{"id":837,"date":"2020-10-04T21:59:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/?p=837"},"modified":"2020-10-04T21:59:52","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T21:59:52","slug":"the-trashiest-tastiest-toastie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/2020\/10\/04\/the-trashiest-tastiest-toastie\/","title":{"rendered":"The trashiest, tastiest toastie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This week\u2019s recipe partially feels like a cheat. After all, it\u2019s just a grilled cheese sandwich with a few extras. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s been a long year and I needed some comfort food. Besides, it *is* made with a few additions that make it at least a little unlike any grilled cheese I\u2019ve made before, starting with coating the outside in mayonnaise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chicken cheese toastie ingredients.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Before I get to any additional weirdness, though, I want to explain how I came to make this recipe to begin with. It\u2019s a fun story time, I promise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came across a click-baity article a couple months ago that was about the kind of conspiracy theory I can get behind, one that is quite harmless and mostly meaningless. That is, the theory<\/a> that the Nando\u2019s brand medium peri peri sauce is in fact spicier than its hot variety. I\u2019ve long been a fan of peri peri sauce, as it\u2019s a not-too-hot hot sauce for my tastes and its extremely flavorful beyond just spicy. And Nando\u2019s is the brand I typically buy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I went ahead and bought a bottle of both and conducted a taste test with some quite tasty chicken wings. My sweetie, who had not seen which was which when I placed it on the plate, was fooled into thinking the medium was the hot sauce. While I could not likewise do a blind taste test, I shared his opinion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wings, however, did not use up all the sauce and we had two bottles (actually four, because I also sampled some other varieties) in our fridge, looking for an excuse to be used. So, I perused the recipe booklet that came with the bottles and couldn\u2019t resist the toastie (read: grilled cheese) recipe. It had chicken, peri peri, cheese, and then was supposed to be coated in peri peri-based mayonnaise; while I didn\u2019t have the Nando\u2019s brand mayonnaise, I did have some powdered peri peri lying around, so I mixed it together with mayonnaise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The result was more or less what I expected: spicy grilled cheese with chicken. And a lot of filling for two sammies. Which means, it was a frickin\u2019 delight! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mayonnaise cooked the outside a little too well, but I should have turned the stove down when the first side came up a bit blackened. Otherwise, though, I loved every unhealthy bite. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Slightly burnt but the tastiest toastie I’ve ever made. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what I did, following the booklet recipe other than faking the \u201cperinaise\u201d: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n