Today I share to story of the Judge's Grilled Cheese I grew up eating after school. Recipes: The Judge's Fried Salami Grilled Cheese www.notanother... (Website Design by: www.kristasdes... )
"if you have a few recipes you are good at, a few to lean on and you are generous enough to share them you may have an impact on someone that lasts forever." This is exactly what I hope to achieve some day! Food deserves to be shared and passed on in my mind.
@@MrOz3lotif you are saying that this quote was taken from some place other than this video I am not sure. This was the quote from the end of this video @ 4:26
Memories of my dad. He used to make something like this for his lunch. Sometimes fried, sometimes cold. But I'd have something too and just pause and maybe talk a bit. RIP Dad. Thanks, Stephen for reminding me of some good times.
I love this channel. I'm from LI and my father is 100% Italian, but my mother is Irish and English. So while there was plenty of Italian food in the house, because my mother is an adventurous cook and we live on LI, it wasn't exactly like Nonna made if you feel me. Watching this channel (and a few others) I have learned all the tips and tricks that elevates Italian food and shared it with my family. Now when I visit home, my mother and I cook together and she learns something from me! It's a great bonding experience that has made me feel closer to my family. No better feeling than when I made a bolognese for the first time and my father said it reminded him of Sundays when he was a kid.
I absolutely love how you talked about context and how this wonderful woman who barely ever made you any food had a huge impact on you with just one simple sandwich. Food does not need to be complex to change a life
Definitely want more stories like this. I have quite a few dishes that hold a special place in my heart for similar reasons. Food really is a beautiful thing
This was a classic growing up in my Italian American household. My mom used to make fried salami and egg sandwiches. I can taste and smell it through the screen.
Thanks for the response! I enjoy recreating some of your recipes and get compliments from family & friends with the outcome, "keep on keepin on!" Bruno from Chitown@_NotAnotherCookingShow
You expressed beautifully the nostalgia one can have for a dish that might not have won any awards but which you hold close to your heart. My late aunt was not a great cook, but she used to fry Hebrew National salami in the pan with a splash of olive oil, get them crispy, and then pour three beaten eggs into the pan and watch them get fluffy. It was the best scrambled eggs and salami I’ve ever had, and I still think about them all the time.
I love the context behind this recipe and video. Cooking and food can be such a wonderful memory. It definitely takes me back to a simpler place in my life.
My best friend in school in the 4th grade lived up the block. Her mom made the best grilled cheese in a cast iron skillet. I’m 44 now & that always remains with me 💛. I will be trying this. Thank you 😊
My thing in Jersey from the morning food truck was Taylor Ham, egg, and cheese, butter, salt, pepper and ketchup. But this is something special and different. Thanks for this one, and I have Taylor Ham and also Genoa Salami in the fridge or freezer.
And easy solution to avoid the salami from “cupping” and to have it lay flat is to cut slits on edges of the salami. It’s a little trick I learned from frying baloney back in the day. 🍳🐷👨🏽🍳😊
spicy genoa salami sliced thin is the greatest thing ever, on its own, on pizza, sandwiches, cooked, or uncooked. beautiful. I don't even eat pepperoni anymore because of it.
Hey bud, Great message at the end of the video. You don't need to be the world's greatest cook, just care about what you're doing and share it with the ones you love. Beautiful message.
My dad taught me to make a fried salami grilled cheese when i was young and have always loved them. I will randomly get a craving and there is no fighting it lol. Personally I always loved them with just the classic gooey nostalgic yellow American, but this looks fantastic too! Looks like I'm picking up Salami on the way home.
This sandwich is my childhood. My dad would always have Genoa salami and American cheese in the house and I’d make it on weekends. I can always go for this sandwich, breakfast lunch dinner or snack
This looks amazing. My dude, use provolone instead and add some italian seasoning. Amazing. I make something similar to this often to try to replicate a small shop I used to get a similar sandwich from.
Toasties!… Albertan here, who’s neighbour is Irish. She pumps us full Irish coffees and toasties (open faced cheese melts, usually tomato, or whatever the fridge has..lol. So I hang with her family and neighbours.. she serves everyone. Usually happens around 2 or 4 am
I had a friend in the 6th grade and one day she invited me to go home with her - we stopped by the ladies' underwear/nighgown factory near our school to say hi to her mom and then we went home to her Nana, who was making fried zucchini blossoms which were something that I'd never had before. Ever. They were amazing. The next memory was of my Dad, who would cook for us sometimes - again, he was not always home but when he was, there was all sorts of magic at the stove. the one I remember most is his way of making burgers, which involved shaking a good amount of kosher salt into a heavy frying pan and while that was heating up, he'd finely chop an onion and mix it in with pepper and chopped beef, make patties and then fry them up in the now red-hot frying pan. I have never had a burger that tasted like that one, EVER - and he'd always serve them on toasted kosher rye.
We have this classic where I live. It's basically a fried mortadella and cheese sandwich. The thing is: it's an OBSCENE amount of mortadella. We build like 5~10 slices of mortadella, then a few slices of cheese in the middle, and then 5~10 more slices on the top. Fry everything and when the cheese is melted and the mortadella super fried, put it inside a very crispy baguette. It's crazy good, but you can die at anytime eating it lol.
Oh man, these days because I’m old, I’d chop those grilled salami slices up. That way the salami doesn’t get eaten in the first bite because it wants to stay one slice lol. Thus guaranteeing salami and cheese in every bite.
That looks amazing, I'm gonna make one ASAP To your point about food bringing people together, I was an unusually athletic white boy in a a mixed area and most of the guys on the football and basketball teams on which I played were from poor areas. I remember 8-10 kids piling in our station wagon back in the day and my Mom would drive them home after practice every day. We were decently well off for the area and my Dad made an adjustable basketball goal and they'd walk for miles to come play all day from sunup until sundown. Around lunchtime, my Mom would make a bunch of hotdogs and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches and we'd all chow down. It wasn't until years later after high school that I ran into some of them and they told me that my Mom and our family saved their lives and that they were eating ketchup on bread at home. Three of them ended up playing D1 basketball and one of them ended up making it to the show and played for the Pirates and Blue Jays for awhile.
Childhood cheese sandwiches, just stay with you. I was friends with the daughter of the TIME TO MAKE THE DONUTS guy, when I was a kid Yes, really. He did a few famous commercials. And, when you went to her house, her dad, was just dad. And he'd whip up sandwiches for all of us. His most famous was his Monte Cristo sammies. Swiss cheese, ham, butter. So yummy. He did grill them too. I think about them to this day, but I was far too young to recall how he made them.
I like to do a similar sandwich. Bakery by me has a really good cheese bread that I like to use and toast both sides. Then fried salami, back bacon, mustard, American cheese slices. Lately I've been shaving some parm in there, or doing a fried parm crust on the outside. Oh man, I'm gonna go make one now.
My godfather/boss never really eats vegetables but him and his wife heard that i make a really good sauteed broccoli dish. I showed him how to make it a couple years ago and he still brings up how much he makes it. I think he eats it more than me at this point.
I would like to see more recepies like that, there are to many over compicated recepies. They look good and taste deliciouses but sometimes u want some easy idea for a meal, so u dont have to wonder where to find some products.
The mom of my best friend in junior high made biscuits and chocolate gravy for us for breakfast when we would sleep over. I thought it was the grossest thing...until I ate it. After that moment, we would beg her to make it for us.
Looks tasty ! Gonna have to try making that. I always thought it was pronounced 'sangwich'...so I asked Alexa to spell sangwich. What the heck! Learn something new every day.
This is crazy! I literally just did this before watching. Lightly fried the salami and rendered it's fat. Then REHEATED a smokey thin sliced chicken breast in that salami fat. Layered them with provolone cheese on grilled bread.
Ohhh hahaha honey, I’ve been making fried bologna sandwiches since I could reach the stove. Lol. Shoot this tho this looks mighty tasty. I’d do half the amount of cheese and use sourdough all day long. For some reason anytime I’ve tried the ol’ mayonnaise in replace of butter it turns out tasting like rancid oil and ruins the entire thing. So I’ll also be going for butter instead. Seems like a great trade off in calories too lol. Thanks for sharing and reminding us of the simple recipe we all have up our sleeves
Reminded me of my late husband and his fried peperoni with scrambled eggs. Before we married the only way that I had heard of using peperoni was on a pizza, but I am Scott/Irish southern girl.
