though - Lobby is an extremely pretentious Yorkville locale. They should call themselves "Snobby Bar" (case in point: when making reservations, they require a credit card, which they will charge $50 per person if you don't show up). But it's worth it for the mac 'n cheese. And the brownie with caramelized bananas and pistachio encrusted vanilla ice cream ($8, I think). Yum. And the $12 martinis.

Grill This, Buster!

Yesterday, Peeved Michelle was considering starting a blog about Grilled Cheese Sandwiches. After some deliberation, she decided to start a blog about stuff she would buy if she were rich instead. This got me to thinking. I really, really like grilled cheese sandwiches, and pride myself on my ability to make a really kick-ass good grilled cheese sandwich. I also enjoy finding out what restaurants make grilled cheese sandwiches worth digesting. The two most excellent places in Toronto to get a grilled cheese sandwich:

Fran’s Diner. Except that they closed down all their locations, with the exception of the franchised location on College Street which is a mediocre replica at best. So no more grilled cheese from Fran’s. Try their vegetarian chili, though. And the double chocolate brownie binge.

Indigo Café at Indigo Bookstores. Awesome. Grilled. Cheese. Two large slices of wavy-cut sourdough bread with stringy-melty cheese oozing out the sides. Really grilled, not fried, and the height of perfection of grilled cheese sandwiches. Even better than mine. Except that Indigo recently purchased Chapters bookstore, and with it acquired a standing contract with Starbucks to provide café services. So the Indigo Cafes are all gone, replaced with Seattle’s Worst Coffee. And Starbucks doesn’t sell grilled cheese. And if they did, it would probably cost $17.53, not the lovely $3.99 that Indigo Café charged (and theirs came with chips/salsa or mixed greens!).

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