The Best Grilled Cheese EVER!!!

So, my brother-on-law gave me a great cookbook for my birthday - Thomas Keller's Bouchon. The first recipe we tried was a grilled cheese sandwich. No I'm not kidding!!

It was awesome!!! We made Corque-Madame, Sauce Mornay OR Grilled Ham and Cheese with a fried egg and Mornay sauce.

First, we made homemade Brioche bread - DELICIOUS.

It's a slightly sweet, airy, moist, buttery bread that just melts in your mouth. We're thinking about making it again this weekend just to keep in the freezer for when we want it. Side note: this bread is fun to make. It gets a ton of air bubbles/gas pockets, so when you knead it the texture is much different from regular breads.


Next, I worked on the Mornay sauce (Swiss cheese bechamel sauce) while Dave built the sandwiches and fried the eggs. I admit, the Mornay sauce is a little thick - added to much roux. However, it still tasted good!


We used Virgina ham slices and good Swiss cheese per the recipe. In order to perfectly toast the sandwiches, it was a combination of saute pan and oven toasting. We fried the egg separately, placed it on top of each sandwich and put it in the oven for a few minutes. When it was finished, we pulled it out, added the Mornay sauce and chowed down.



It tasted so good!! We're not huge Swiss cheese fans, so we were surprised at how much we liked it. All of the flavors complimented each other so nicely. I highly recommend trying it sometime!!!