The Homemade “Hot-Mess” Grilled Cheese- An Anniversary Lunch
This hot mess grilled cheese sandwich is loaded with flavor and goodness. Every bite is amazing! 
Hot Mess Grilled Cheese
This is what happens when you’ve shared your life together with someone for 17 years, The Homemade Hot Mess Grilled Cheese. Inspired from this Jack-in-the-Box commercial and our grilled cheese shoot with LA Brea Bakery a few weeks ago. It’s this week, 17 years ago that we had our first conversations about food, gardening and camping together.
So how do we start celebrating? By making a sexy grilled cheese sandwich for lunch.
To celebrate our 17th anniversary, it seemed quite apropos to start off a lunch with a sexy grilled cheese sandwich. But this isn’t just any grilled cheese sandwich. It’s loaded with pepper jack cheese, spicy pickled jalapenos, thick onions rings and really good crusty bread. It’s a sandwich for bad boys and naughty girls, or those daring eaters who don’t care about calories.
This is how we say, “I Love You. Now, let’s eat!”
Loaded with flavor
It’s all homemade, it’s a hot mess and it’s a grilled cheese that’s super decadent, dripping with spice, grease, flavor and love. It’s the week of Valentines and our anniversary that get us in this mind-set to let loose and not take ourselves too seriously. After 17 years of sharing your lives together, it’s crazy culinary times like these that bring us closer. And if it means getting a little messy in the kitchen, well, it’s all worth the pile of dirty dishes.
To laugh out loud, joke around and still love each other regardless of our imperfections is what our purpose is in life.
Last year we made cake pops for our 16th anniversary. This year we made a mess of ourselves with a crumbly, drippy grilled cheese sandwich. What does all this mean? When we hit our 20th year anniversary are we going to go sky-diving?! Oh yes, what a fantastic idea.
In celebration of this week with all those that you love deeply, let’s cook good food, make a mess in the kitchen and join the Hot Mess Club!
Happy Valentine’s Day for everyday,
diane and todd
The "Hot Mess" Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 slices bread
- 3-4 slices pepper jack cheese
- 2 onion rings
- 2 pickled jalapenos
- 1 Tablespoon butter
Instructions
- Butter outside slices of bread. Layer in cheese, onion rings and pickled jalapenos.
- Heat a skillet over medium heat. Grill sandwich on both sides until golden brown and the cheese is nice & melty. Enjoy!
Nutrition Information per Serving
What a fabulous way to celebrate!! Congrats!! we will celebrate 27 years this June! that’s crazy to think about…….but I agree with you “To laugh out loud, joke around and still love each other regardless of our imperfections is what our purpose is in life.”….that’s totally us too!
Wow! 17 years! Happy Anniversary to you guys! I’m loving this sandwich.
Hot Mess omg!! Happy anniversary- what a perfect way to celebrate!
Love the photos! Especially the throwback. Happy Anniversary you two 🙂
What a perfect way to celebrate! I hope it was an amazing anniversary! 🙂
What a happy time and a lovely milestone. Love the shot of you surrounded by loved ones. Very happy anniversary to you both, Todd and Diane!
You two are the best kind of hot mess there is going! Congratulations, and enjoy!!
xoxox
Happy anniversary!! I’m totally thrilled you put onion rings in there. Now I have to try that 😉
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! May you have 100 more, fun,happy, healthy anniversary years ahead!!
Have fun
Super decadent, dripping with spice, grease, flavor and love is a good description of every relationship worth having. Lucky you both! XXOO, T.
happy anniversary!! 17 years… that’s really impressive! And with an expression of love that includes gooey cheese and peppery fried crusty bread concoctions, it seems pretty obvious it’s meant to last in infamy. happy <3 day, too!
This is a good kind of hot mess. I love everything going on in this post!