This week there are four questions about grilled cheese.
1. How do you make grilled cheese?I butter the inside and outside of two slices of bread and put 2 slices of cheese in between the bread. Put a pat of butter in a Teflon coated frying pan. Put the sandwich in the pan on medium high heat. Turn after one side is browned and then brown the other side. Cook a few seconds in the microwave to melt the cheese.
2. What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever put on your grilled cheese sandwich and did you like it? I have never deviated from the butter, bread and cheese version.
3. What’s your favorite bread for grilled cheese? Oat bread
4. Have you ever tried to make a grilled cheese sandwich using a shortcut way? (Think iron, car engine, you get the picture.)
I can remember thinking, when my children were little and underfoot a lot, it would be fun to think of some sort of invention to cook lunch while I was busy with the kids. You know, it would do the cooking so I could spend some fun time with my kids. As a kid, I watched The Jetsons cartoon. They had Rosie the Robot who worked with engine driven pumps and could turn out dinner in a jiffy. I have never actually cooked grilled cheese in any way except in a skillet or the grill. It would be nice to have a robot to do the cooking!
I believe in mental health days. That is when you do something just because it sounds like fun. It is even better when it turns out to be so much fun that you cannot wait to go back.
Yesterday, mom and I went with a group from church to Fair Oaks Farms. Fair Oaks Farms is located in a portion of Indiana that is well suited for cows because corn grows well there. In fact, the farm covers approximately 19,000 acres. Fair Oaks Farms is a commercial dairy operation that has opened parts of its process as exhibits so that people like me can understand how a dairy farm works. This dairy is so modernized with its computer generated milking machines that I would not have been surprised to see Asus labeling on its components. It was awesome.
I had just read the book Food, Inc. so it was nice to see that not every farm is like the ones described in that book. This farm is so clean that the cows even look happy. LOL
There are interactive exhibits where kids learn all about cows, including the fact that they have 4 stomachs. They can play on a giant air jumping pillow and climb a giant milk bottle to test their climbing skills.
Cheese is made right there at the farm. That was interesting. Of course we were able to buy cheese from their store and they also sold ice cream. It was delicious.
For me, the most interesting part of the experience was watching a live birth. Two mama cows were in the birthing barn when we arrived. One had just had her calf and the other was in the process of delivering. I just wanted to help her!
