The Sweet Spot: Apple Cheddar Sandwich

Monday, October 10, 2011

For FTP’s Apple Challenge Month, I give you the apple cheddar sandwich—

I’m a big fan of grilled cheese sandwiches in general (House in Media, PA is one of my faves for this reason—six types of grilled cheese? Oh, yeah), but I tend to keep it simple. A little bread, some decent cheese, and I’m a happy girl. So I forget sometimes that adding apple to a cheese toasty is a gorgeous thing. It’s especially good when the apples and the cheese are local.

For this sandwich I combined thin slices of a freshly picked Fuji apple from Linvilla Orchards in Media with shavings of a local cheddar picked up at 320 Market Cafe in Swarthmore. Even the butter is stuff I made myself from locally produced milk. Sadly, the bread is not local.

The heat of the pan heats the apple, but doesn’t make it mushy, and the whole thing becomes this gooey, warm, and sweet treat. Just talking about it makes me want to go make another one.

While any melty cheese will do when making apple grilled cheese, cheddar and brie are my favorites.