The Ultimate Grilled Cheese, sounds intriguing, does it not? As your mind tries to wrap itself around the multiple possibilities, you can not prepare yourself with the magnitude of flavors that will be going on your taste buds when you bite into this sandwich. This grilled cheese takes a little bit of time but it is well worth the time and the effort!

Ingredients For the Ultimate Grilled Cheese:

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 small Vidalia onion, sliced
• 8 ounces portabella mushrooms, sliced
• 2 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 teaspoon thyme, chopped
• 1/4 cup white wine or chicken broth
  
• salt and pepper to taste
• 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
• 2 slices of Fontina cheese
• 1/2 cup Parmigiano Reggiano, grated
• 4 slices of favorite bread
• butter to spread on the slices of bread

How To Put It Together:

Melt the butter and heat the oil in a pan over medium heat.

Add the Vidalia onion and sauté until tender, about 5-7 minutes still on medium heat.

Add the garlic and thyme and sauté until fragrant, about a minute of cooking time.

Add the portabella mushrooms and sauté until the start to caramelized and turn golden brown, about 10-15 minutes of cooking time on medium heat. Make sure you stir the contents of the pan so it will not stick.

Add the wine, deglaze the pan and cook until most of the liquid has evaporated, about 2-3 minutes of cooking time.

Season with salt and pepper, add the parsley and remove from heat and let cool a bit.

Mix the grated Parmigiano Reggiano into the mushrooms and onion mixture.

Butter one side of each slice of bread and place 2 in the pan buttered side down. Add Fontina cheese to the non-buttered side of bread.

Top each with 1/2 of the mushroom mixture and another piece of Fontina cheese for extra cheesy goodness.  Finally, add the remaining slices of bread with the buttered side up.

Grill until the cheese has melted and the bread is golden brown, about 2-4 minutes per side.

Plate and serve to your family as a delicious treat for lunch. I promise you will not be going back to the same dull way of making grilled cheeses.

By the time the finished product is plated and sitting in front of your hungry family, your house will have all the aromas of your labor! Ultimate Grilled Cheese sandwiches will be a long time favorite and its fan base will keep on growing! I hope everyone enjoys their dish!

 (recipe has been adapted by closetcooking.com)

This simple recipe of Cinnamon Roll Waffles will take you back to your childhood of waking up and smelling your mom or dad cooking cinnamon rolls in the morning. I always would think, “What a way to roll out of bed in the morning”!  All the children would be sitting around the table, rubbing their eyes while waiting and wanting some of that gooey sweetness. Yes, what a life! I could wake up smelling this cooking everyday! I love the smell of cinnamon and sugar!!

Three simple ingredients to make Cinnamon Roll Waffles:

• 1 to 2 cans of your favorite brand of Cinnamon Rolls
• some non stick spray
• 1 waffle maker

Get your waffle iron hot and then spray with the non stick spray. Place, depending on the size of the waffle maker, 2 biscuits per square. Close your lid of the waffle iron and wait until the light on top of the iron indicates that the waffles are done. Open iron and removing the Cinnamon Roll Waffles and plate them. You can either put regular syrup on them or heat the icing that came with it in the microwave for about 10-15 seconds. You have to make sure the icing is melted enough to glaze the top of your waffles giving them that extra goodness! The smell from the waffle iron alone will have you think you are going to heaven!

This is an extremely easy way to make a Saturday breakfast fun and delicious for the family! Cinnamon Roll Waffles will be a hit in almost every household! I know my family enjoyed them when they had them this weekend! I hope you enjoy this simple breakfast or treat! So this coming weekend when you want to surprise the family with an awesome treat to eat, remember Cinnamon Roll Waffles!

Do you ever want something fresh and light for a hot summer day? Try this awesome salad, Insalata Caprese. Insalata meaning: an Italian-style salad and Caprese meaning: denoting a salad of fresh mozzarella, tomatoes, and basil. You will not go wrong with having something so healthy and delicious!

• 1 large ripe tomato
• 1 sprig of fresh basil
• 1/4 lb fresh mozzarella cheese
• freshly ground black pepper to taste
• fine sea salt to taste
• extra virgin olive oil
• fresh spinach and romaine lettuce
• sliced almonds (optional garnish)

On a large plate, add your fresh greens on the bottom of the plate. Place the alternating and overlapping the tomato slices, mozzarella cheese slices on the greens. Drizzle with light olive oil and season with sea salt and pepper. Drizzle Balsamic Vinegar on top of tomato and mozzarella slices. Add fresh sliced basil and almonds to garnish.

Enjoy this lovely Insalata Caprese with a bit good Chardonnay and good company. You have a perfect afternoon sitting in the shade, chatting with the girls and having a great meal. Enjoy!

(this recipe was adapted from Allrecipes.com)

Sweet N Spicy Wings would be great to serve with any type of dip, sour cream and veggie that you would like. Serve the wings to your family and friends as finger foods at a football game, get together or a birthday party! I believe these little beauties will be a huge hit!!

Ingredients:

• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 2  lbs chicken drumlets
• 2 tsp crushed red pepper flakes
• 2 (12 ounce) cans carbonated lemon-lime beverage
• 1 (4 1/2 ounce) can chopped green chilies, drained
• 1 (1 1/4 ounce) package taco seasoning mix
• Blue Cheese dressing
• Blue Cheese crumbles
• Avocado

In large nonstick skillet, heat olive oil over medium heat. Add chicken wings; sprinkle with pepper flakes. Cook uncovered 5 to 8 minutes while stirring occasionally, until browned. Drain oil from your skillet. Stir in the carbonated beverage, green chilies and taco seasoning mix. Increase heat to medium-high to high and cook uncovered 15 minutes while stirring occasionally. Make sure you stir because they will stick and burn to the bottom of the pan.

Reduce heat to medium heat. Cook 5 to 10 minutes while stirring frequently, until the chicken drumlets are completely glazed. Pull off the heat and let the drumlets/wings sit for about 5 minutes.  While a small amount of glaze will remain in the skillet, plate your wings and add the extra glaze on top.

I like to serve my wings with avocado, blue cheese dressing or ranch. Sour cream is also good to dip your wings into.

This is great little treat for you to serve at game time parties, birthday parties or just because! The wings will give a sweeter taste with a kick and still make you go back for more! I hope you enjoy Sweet N Spicy Wings! My family loves them!