Little Devil (on horseback) - Bacon Wrapped Dates and Blauschimmel Grilled Cheese

Guess what everybody? I finished grad school FOREVER. Yep, that's right, no more finals, papers, assignments or pop-quizzes for me.  I can't even explain how

So here's what I used in these bad boys...

Ingredients:
 
- ⅕ pound of Blauschimmel cheese
  (or a saga blue brie)
- 4 slices of french bread
- 2 pats of salted butter
- 2 devils on horseback
  (bacon wrapped dates)

So to get the cheese for this sandwich I decided to go to one of my favorite places in Williamsburg the world - Look at those veins!

 Next comes the devils on horseback.  A while ago I went to dinner with an amazing fellow grilled cheese enthusiast -

Then pile on some more of that delicious blue.

And top with another piece of french bread.

Now butter both sides of the sandwiches and heat your pan on medium high.  Because the cheese is already so soft, it will only take a few minutes on each side.  Once they start to crisp up and show that nice, golden brown, and toasty color, flip them and repeat. 

When both sides are crusty, take the grilled cheese out of the skillet and serve!  If you have some spicy mustard on hand I'd definitely recommend dunking them in for an extra zing.

Although this sandwich has a lot going on, each component melts together to form one hell of a grilled cheese.  The sweetness from the date balances out the tartness of the blue, and the smokiness from bacon rounds everything out.  Oh and as for the bread and butter, well I guess we can all agree that they just make everything taste a little bit better.

xoxo,

GCS