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
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY you lovebirds <3
Happy anniversary!
Love this–Happy anniversary!
Happy anniversary! xo
Awwww happy anniversary you two! You guys are a beautiful couple and such wonderful people. And PS I love this sandwich LOL.
yay yay yay!
Happy Anniversary! How fun that it’s at the same time as Valentine’s Day. I have never heard of putting onion rings in a grilled cheese! I suppose they are used in other sandwiches and burgers, so why not. I love using my panini press for grilled cheeses!
Love it. Congrats you two. Here’s to another 17. XD
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Happy Anniversary and I remember the cake pops – wow, time flies! I have been married 12 and we don’t have any food traditions but I wish we did. Need to start! Congrats you two on such a successful, wonderful, and loving partnership. It’s a joy to see you two interact, too 🙂
Mmm…that looks good. Happy Anniversary!
I love this post so much. HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, you crazy kids!
I’m wondering if 9:14pm is too late for one of these babies…
Aww, happy anniversary! My husband and I are celebrating our 10 year dating anniversary this week (and 5yrs married later this June)! Love the idea of a hot mess sandwich. Enjoy,enjoy, enjoy!
This looks fabulous! your story sound so sweet 🙂
Happy anniversary, you two!! You’re still as fresh faced as you were 17 years ago.