My actual cooking experience with grilled cheese is similarly basic, but from the consumption end I've found that the addition of pesto sauce and sauteed onions really makes one tastier.

I don't use a recipe for grilled cheese. It's basically cheese of one kind or another, butter, bread of one kind or another, and a skillet.

Same here. And I'm a Philistine who uses American cheese. (I like the way it melts, and it tastes like my childhood. If I want fancy grilled cheese I can hit up a food truck.)

What's your favourite grilled cheese sandwich recipe?

My love of grilled cheese is endless and varied. The most frequent additions to cheese is usually avocado and/or tomato. Also partial to thin sliced apple or pear. Then again making it into a tuna melt with spicy mustard is darn tasty too. Type of cheese is likewise varied, from as mild as ricotta or brie, to strong swiss or even blue cheese. Too much to love about grilled cheese, or toasted cheese as my family calls them.

Served with soup rounds it off best.

eta: won't find me turning down american cheese either!

Radiology is outsourced like whoa these days, or at least the reading of the x-rays often is. It's true the technicians need to be in the room with you, but they don't rake in the pay. Actually pretty sure radiologists don't anymore either now that their pay scale has been undercut by outsourcing.

oh yum, can I eat at your house, Laura?

And I'm a Philistine who uses American cheese.

::fistbump::

I feel you. I am a bit stuck in my current job situation and have been contemplating becoming an heirloom apple farmer.

I've been wishing I could go into hard cider making. We should get together with Sue and form a business plan. Pity about the whole need for seed money.

What's your favourite grilled cheese sandwich recipe? Like, recipe you have, as opposed to having ordered somewhere?

I like the one from Betty on Top Chef (season 2?). Provolone, monterrey jack, plus sauted mushrooms and onions. White sourdough bread, lots of butter.

I like American on rye with tomato (and lots of butter.)

Amy's grilled cheese is my grilled cheese (although now that I see that she is into the American cheese, not quite. I'm all about the sharp cheddar, although I will mix it up on occasion with more exotic cheeses. I'm not exactly against American, but I'm not partial to it). Toasted cheese sandwiches are a different thing to me, but also a sandwich I quite like. I also like toasted bread with cold cheese in between. And cheese and pickle sandwiches. Bread+cheese+butter=yum.

My father-in-law was a radiologist, although he had to go to med school to become one so I am finding this conversation confusing. He roved from hospital to hospital reading X-rays wherever he was needed on a short-term basis. DH liked to call him an itinerant radiologist.