Sometimes in life, you just need a GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH (with fresh Italian Basil)

This week, we’re cooking a comfort food stable for me here at La Fortezza. This grilled cheese sandwich includes my special home-made pesto – it is super easy to whip up a batch of this and it lasts ages!

PESTO RECIPE:

– 1 cup of basil leaves and soft stems
– 1/4 cup of pine nuts
– 1 clove of garlic
– 3/4 cup of olive oil
– 2 tbsp of Parmigiano Reggiano

Use a mortar pestle to combine the ingredients together until a smooth loose pesto forms, or blend together for no more than 1 minute.

For the grilled cheese sandwich, I use shop-bought white sliced bread, slices of edam cheese, and fry in a covered pan until golden on both sides, flipping half way through. I then let the sandwich sit in the pan, off the heat, to let the cheese melt through.

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Chapters:

00:00 – Picking basil from the garden
01:16 – Creating pesto
05:52 – Assembling the sandwich
06:44 – Cooking the sandwich
08:10 – Eating the sandwich

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