Creamy tomato soup with a hot and gooey grilled cheese sandwich may be the ultimate wintertime lunch, and it's one we're always eager to enjoy, so we were tickled to see this take on it: Homemade tomato soup with little crunchy bites of grilled cheese sandwich on top.
This idea comes from reader Sherri who says:
When my kids couldn't fathom dipping their toasted grilled cheese sandwich into tomato soup and I had an inexplicable need to get them to enjoy one of my pleasures, I decided to break it all down into small bites. I'm big into soup-scaping as it can distract my young ones from the fact that they're eating pulverized vegetables. Calling the mini grilled cheese "croutons" would be an acceptable idea to them. And let's face it, the kids like anything mini.
Forget kids — we'll take anything mini and cute like this too!
• Get the recipe and read more at Sherri's blog: Roasted tomato soup & grilled cheese croutons at Crunchtime
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(Image: Sherri of Crunchtime)
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Hey neat! Wait a minute...isn't this a grilled cheese sandwhich cut into small pieces? ಠ_ಠ
Oh! That sounds really good!
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Um...these were posted on Closet Cooking 10 days ago too
http://www.closetcooking.com/2011/11/grilled-cheese-croutons.html
Cute :)
I have been doing this since I was about 4 (okay, maybe I tore the sandwich instead of cutting ... but still). Should have written a blog post.
A couple of years ago, I was attending a sales meeting for the company I work for in Yosemite. They brought out a late afternoon snack of tomato soup with mini grilled cheese sandwiches, warm cookies and ice cold milk...it was brilliant. It was cold and snowing outside and we snacked on them like it was the best food ever created...all of us 30-60 somethings felt like we were nurtured children!
This has got to be the best thing ever!!
i think i will stick to dipping, although its cute. I usually cut my grilled cheese into long strips to dip into the soup!
I think this is evil genius... now I can have what I love but pretend I didn't eat an entire grilled cheese!
*g*
i actually first learned about grilled cheese croutons here! i am surprised the auto content generator didn't bring it up at the bottom: http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/soup-recipe-vegetarian-split-pea-soup-with-grilled-cheese-croutons-132464