A grilled cheese can be truly luxurious
Georgeanne Brennan, an American with a longtime fondness for French cuisine, included this luxury version of the grilled cheese sandwich in her new cookbook, La Vie Rustic: Cooking and Living in the French Style (Simon & Schuster, 2017).
Besides using French cheese, she fills her tall and succulent mealin-one sandwich with roasted red peppers and Dijon mustard. Brennan says you can call it a croque monsieur even though you have skipped the usual ham and béchamel sauce.
In her collection of more than 100 recipes, Brennan encourages cooking the best ingredients without religiously following a recipe.
The foods of Provence, where she owns property, and California, her other home, are blended in this fine book about seasonal cooking. Anecdotes and cooking tips make it a warming read from one of America’s finest food writers.