Sorry for the late notice, but if you live in Seattle and like grilled cheese sandwiches, there’s an event in Seattle with grilled cheese sandwiches that you should know about. (Apologies to Sol Tucker.)
It’s tomorrow, Thursday, May 17, from 5pm to 9pm in the bar at Union, 1st and Union, downtown Seattle. Chef Ethan Stowell will be making eight different sandwiches from Laura Werlin’s book, Great Grilled Cheese. Werlin will be on hand to sign books. (Contrary to what I posted earlier, her other books will not be for sale at the event, but obviously she’ll sign them if you bring them in.)
Each sandwich will come with a beer pairing, for $8. If you’re not into beer, I’m sure there will be wine or a la carte options. Here are some samples:
Cheesy Ga**sh**ouse Egg Sandwich featuring Beecher’s Raw Milk Flagship
Wrasslers XXXX Dry Stout, Porterhouse
Salami & Cheese featuring Beecher’s Just Jack
Zwaanend’ale, Dogfish Head
Grilled Goat Cheese with Tapenade featuring Port Madison Goat
Celtic Angel, Serafijn
Roasted Beef with Onion Jam & Rogue River Blue
Meantime Scotch Ale
Goat Cheese & Honey on Raisin Bread featuring Beecher’s Fromage Blanc with Honey
Cassisona, Birrifico Italiano
Laurie, Iris, and I will be there early. Come on down and eat sandwiches.
Argh! The one night I have to work this week! I wish I could be there.
let’s move to seATtle, i said.
i make MOvies, he said.
stupid living in los angeles! how many samwiches will you keep me from???
So, the recipe in Laura’s book is called Cheesy Gashouse Egg Sandwich (I guess we all assumed that “gabouse” is some French word so exotic we had never heard of it) and it’s fantastic. Iris took one bite and said, “I want to make THIS!”
The roast beef sandwich was accompanied by a side of possibly the best potato salad I’ve ever tasted.