I LOVE hearing about pregnancy cravings. Weird food combos are my jam - unfortunately, I didn't have very interesting pregnancy cravings... just an intense need for anything lemon flavored with my first, and an intense need for mango everything with my second. I feel like I missed out on the fun cravings, and I think that's why I love hearing about everyone else's and living vicariously through that, lol.
hi Beryl - from the UK here - just want to say that cheesy baked beans are so part of our culture that the sandwich with the baked beans seemed totally normal to me, until I saw your reaction! Obviously I'm sure you know about beans on toast - but so many of us also have cheesy beans on toast (with cheddar, not camembert) and in our popular bakery chain, Greggs, you can buy a sausage, bean and cheese melt (which is baked beans, cheese and sausage all encased in puff pastry!) So much luv from the other side of the pond - your vids always bring joy xx
Yesssssss! I'm from the UK too and cheese and baked beans is life! (usually with cheddar but I do just about any cheese). I was so surprised by how surprised she was by that!
Amelia Atkins Ball, wife of railroad engineer Herbert Sandleton Ball. Apparently the chutney is an old family recipe which in the 1830s she started selling at church bazaars to help support herself, her husband, and their seven kids.
I laughed because we have been eating pickles in our grilled cheese for probably 20 years 🤣 Same with adding garlic to it. My grandpa would use mayo, I dont though. It's not a new creation sadly.
Retired chef here... using mayo instead of butter makes your bread super crispy that doesn't go soft. I think heinz beans are boring but I think I'm gunna try BBQ and Ranch beans with cheddar-I think that sounds delicious. I recently inhaled an entire jar of Persian pickles on your recommendation-YES YES YES! So dilly and crunchy! But I'm currently LIVING for kimchee grilled cheese lately! For your guava poppers try using canned croissant dough to make it SUPER easy! Another awesome ep ... thank you, ma'am. 😁😁😁
I love using mayo on my grilled cheese, I also like using Parmesan on top of cheddar in mine. I have seen many people put cheddar cheese on baked beans so it might work.
As someone comming from a country where butter means the real deal I never got soggy bread with butter. Acculy it get nicer looking then the only time I tried mayo. Mayo tasted crap and looked crap.
@AnniCarlsson no one is critisizing butter, Anni. Relax. Mayo is oil, eggs and acid. The bread stays crispier. Mayo is ALSO the real deal - So I disagree with you entirely. Good day!
Yes to pregnancy cravings. My son is 15 but I still eat coleslaw with pickled jalapeños or deli macaroni salad with pickled jalapeños. Just everything pickled.
@Achng-lj9bh Scotland 🙂. Fyi, the international medal league for swearing is, 1) Australia, 2), Ireland, 3) Scotland. So I look upon my Aussie cousins with deep admiration 🤣.
South African here. Best way to make our Mrs Balls chutney grilled cheese is to make it over a braai (barbecue) on a grid to make a 'braai broodjie' (barbecue sandwich). Love the episode!❤
That sounds like an appliance-free way to make an Australian/NZ jaffle! We have jaffle irons, which give that super crispy outside and the original ones would be stuck in a fire for great bbq flavor (now they are fancy sandwich toasters but i still love them 😅)
Just eat the Guava Paste with cheese! ‘Romeo and Juliet’, as we call it here in Brazil. You can also add it in cubes or melted to a simple yellow cake to make it even more delicious! I work at a Dessert Shop and there we have a cake called ‘Giulietta’ which is made with creamy guava paste and demerara sugar and filled with parmesan cheese brigadeiro (you know, that Condensed Milk chocolate goodness, but more creamy and instead made with the cheese instead of the chocolate) which is absolutely delicious!
Luckily, in Hawaii, we have enough aunties and commercial businesses that makes Guava Jelly, which I'm sure the Guava paste is flavorful enough without added sugar, but it's one of several quick breakfasts items of toast with Guava jelly, depending on whether they butter the toast and spread guava jelly on it. With a flavorful fruity guava flavor & cheese, I'll have to give it some thought. That again, we have locals making malasada's with guava filling, as well as haupia (creamed coconut), and a couple of other flavors.
OMG PLEASE do a pregnancy cravings episode. My twins were built almost exclusively with frozen yogurt but I know there are some wild ones that are actually good out there.
I still giggle every time Beryl says “mooozzarella”! 😊 Thanks for sharing these cheesy recipes, everyone. Cozy, comforting, say to prepare and fun, they’re all like a warm hug from the heart.
It’s one of my favourite New York word things. I love that most Anglophones shifted the o sound in mozzarella in one direction from the original Italian, and New Yorkers shifted it in the other!
Mrs Ball's Chutney is a South African national treasure!! 🙌🙌🙌 I've genuinely never been in anyone's house who doesn't have at least one variation of it, including Simba chips 🔥🔥
Portion out the quava paste on parchment paper and freeze. Then put the pucks into a labeled ziploc bag and only pull out what you need. One suggestion is to mix it with a bbq sauce and glaze the meat of choice and bake it. Sometimes store-bought red enchilada sauce can be a little flat in flavor. Mix some guava into the sauce to give a little oomph of flavor.
For the guava paste, its common for people to just eat it cold with the queso fresco. Or you can get ripe plantains, slice them and pan fry in some butter, then put sliced queso and the paste in like a little sandwich. Another way, my favorite, is to fry some very ripe(like almost all black) plantains and mush them together and add the queso and paste cubed up, then put in some flour and extra sugar if you want, mix, then scoop up and fry again, delicious! Been living in Colombia for almost 2 years now
@@zak3744 Exactly!!! Her reaction is unhinged, NOT the beans!!!!! PS. No hate to Beryl, I love Beryl, but everyone (I thought so anyway) LOVEs Heinz Beans! Maybe it's a UK thang?
I’m French Canadian and love to make French onion soup. After being in Australia for two years I’ve fused two of those together and made myself a French onion soup grilled cheese. Using veggie mite caramelized onions and mozzarella or swish to make this amazing grilled sandwich.
I can’t comment on Vegemite, but I recently made this with caramelized onions with gruyere and Swiss on sourdough. Pretty amazing. Never thought one day I’d love eating an onion sandwich.
The description of the can opener was so relatable. Also this is one of my favorite food channels because I share that curiosity of how the rest of the world sees/makes food. Food brings us together and joins us all after all!
I'm British and i was drooling with anticipation waiting for you to take that bite of the cheese and beans toastie ,so i think it's safe to say i'm definitely for it !!
The Camembert and Heinz beans grilled cheese isn't just a pregnancy craving! I live in the UK and Costa (a high street coffee chain) do a Heinz beans and cheese toastie, and Greggs do a sausage, Heinz beans and cheese pasty!
@TheQueendom_28 I suppose it's more of a savoury turnover? Or a calzone. Filling in between two layers of pastry, as opposed to lots of little layers like a croissant. But still flaky pastry!
Omggggg - my pickle grilled cheese!! I totally support the use of deli sliced American, I just don’t use it fast enough so I keep the singles. And yes, kosher dill or half sour pickles ONLY.
You can just get a quarter pound at the deli. Or even just two slices, if that’s all you use. Worked many years in the deli dept.. and those requests were common. You needn’t get a huge amount. And the flavor is so much better!
@susan3037 yes, you’re absolutely right! This is the sort of thing I make when a craving hits and I’ll just go for it - I don’t typically plan it out, nor do I keep deli American on hand. Though, I do love that my grocery store abbreviates the land o’ lakes to LOL American cheese…that’s worth it for that alone.
@kimberlytl6127 my cousin made her husband’s family recipe for spicy bread and butter pickles and that’s as close as I’ve come to enjoying a sweeter pickle - I’m with Beryl on this one!
I've made grilled cheese and pickle sandwiches before, but not with the adornments you use, and I'm all about trying your creation. I also love mustard and garlic, so there's no way that won't be a repeat performer in my life from now on.
A South African classic. Yes! Sometimes I'll skip the grilling part and just make it an open toast sandwich, the sharper the cheddar, the better. My Father and I used to eat this every Saturday morning when I was young and now it's become a tradition in my own home.
My eight year old will be ever so grateful for this episode. His favorite sandwich is grilled cheese. Most likely his favorite food. I will go each one of this recipes to ligthen up his lunchbox. Thank you for sharing.
you know, the cheese with guava paste in Colombia is known as “El matrimonio” (the marriage) because of the perfect duo they make, here you can even find a bar of both together as a snack, and nothing else, just the guava and the cheese. another idea to use the guava besides using it to make guava stuffed breads like the one you have already made (in Colombia those breads are found in various forms AND with cheese too... yep, both in the same bread, they are an inseparable duo) you can blend a small amount of guava with milk and you have a juice, and you don't need to add sugar because it is already sweet enough
THANK YOU! I personally only like kosher dill. I do not like sweet pickles whatsoever and it’s so refreshing to find another person who thinks the same way.😂😂
When I was a kid we often had jacket potatoes, Heinz baked beans and cheese. So for me the Camembert and beans sandwich totally made sense. Looking forward to the pregnancy foods episode!
Mrs. Balls chutney is the best!!❤❤❤🇿🇦 In 1852, the SS Quanza was shipwrecked off East London, South Africa, en route from Canada to Australia. It was Captain Adkins and his wife who saved a blueprint for what was to become one of SA’s most unique and priceless culinary icons. This secret recipe was passed on to their daughter, Amelia, in 1865, who later married Mr Herbert Sandleton Ball. During 1914, demand for the wholesome, piquant and fruity flavour grew bigger and bigger. And soon the Ball kitchen was transformed into a makeshift production line.
Okay, I started watching the first sandwich, then realized that you cannot watch this while hungry. I’ll be back…I’m back! Everything looks so tasty! As for me I love many kinds of pickles, but I have a special place in my heart for the dill pickles my grandma made with cucumbers from her own garden. 🍞🧀🥒
Maangchi has a great recipe for a kimchi grilled cheese sandwich. I really love it ❤ (There are plenty of kimchi grilled cheese sandwich recipes to be found, but Maangchi's is a great staple, just bread, cheese and kimchi, nothing fancy. But if you feel fancy, you can always go nuts by adding different toppings)
British person here… my husband’s favourite Greggs pasty is the sausage, baked beans and (cheddar) cheese melt so he would probably love the Camembert and Beans grilled cheese… cheese and beans is a common topping on jacket potatoes here. But as someone from the UK I think it’s wild that Americans don’t eat beans on toast as it’s such a staple in the UK. What is not common is a grilled cheese made in the frying pan weirdly - but most people have a toastie maker which does pretty much the same thing. I love a Brie, bacon and cranberry sauce toastie which is common in Britain for some reason especially at Christmas time and you can often find it in panini form. A pregnancy cravings video would be fascinating!
Use the rest of Mrs Balls chutney for a chicken casserole. Mix equal parts chutney, tangy mayo and a 50g packet of Knorr brown onion soup powder (Amazon has it). Pour sauce mixture over chicken pieces and onion wedges in oven dish, cover with aluminum foil and pop into oven for one and a half hour on 350°F. Serve with white rice and crispy potato wedges 😋
It didn't start as a pregnancy craving BUT, when I was pregnant it was a refrigerator staple: cucumbers and applesauce. And then there were the almond croissants that I'd split open and add bacon to. So delicious!
I really love the passion of the pickle grilled cheese guy. These are the types of strong opinions of simple ingredients I'm here for. Also really like the idea of a pregnancy craving episode! I think it would lend itself to some fun combos.
As a British resident, but Canadian-born, grilled cheese enjoyer (despite my recent lactose and wheat intolerances, whyyyyyy) I can tell you that beans and cheese on toast is a very normal combo here. I've never seen anyone use camembert, though - but with a very mature cheddar or something like it, it would be divine comfort food. (Though I realise you can't get them in the States, but the Tesco supermarket brand beans are weirdly my favourite that I've had!)
Many people can eat dairy if they take Lactaid or Milkaid. It's literally the enzyme that digests lactose, available from Amazon or many grocery stores. Tesco also carries several varieties of gluten-free bread.
My pregnancy craving wasn’t an odd combination, but it certainly was a craving. Deviled eggs were my go to. I liked them before I was pregnant, but during, I ate them at least 3 times a week. Sometimes I made them pickle-forward, sometimes hot sauce forward. Mostly hot sauce.
Guava paste can go almost anywhere jelly does. PB&G sando, the inside of a layer cake, etc. But, also put a little bit in your tea (black tea is best), or mix it with some warn water to get a syrup consistency and drizzle it over say, cheese cake. It's yummy stuff.
As someone who has been pregnant 4 times, and is currently pregnant for a 5th time, I had to chuckle at the pregnancy craving one. Also, my current craving is grilled cheese with tomato soup, so I thought that was funny. I’m not sure I’ve ever had any super weird combinations that I craved, but I definitely had very oddly specific cravings, lol. With my first pregnancy, every night at 2am, I’d wake up and want a crunchy peanut butter sandwich with peach jam😂, and with another pregnancy I wanted chic fil a chicken salad sandwiches, and they discontinued them in the middle of my pregnancy, and I cried over it😬🤣
Beryl, if you ever find preserved beans with tomato sauce in a Slavic store (specifically Ukrainian) - try it! It has nothing to do with Heinz beans (no offense, Heinz fans) but it´s much more flavourful and I love it to eat like a stew with fried onion and carrot addition. Just give it a try😃
Love this episode. Mrs Balls is a staple in my household because I have South African family. From a young age, we were taught to eat it with spaghetti bolognese, which was the craziest most unlikely pairing but is actually very delicious! Also, living in England, there's a famous bakery chain that sells a cheese and bean pastry, which might be even stranger than a toastie, but is oddly comforting!
I have an OXO smooth edge can opener that I absolutely love. No more sharp edges and, for quick/temporary storage, the lid can be pressed back into place. Probably my best and favorite "simple" kitchen upgrade.
same! I didn't pan fry them though, only in the oven/aga so the beans thicken a bit.. maybe that makes the difference as I can see the beans still being cold by the time the cheese heats up??
Every day after school, butter up the toastie machine and away we went. Our local pizza takeaway did an 18 inch cheese and bean pizza which was amazing 🤣
Garlic powder on grilled cheese is something I learned in the 80's. I've tried pickles, but prefer straight up cheese, white onion, mayo on the outside and yes...garlic powder.
I live in the UK.. My 4 sons loved cheese mixed with baked beans then put on toast. They would always ask for cheesy beano’s. Great reviews as always.x
I like my food dark brown sometimes, but if it's ever too much; you can scrape it with a butter knife to remove the burnt part and leave better brown part. It works great! Also, when I make refrigerator dill pickles, I always put in extra fresh garlic and peppercorns! Makes them super yummy!
Pregnancy craving . Toasted bread with fried egg with a runny yoke, butter the toast with peanut butter smooth or crunchy your choice. You can also add sliced tomatoes. Salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy!
Hey Beryl, Greetings from Aotearoa New Zealand! Displaced Brit here, just checking in to let you know cheese & baked beans is most definitely NOT a freaky pregnancy craving. Beans on toast is a very popular snack in the UK and while I've not seen it done with camembert before, almost everybody I knew added cheese of some kind to their beans. So far as I know, baked beans aren't terribly popular in the US, but they're a staple in the UK - and down here in my adopted home. I'm going to try the guava version soon, along with the mozarella one too. Thanks for the inspiration.
These are great inspiration! My favorite grilled cheese is mozzarella on Italian bread. Put chopped onions and cheese between slices of bread buttered on the outside. Grill to golden perfection, then top with mashed avocado and slices of heirloom tomato. Season with salt and pepper. Yum. I think I'll have to have this for breakfast tomorrow.
Omg! As a French person, I can't wait to try the beans and camembert grilled cheese. I think a lot of my friends will be on board with that idea too. 😅
As someone who loves pickles: 😮🤤 I typically do a grilled cheese with a cheddar and gouda mixture (grated) and homemade pickled red onions with mayo instead of butter because it gets reeeeeally crispy that way :) If I feel fancy, blackberry jam/ caramelized onion jam and a reduced balsamic vinegar sauce is amazing with soft cheeses :)
British person here. Eat your baked beans any way you like. Baked beans are an unusual but not unheard of addition to a “cheese toastie” here. Might have to try Camembert next time, as we tend to rely on cheddar for toasties.
Mrs Balls chutney is also great with any sort of curry. Especially Cape Malay style curries. It also goes well with stews, or cold meats. We grow up eating chutney on just about everything. There are often 2 camps. Those who love chutney on everything and those who love ketchup on everything. So any place where ketchup is good, chutney will also work.
I'm South African, and we sometimes make the South African sandwich as braaibroodjies (barbecue bread) where we grill them over a braai. Also, a slightly weird combo I like with Mrs Balls chutney is to dip pretzels in it! (Somewhat the same vibe as your cheese board idea)
Idea for the guava paste: make a cheesecake or vanilla pudding filling and add it to puff pastry or danish parcels together with the guava paste. Ooops, when I finished writing you mentioned it. 😄 I bet guava is also great with chicken or turkey cold cuts on a sandwich.
In UK we have a sauce called HP FRUITY BROWN SAUCE. Strange fact the HP stands for House's of Parliment there's even a sketch of the house's of parliament on the front. I put this on everything savory and yes that includes BAKED BEANS with cheese in a toasty. X
@duallove6909 I also love a soft runny fried egg but the I get carried away with some black pudding, smoked uk back bacon and a cheeky sausage. Everyone from the UK hun where a bloody island 🤣🤣
My fave is cheddar and sweet chilli toasty. It gives you sweet and salty which is just a winning combination. I put mayo rather than butter on the outside as it goes so crispy.
Toast beans and cheese are totally normal in the UK - and for Germany with pregnancy cravings I guess. Chips with cheese and beans, and baked potato with cheese and beans are pretty normal too. I don't go for it myself but some nefarious food innovator came up with baked bean pizza too.
@@wilderstrike now, I bloody love a bean, me, of the heinz tinned variety. I've probably eaten more beans in my life than anything else, besides bread. But there is NAE NEED for a baked bean pizza! That is a step too far, even for me 😂
Extra sharp cheddar and hot mango chutney. Oooooo! You won't be sorry. 😋😋😋 (I wrote this before seeing the whole video, so hadn't seen the other chutney version. I've only had it with the hot (spicy) mango chutney, so can only speak for that one, but I have to say, the sharp, salty cheese and the sweet, spicy chutney are a killer combo!)
Do you mean a spicy hot mango atchaar? Or a sweet mango chutney? Asking because we also use mango atchaar in South Africa, but it's a completely different taste to the Mrs Ball's.
The pickle grilled cheese sandwich reminds me of a sanwich i do after New Years. a typcial disch for new year is Raclet. A Chees form Switzerland, very strong in flavour. And the Leftovery i put in a Sandwich just like he does. pickels and chees is just one of the best combos
Beryl, I grew up as an American, but with an English mother and an American father. In our house, we had something called Branston Pickle. It's very, very similar to chutney, and sometimes we'd refer to it as "Branston Pickle" and sometimes as "chutney." Anyway, I recommend you try it for sure. In our house, it was served either on buttered bread with cheese slices and coldcuts, or on a Ritz cracker with a slice of very sharp white Cheddar. Once you run out of Mrs H S Balls, I hope you'll track down a jar of Branston Pickle (not *Branston's*, for goodness' sake) and enjoy the heck out of it.
I've been using my guava paste in scones and cookies. I wrapped the leftover tightly in plastic wrap and then in aluminum foil. You cam actually freeze it easily 😊😊❤❤😊❤
Hi Beryl! Love your channel! Baked beans and cheese ( specially mature cheddar and red Leicester) in cheese grill is quite famous in England. We call them toasties. I grew up eating them
On my first business trip to Venezuela, I got one of those Berlitz phrase books (this was long before smart phones and google translate, and the Pimsleur audio tapes were the king of language translations - still are in my opinion). One of the suggestions of the phrase book was to ask for a local speciality at a restaurant, turns out thar speciality was a grilled cheese and ham sandwich.
Also, if you don't want to buy Kraft individually wrapped American cheese singles, Kraft also sells Deli Select singles which are exactly the same as what you are having sliced in the deli and are available at every grocery store Im aware of.
Australia we do ham and cheese or vegemite and cheese either in a frying pan or the "breville" machine (that makes the puffy toasted sandwiches) we also call them jaffles due to the fact back in the day that we're made in a jaffle iron
For decades I've made a version of the pickle and cheese. The big difference is using either a good relish or finely chopped (blitzed) pickles. Doing this gives the power to mix it up: you want garlic dill? Sure. Pickled onions ? Nice. Tamponade? Pickled slaw from (insert country of choice)? Your pallet's the limit.
My Cuban mother in law makes guava and cream cheese empanadas and they’re delicious! You could just buy some premade empanada dough from the freezer, or even use pie or puff pastry dough or whatever. Then just slap some guava paste and cream cheese in roughly equal amounts inside, seal it up, and either bake or fry. We can easily mow through a plate of these for breakfast or dessert or snack… not to mention the couple that get eaten to ‘test’ them while being made. Haha
Also, the guava paste looks like jelly, and I'm betting you can put it on toast or a bagel with cream cheese, and it will be really good! Or use it another way that you might use jelly or jam.
Best pickle? In our family, grandma pickles are the most coveted. They are an extra green sweeter pickle that tastes like love. They are perfect for peanut butter and pickle sandwiches.
The guava paste reminds me of dulce de membrillo from Argentina. (Apparently Membrillo translates to "quince" in English? Never heard the english word but it seems to be it.) There they have a recipe called "pasta frola" which is just a pie with lots of the dulce de membrillo paste. I think it has an Italian background and italian immigrants brought it to Argentina. This might work with the guava paste too!
I was under the impression that membrillo was from Spain. It's usually served with Manchego. We do have quince in England although it's not fashionable so much these days.
My pregnancy craving was ONIONS...I was a very young woman, and this little pizza (privately owned) place knew my craving. I would get a medium pizza with layers and layers of onions.no other toppings than onions.
@@swisski America doesn't seem to do that kind of dark, fruity, vinegary chutney at all. Saw one of those videos where some actor or singer or someone was trying British snacks. They were pretty appalled by Branstons, even when it was paired with a decent cheddar!
GOWDA!!! God bless this lovely lady from South Africa for pronouncing this cheese correctly, and for introducing us to Mrs. Balls' Chutney! I'm all for pickles in the grilled cheese, I think I have to make that one. I was introduced to a scrambled egg and cheese sandwich with garlic and green chilies on the outside by Chef Sanjyot Keer on his channel, YFL, that changed my life. Please, friends, do search for this, it is phenomenal! My contribution to pregnancy cravings: I HAD to have this Mediterranean grilled chicken salad about once a week from Pita Jungle in the Scottsdale, Arizona area. It has beautiful greens, cucumbers, and a lemony oregano vinaigrette, and delicious marinated, tender chicken.
as someone who has no plans of ever being pregnant but LOVES weird food combos, a pregnancy cravings episode would be so cool
Same here! Sounds fascinating and delicious!
Same same!
stoner foods 😅😂 but that's not as family friendly 🎉
I just wanted the most sour candy and fruits I could possibly find. 😂 But I find those weird cravings also interesting.
@@alex9190 jars of pickled jalapenos then ice cream sundaes. Tinned grapefruit with my son.
I love the idea of a pregnancy craving episode. So fun!
Agreed! I figured i might be pregnant when i craved a garlic pizza with pickles on and then the next day I added original chips and hot sauces!
As someone currently pregnant, yes 1000% yes 😆
I LOVE hearing about pregnancy cravings. Weird food combos are my jam - unfortunately, I didn't have very interesting pregnancy cravings... just an intense need for anything lemon flavored with my first, and an intense need for mango everything with my second. I feel like I missed out on the fun cravings, and I think that's why I love hearing about everyone else's and living vicariously through that, lol.
That would be interesting, my aunt craved mortar when she was pregnant (yes the paste between bricks)
hi Beryl - from the UK here - just want to say that cheesy baked beans are so part of our culture that the sandwich with the baked beans seemed totally normal to me, until I saw your reaction! Obviously I'm sure you know about beans on toast - but so many of us also have cheesy beans on toast (with cheddar, not camembert) and in our popular bakery chain, Greggs, you can buy a sausage, bean and cheese melt (which is baked beans, cheese and sausage all encased in puff pastry!) So much luv from the other side of the pond - your vids always bring joy xx
Yesssssss! I'm from the UK too and cheese and baked beans is life! (usually with cheddar but I do just about any cheese). I was so surprised by how surprised she was by that!
I've actually just had a marmite, cheesy bean & sausage toastie. So good.
I love in canada now and I do miss those sausage beans and cheese pasties from Gregg's!
Surely it’s the Camembert that’s the weird part…Aussie here who gets the cheddar and beans thing…just not the soft cheese thing 😅
Amelia Atkins Ball, wife of railroad engineer Herbert Sandleton Ball. Apparently the chutney is an old family recipe which in the 1830s she started selling at church bazaars to help support herself, her husband, and their seven kids.
The pickle grilled cheese guy with the jars of pickled/canned stuff on his shirt…👌🏻 Attention to detail sir! A+
That sandwich is being re-made at my house!
@@nicolesobol936 thank you! I got it at the LA Farmer’s Market and knew it was its time to shine.
I laughed because we have been eating pickles in our grilled cheese for probably 20 years 🤣 Same with adding garlic to it. My grandpa would use mayo, I dont though. It's not a new creation sadly.
@@PirateLotusBoutique I like it with onions too!
@@jaminwaite3867 I bet it would be amazing with carmelized onion too!
Retired chef here... using mayo instead of butter makes your bread super crispy that doesn't go soft. I think heinz beans are boring but I think I'm gunna try BBQ and Ranch beans with cheddar-I think that sounds delicious. I recently inhaled an entire jar of Persian pickles on your recommendation-YES YES YES! So dilly and crunchy! But I'm currently LIVING for kimchee grilled cheese lately! For your guava poppers try using canned croissant dough to make it SUPER easy! Another awesome ep ... thank you, ma'am. 😁😁😁
Thank you for the recommendations, Chef!😋😋
I love using mayo on my grilled cheese, I also like using Parmesan on top of cheddar in mine. I have seen many people put cheddar cheese on baked beans so it might work.
And very tasty
As someone comming from a country where butter means the real deal I never got soggy bread with butter. Acculy it get nicer looking then the only time I tried mayo. Mayo tasted crap and looked crap.
@AnniCarlsson no one is critisizing butter, Anni. Relax. Mayo is oil, eggs and acid. The bread stays crispier. Mayo is ALSO the real deal - So I disagree with you entirely. Good day!
I've never been pregnant but I've eaten literally hundreds of toasties with Heinz baked beans and cheese. It's a match made in heaven!
Australia ?
Yes to pregnancy cravings. My son is 15 but I still eat coleslaw with pickled jalapeños or deli macaroni salad with pickled jalapeños. Just everything pickled.
@Achng-lj9bh Scotland 🙂. Fyi, the international medal league for swearing is, 1) Australia, 2), Ireland, 3) Scotland. So I look upon my Aussie cousins with deep admiration 🤣.
Yeah I don't get why they were saying it was a weird combination.
Same, it's a staple quick/university/childhood meal here in New Zealand - we use Watties baked beans of course, though. Or Watties canned spaghetti.
Brit here- we looove our beans and cheese combos on anything- jacket potatoes, toasties, pasties, you name it. Definitely not strange for us!
South African here. Best way to make our Mrs Balls chutney grilled cheese is to make it over a braai (barbecue) on a grid to make a 'braai broodjie' (barbecue sandwich).
Love the episode!❤
Yup. When i think of a sarnie, i think open fire.
That sounds like an appliance-free way to make an Australian/NZ jaffle! We have jaffle irons, which give that super crispy outside and the original ones would be stuck in a fire for great bbq flavor (now they are fancy sandwich toasters but i still love them 😅)
Just eat the Guava Paste with cheese! ‘Romeo and Juliet’, as we call it here in Brazil. You can also add it in cubes or melted to a simple yellow cake to make it even more delicious! I work at a Dessert Shop and there we have a cake called ‘Giulietta’ which is made with creamy guava paste and demerara sugar and filled with parmesan cheese brigadeiro (you know, that Condensed Milk chocolate goodness, but more creamy and instead made with the cheese instead of the chocolate) which is absolutely delicious!
Luckily, in Hawaii, we have enough aunties and commercial businesses that makes Guava Jelly, which I'm sure the Guava paste is flavorful enough without added sugar, but it's one of several quick breakfasts items of toast with Guava jelly, depending on whether they butter the toast and spread guava jelly on it. With a flavorful fruity guava flavor & cheese, I'll have to give it some thought. That again, we have locals making malasada's with guava filling, as well as haupia (creamed coconut), and a couple of other flavors.
Pls share the cake recipe - Giulietta - it sounds so good!! TIA
Yep, it sounds similar to dulce de membrillo
OMG PLEASE do a pregnancy cravings episode. My twins were built almost exclusively with frozen yogurt but I know there are some wild ones that are actually good out there.
Not weird combos but my first was made of crates of tangerines as well as cinnabon, the second sadly breakfast burritos…
Lmao my mom built me with ricepudding with bananas because its all she could keep inside 😂 I was a menace even back then
I still giggle every time Beryl says “mooozzarella”! 😊 Thanks for sharing these cheesy recipes, everyone. Cozy, comforting, say to prepare and fun, they’re all like a warm hug from the heart.
Thank you for saying this - I was about to mention it too!!!! "Moozahrella"
Oh, gosh! Me, too!
It’s one of my favourite New York word things. I love that most Anglophones shifted the o sound in mozzarella in one direction from the original Italian, and New Yorkers shifted it in the other!
I would put cheez it crackers in a bowl, pour pickle brine over them and eat it like breakfast cereal.
I would put cheez it crackers in a bowl, pour pickle brine over them and eat it like breakfast cereal.
The grilled cheese I like to make is grilled cheese with Brie and fig jam. It’s so good!
Oh that sounds divine! I have to try that!
Mrs Ball's Chutney is a South African national treasure!! 🙌🙌🙌 I've genuinely never been in anyone's house who doesn't have at least one variation of it, including Simba chips 🔥🔥
And it's great on almost ALL toasted sandwiches. I only say almost because I have put them on all yet.
Portion out the quava paste on parchment paper and freeze. Then put the pucks into a labeled ziploc bag and only pull out what you need. One suggestion is to mix it with a bbq sauce and glaze the meat of choice and bake it. Sometimes store-bought red enchilada sauce can be a little flat in flavor. Mix some guava into the sauce to give a little oomph of flavor.
Brilliant tips!❤
For the guava paste, its common for people to just eat it cold with the queso fresco. Or you can get ripe plantains, slice them and pan fry in some butter, then put sliced queso and the paste in like a little sandwich. Another way, my favorite, is to fry some very ripe(like almost all black) plantains and mush them together and add the queso and paste cubed up, then put in some flour and extra sugar if you want, mix, then scoop up and fry again, delicious! Been living in Colombia for almost 2 years now
We also eat the guava paste with fresh cheese in Brazil and call it Romeo and Julia 😂 (Romeu e Julieta). So delicious!
A cheese and bean toasty is totally normal in the uk 😄
Yeah, describing the combo of beans and cheese as "unhinged". What? It's *the* classic culinary pairing!
And Welsh rarebit.
@@zak3744 Exactly!!! Her reaction is unhinged, NOT the beans!!!!! PS. No hate to Beryl, I love Beryl, but everyone (I thought so anyway) LOVEs Heinz Beans! Maybe it's a UK thang?
Yeah its big in NZ too, every child eats it growing up
And in Australia, too.
for the guava paste: At my restorant we transform it in a sirop for drink! Water, sugar, guava and lemon! ....and a little bit of tequila
Interesting.........may have to try it.
Amounts for say 2 drinks, cause I am not a cook
8:43 Almost lost it when the lady said her husband liked the bean/camembert sandwich and he wasn't pregnant at the time!
I’m French Canadian and love to make French onion soup. After being in Australia for two years I’ve fused two of those together and made myself a French onion soup grilled cheese. Using veggie mite caramelized onions and mozzarella or swish to make this amazing grilled sandwich.
I can’t comment on Vegemite, but I recently made this with caramelized onions with gruyere and Swiss on sourdough. Pretty amazing. Never thought one day I’d love eating an onion sandwich.
The description of the can opener was so relatable. Also this is one of my favorite food channels because I share that curiosity of how the rest of the world sees/makes food. Food brings us together and joins us all after all!
More Pan Pals please PBS!!!! What a lovely beautiful series. Need way more stuff like that in our lives. Where’s the petition??
I'm British and i was drooling with anticipation waiting for you to take that bite of the cheese and beans toastie ,so i think it's safe to say i'm definitely for it !!
The Camembert and Heinz beans grilled cheese isn't just a pregnancy craving! I live in the UK and Costa (a high street coffee chain) do a Heinz beans and cheese toastie, and Greggs do a sausage, Heinz beans and cheese pasty!
American here...these sound really good! Is cheese pasty like a croissant sort of thing??
@TheQueendom_28 I suppose it's more of a savoury turnover? Or a calzone. Filling in between two layers of pastry, as opposed to lots of little layers like a croissant. But still flaky pastry!
@@complicateditis Ohhhh that sounds so good! Thank you so much for answering me :)
Omggggg - my pickle grilled cheese!! I totally support the use of deli sliced American, I just don’t use it fast enough so I keep the singles. And yes, kosher dill or half sour pickles ONLY.
You can just get a quarter pound at the deli. Or even just two slices, if that’s all you use. Worked many years in the deli dept.. and those requests were common. You needn’t get a huge amount. And the flavor is so much better!
Zesty bread & butter pickles are the BEST!
@susan3037 yes, you’re absolutely right! This is the sort of thing I make when a craving hits and I’ll just go for it - I don’t typically plan it out, nor do I keep deli American on hand. Though, I do love that my grocery store abbreviates the land o’ lakes to LOL American cheese…that’s worth it for that alone.
@kimberlytl6127 my cousin made her husband’s family recipe for spicy bread and butter pickles and that’s as close as I’ve come to enjoying a sweeter pickle - I’m with Beryl on this one!
I've made grilled cheese and pickle sandwiches before, but not with the adornments you use, and I'm all about trying your creation. I also love mustard and garlic, so there's no way that won't be a repeat performer in my life from now on.
A South African classic. Yes! Sometimes I'll skip the grilling part and just make it an open toast sandwich, the sharper the cheddar, the better. My Father and I used to eat this every Saturday morning when I was young and now it's become a tradition in my own home.
My eight year old will be ever so grateful for this episode. His favorite sandwich is grilled cheese. Most likely his favorite food. I will go each one of this recipes to ligthen up his lunchbox. Thank you for sharing.
you know, the cheese with guava paste in Colombia is known as “El matrimonio” (the marriage) because of the perfect duo they make, here you can even find a bar of both together as a snack, and nothing else, just the guava and the cheese.
another idea to use the guava besides using it to make guava stuffed breads like the one you have already made (in Colombia those breads are found in various forms AND with cheese too... yep, both in the same bread, they are an inseparable duo) you can blend a small amount of guava with milk and you have a juice, and you don't need to add sugar because it is already sweet enough
Beans on toast with melted cheese on top is another version of the baked bean sandwich. Extra strong cheddar for me, with loads of Tabasco.
THANK YOU! I personally only like kosher dill. I do not like sweet pickles whatsoever and it’s so refreshing to find another person who thinks the same way.😂😂
When I was a kid we often had jacket potatoes, Heinz baked beans and cheese. So for me the Camembert and beans sandwich totally made sense. Looking forward to the pregnancy foods episode!
Mrs. Balls chutney is the best!!❤❤❤🇿🇦
In 1852, the SS Quanza was shipwrecked off East London, South Africa, en route from Canada to Australia. It was Captain Adkins and his wife who saved a blueprint for what was to become one of SA’s most unique and priceless culinary icons. This secret recipe was passed on to their daughter, Amelia, in 1865, who later married Mr Herbert Sandleton Ball. During 1914, demand for the wholesome, piquant and fruity flavour grew bigger and bigger. And soon the Ball kitchen was transformed into a makeshift production line.
Mrs Balls with curry is good
@@sainjawoof3506 love that story.
Okay, I started watching the first sandwich, then realized that you cannot watch this while hungry. I’ll be back…I’m back! Everything looks so tasty! As for me I love many kinds of pickles, but I have a special place in my heart for the dill pickles my grandma made with cucumbers from her own garden. 🍞🧀🥒
Right? I am craving a nice crunchy grilled cheese but can't do one!
Maangchi has a great recipe for a kimchi grilled cheese sandwich.
I really love it ❤
(There are plenty of kimchi grilled cheese sandwich recipes to be found, but Maangchi's is a great staple, just bread, cheese and kimchi, nothing fancy. But if you feel fancy, you can always go nuts by adding different toppings)
I came here to see if someone had suggested kimchi and cheese toastie!
Wooooo that sounds fabulous!,,
Hoping your PBS series continues too; loved it!
British person here… my husband’s favourite Greggs pasty is the sausage, baked beans and (cheddar) cheese melt so he would probably love the Camembert and Beans grilled cheese… cheese and beans is a common topping on jacket potatoes here. But as someone from the UK I think it’s wild that Americans don’t eat beans on toast as it’s such a staple in the UK. What is not common is a grilled cheese made in the frying pan weirdly - but most people have a toastie maker which does pretty much the same thing. I love a Brie, bacon and cranberry sauce toastie which is common in Britain for some reason especially at Christmas time and you can often find it in panini form. A pregnancy cravings video would be fascinating!
Nothing beats the apple grilled cheese from a prior video. Thank you for sharing that, Beryl!
The last one is basically a "braai broodjie" (braai sandwich). We usually toss those on the braai (grill) with the meat. Very good.
Use the rest of Mrs Balls chutney for a chicken casserole. Mix equal parts chutney, tangy mayo and a 50g packet of Knorr brown onion soup powder (Amazon has it). Pour sauce mixture over chicken pieces and onion wedges in oven dish, cover with aluminum foil and pop into oven for one and a half hour on 350°F. Serve with white rice and crispy potato wedges 😋
I'm going to try this! ❤
It didn't start as a pregnancy craving BUT, when I was pregnant it was a refrigerator staple: cucumbers and applesauce.
And then there were the almond croissants that I'd split open and add bacon to. So delicious!
I really love the passion of the pickle grilled cheese guy. These are the types of strong opinions of simple ingredients I'm here for. Also really like the idea of a pregnancy craving episode! I think it would lend itself to some fun combos.
I've been making grilled cheese with pickles for years. My favorite are the zesty bread & butter pickles. Yum!
@@kimberlytl6127 Yeah, me too! I thought it was normal. 😅
@@Greytuneify I take food very seriously.
South African here: mixing mrs balls with mayo is an amazing sauce to bake chicken in and serve over rice! pure rich comfort food
As a British resident, but Canadian-born, grilled cheese enjoyer (despite my recent lactose and wheat intolerances, whyyyyyy) I can tell you that beans and cheese on toast is a very normal combo here. I've never seen anyone use camembert, though - but with a very mature cheddar or something like it, it would be divine comfort food.
(Though I realise you can't get them in the States, but the Tesco supermarket brand beans are weirdly my favourite that I've had!)
Aged Extra Sharp Cheddar and Aged Parmesan have less lactose than fresher cheeses.
Many people can eat dairy if they take Lactaid or Milkaid. It's literally the enzyme that digests lactose, available from Amazon or many grocery stores. Tesco also carries several varieties of gluten-free bread.
Thank you! I love my lactase tablets, and working my way up to exploring the gluten free baking more ❤️
My pregnancy craving wasn’t an odd combination, but it certainly was a craving. Deviled eggs were my go to. I liked them before I was pregnant, but during, I ate them at least 3 times a week. Sometimes I made them pickle-forward, sometimes hot sauce forward. Mostly hot sauce.
Guava paste can go almost anywhere jelly does. PB&G sando, the inside of a layer cake, etc. But, also put a little bit in your tea (black tea is best), or mix it with some warn water to get a syrup consistency and drizzle it over say, cheese cake. It's yummy stuff.
As someone who has been pregnant 4 times, and is currently pregnant for a 5th time, I had to chuckle at the pregnancy craving one. Also, my current craving is grilled cheese with tomato soup, so I thought that was funny. I’m not sure I’ve ever had any super weird combinations that I craved, but I definitely had very oddly specific cravings, lol. With my first pregnancy, every night at 2am, I’d wake up and want a crunchy peanut butter sandwich with peach jam😂, and with another pregnancy I wanted chic fil a chicken salad sandwiches, and they discontinued them in the middle of my pregnancy, and I cried over it😬🤣
Beryl, if you ever find preserved beans with tomato sauce in a Slavic store (specifically Ukrainian) - try it! It has nothing to do with Heinz beans (no offense, Heinz fans) but it´s much more flavourful and I love it to eat like a stew with fried onion and carrot addition. Just give it a try😃
Dear Raymond, if you read this, I made your pickle grilled cheese this morning and it’s so so good. It’s definitely gonna be my go-to !! 😋😋
Love this episode. Mrs Balls is a staple in my household because I have South African family. From a young age, we were taught to eat it with spaghetti bolognese, which was the craziest most unlikely pairing but is actually very delicious!
Also, living in England, there's a famous bakery chain that sells a cheese and bean pastry, which might be even stranger than a toastie, but is oddly comforting!
We also use to eat it with my mom's curry. Those curries you used to get at the church bazaars and school athletics days. Yuham!
I have an OXO smooth edge can opener that I absolutely love. No more sharp edges and, for quick/temporary storage, the lid can be pressed back into place. Probably my best and favorite "simple" kitchen upgrade.
I bought one of those when my kids were little, for safety's sake, and love it!
Love my OXO smooth edge can opener!
I was very confused by your comment for a moment because in South Africa Oxo is something similar to Marmite 😂
I grew up on cheese and beans toasties in the UK!
same! I didn't pan fry them though, only in the oven/aga so the beans thicken a bit.. maybe that makes the difference as I can see the beans still being cold by the time the cheese heats up??
Every day after school, butter up the toastie machine and away we went. Our local pizza takeaway did an 18 inch cheese and bean pizza which was amazing 🤣
As an Aussie, same! Baked bean jaffles are a childhood classic.
Yeah, it's not weird in the UK. But we also put chips on sandwiches, so anything goes really
Me too!
Garlic powder on grilled cheese is something I learned in the 80's. I've tried pickles, but prefer straight up cheese, white onion, mayo on the outside and yes...garlic powder.
I live in the UK.. My 4 sons loved cheese mixed with baked beans then put on toast. They would always ask for cheesy beano’s. Great reviews as always.x
I like my food dark brown sometimes, but if it's ever too much; you can scrape it with a butter knife to remove the burnt part and leave better brown part. It works great!
Also, when I make refrigerator dill pickles, I always put in extra fresh garlic and peppercorns! Makes them super yummy!
Pregnancy craving . Toasted bread with fried egg with a runny yoke, butter the toast with peanut butter smooth or crunchy your choice. You can also add sliced tomatoes. Salt and pepper to taste. Enjoy!
Have put pickles and mustard on my grilled cheese since I was a kid. My mom made them that way and she is 78.
Hey Beryl,
Greetings from Aotearoa New Zealand!
Displaced Brit here, just checking in to let you know cheese & baked beans is most definitely NOT a freaky pregnancy craving. Beans on toast is a very popular snack in the UK and while I've not seen it done with camembert before, almost everybody I knew added cheese of some kind to their beans.
So far as I know, baked beans aren't terribly popular in the US, but they're a staple in the UK - and down here in my adopted home.
I'm going to try the guava version soon, along with the mozarella one too.
Thanks for the inspiration.
“Snaggly and craggy like an old lady who lives in the woods and yells at kids”. I’ve never felt more seen and validated. Thank you, Beryl.
These are great inspiration!
My favorite grilled cheese is mozzarella on Italian bread. Put chopped onions and cheese between slices of bread buttered on the outside. Grill to golden perfection, then top with mashed avocado and slices of heirloom tomato. Season with salt and pepper. Yum. I think I'll have to have this for breakfast tomorrow.
ooooh, guac on a grilled cheese... yes, please!
Omg! As a French person, I can't wait to try the beans and camembert grilled cheese. I think a lot of my friends will be on board with that idea too. 😅
I'm American and it sounds delicious to me!
Almost everyone in the UK eats baked beans with cheese ! @@msarathigovind
As someone who loves pickles: 😮🤤
I typically do a grilled cheese with a cheddar and gouda mixture (grated) and homemade pickled red onions with mayo instead of butter because it gets reeeeeally crispy that way :)
If I feel fancy, blackberry jam/ caramelized onion jam and a reduced balsamic vinegar sauce is amazing with soft cheeses :)
British person here. Eat your baked beans any way you like. Baked beans are an unusual but not unheard of addition to a “cheese toastie” here. Might have to try Camembert next time, as we tend to rely on cheddar for toasties.
As a South African who Ms Balls was is a mystery but we all use it in everything! It is really good on a good curry or on a meatball Sandwich.
Mrs Balls chutney is also great with any sort of curry. Especially Cape Malay style curries. It also goes well with stews, or cold meats. We grow up eating chutney on just about everything. There are often 2 camps. Those who love chutney on everything and those who love ketchup on everything. So any place where ketchup is good, chutney will also work.
Bobotie!!! Someone give beryll a bobotie recipe
Pickles.... dill or sweet.. yummmm both have their place in different recipes. ❤
I'm South African, and we sometimes make the South African sandwich as braaibroodjies (barbecue bread) where we grill them over a braai.
Also, a slightly weird combo I like with Mrs Balls chutney is to dip pretzels in it! (Somewhat the same vibe as your cheese board idea)
Idea for the guava paste: make a cheesecake or vanilla pudding filling and add it to puff pastry or danish parcels together with the guava paste.
Ooops, when I finished writing you mentioned it. 😄
I bet guava is also great with chicken or turkey cold cuts on a sandwich.
In UK we have a sauce called HP FRUITY BROWN SAUCE. Strange fact the HP stands for House's of Parliment there's even a sketch of the house's of parliament on the front. I put this on everything savory and yes that includes BAKED BEANS with cheese in a toasty. X
HP sauce + beans on toast + fried egg = 👌🏼
Ate this since I’m a kid. 40+ years. I’m not even British.
@duallove6909 I also love a soft runny fried egg but the I get carried away with some black pudding, smoked uk back bacon and a cheeky sausage. Everyone from the UK hun where a bloody island 🤣🤣
My fave is cheddar and sweet chilli toasty. It gives you sweet and salty which is just a winning combination. I put mayo rather than butter on the outside as it goes so crispy.
Olive oil also works well for grilled cheese.
Toast beans and cheese are totally normal in the UK - and for Germany with pregnancy cravings I guess. Chips with cheese and beans, and baked potato with cheese and beans are pretty normal too. I don't go for it myself but some nefarious food innovator came up with baked bean pizza too.
😮WTHECK! I think I'll stick with Pineapple on my pizza when I'm feeling weirder than normal 😉😋😂
I‘m German and I would definitely think this was British lol
@@wilderstrike now, I bloody love a bean, me, of the heinz tinned variety. I've probably eaten more beans in my life than anything else, besides bread. But there is NAE NEED for a baked bean pizza! That is a step too far, even for me 😂
Love the dill pickle american cheese sandwich - all u need is a cup of tomato soup! The Sat. night supper of my childhood!!😊
@@kimberlyianaro3774 I just made one today in honor of the episode and had leftover roasted butternut squash soup with it!
@underground97 Comfort foods!
Me too! Tomato soup and grilled cheese is so comforting ❤
Extra sharp cheddar and hot mango chutney. Oooooo! You won't be sorry. 😋😋😋 (I wrote this before seeing the whole video, so hadn't seen the other chutney version. I've only had it with the hot (spicy) mango chutney, so can only speak for that one, but I have to say, the sharp, salty cheese and the sweet, spicy chutney are a killer combo!)
Do you mean a spicy hot mango atchaar? Or a sweet mango chutney?
Asking because we also use mango atchaar in South Africa, but it's a completely different taste to the Mrs Ball's.
@bilkees8151 I'm not familiar with atchaar. What I use from my local grocery is Major Grey's hot chutney. It's sweet, but with a little zing! 😊
Nice that you’re sponsored by Wild Grain. My cousin and his wife started it, they’re very passionate about it.
The pickle grilled cheese sandwich reminds me of a sanwich i do after New Years. a typcial disch for new year is Raclet. A Chees form Switzerland, very strong in flavour. And the Leftovery i put in a Sandwich just like he does. pickels and chees is just one of the best combos
Beryl, I grew up as an American, but with an English mother and an American father.
In our house, we had something called Branston Pickle. It's very, very similar to chutney, and sometimes we'd refer to it as "Branston Pickle" and sometimes as "chutney." Anyway, I recommend you try it for sure.
In our house, it was served either on buttered bread with cheese slices and coldcuts, or on a Ritz cracker with a slice of very sharp white Cheddar.
Once you run out of Mrs H S Balls, I hope you'll track down a jar of Branston Pickle (not *Branston's*, for goodness' sake) and enjoy the heck out of it.
Love Branston pickle am in the Uk
I've been using my guava paste in scones and cookies. I wrapped the leftover tightly in plastic wrap and then in aluminum foil. You cam actually freeze it easily 😊😊❤❤😊❤
I like dill pickles, but I absolutely love mustard seeds pickles. And any bread and any cheese is always a yes for me.
Hi Beryl! Love your channel! Baked beans and cheese ( specially mature cheddar and red Leicester) in cheese grill is quite famous in England. We call them toasties. I grew up eating them
On my first business trip to Venezuela, I got one of those Berlitz phrase books (this was long before smart phones and google translate, and the Pimsleur audio tapes were the king of language translations - still are in my opinion). One of the suggestions of the phrase book was to ask for a local speciality at a restaurant, turns out thar speciality was a grilled cheese and ham sandwich.
Also, if you don't want to buy Kraft individually wrapped American cheese singles, Kraft also sells Deli Select singles which are exactly the same as what you are having sliced in the deli and are available at every grocery store Im aware of.
Australia we do ham and cheese or vegemite and cheese either in a frying pan or the "breville" machine (that makes the puffy toasted sandwiches) we also call them jaffles due to the fact back in the day that we're made in a jaffle iron
for pickle grilled cheese, adding everything bagel seasoning on the inside with the cheese and pickles is also a nice option 🤩
@@lydzx1992 ohhhh, I’m gonna try that next time.
For decades I've made a version of the pickle and cheese. The big difference is using either a good relish or finely chopped (blitzed) pickles. Doing this gives the power to mix it up: you want garlic dill? Sure. Pickled onions ? Nice. Tamponade? Pickled slaw from (insert country of choice)? Your pallet's the limit.
My Cuban mother in law makes guava and cream cheese empanadas and they’re delicious! You could just buy some premade empanada dough from the freezer, or even use pie or puff pastry dough or whatever. Then just slap some guava paste and cream cheese in roughly equal amounts inside, seal it up, and either bake or fry. We can easily mow through a plate of these for breakfast or dessert or snack… not to mention the couple that get eaten to ‘test’ them while being made. Haha
My mother owned a restaurant when I was growing up and she would make grilled ch with lettuce, tomato, bacon, pickle and mayo. I still crave them
Oooh a BLT grilled cheese crossover sounds fabulous
Yum! I will have to try that!
Also, the guava paste looks like jelly, and I'm betting you can put it on toast or a bagel with cream cheese, and it will be really good! Or use it another way that you might use jelly or jam.
Guava paste and cheese (queijo com goiabada) is a godlike combo here in Brasil as well, we call it Romeo and Juliet.
Best pickle? In our family, grandma pickles are the most coveted. They are an extra green sweeter pickle that tastes like love. They are perfect for peanut butter and pickle sandwiches.
The guava paste reminds me of dulce de membrillo from Argentina. (Apparently Membrillo translates to "quince" in English? Never heard the english word but it seems to be it.) There they have a recipe called "pasta frola" which is just a pie with lots of the dulce de membrillo paste. I think it has an Italian background and italian immigrants brought it to Argentina. This might work with the guava paste too!
I was under the impression that membrillo was from Spain. It's usually served with Manchego. We do have quince in England although it's not fashionable so much these days.
I love when segments feature family members together - the mom and son from Colombia, it's so lovely to see them share their culture together
I will pass on sandwich #2 but this whole episode is all me! Thanks for all your awesome videos Beryl!
My pregnancy craving was ONIONS...I was a very young woman, and this little pizza (privately owned) place knew my craving. I would get a medium pizza with layers and layers of onions.no other toppings than onions.
Amazing episode Thanks Beryl!
Your channel is amazing you are amazing
Sabrina 🇫🇷🇬🇧
If you can’t get Mrs Balls fruit chutney, I know a delicious substitute would be Branston pickle in a grilled cheese. Delish!
@@swisski America doesn't seem to do that kind of dark, fruity, vinegary chutney at all. Saw one of those videos where some actor or singer or someone was trying British snacks. They were pretty appalled by Branstons, even when it was paired with a decent cheddar!
@ That checks out. I could imagine a nice Indian sweet mango chutney in that case, possibly with a sprinkle of chili flakes for the more daring…
@jonnylumberjack6223 I'm American, and I make my own Branston pickle. (Yes, I fell for it in the UK.)
Totally agree on your "no sweet pickles" stand, although I certainly know people who like both.
With the guava paste you can also make guava and cream cheese empanadas❤
Kimchi grilled cheese is so good! Give it a try 😋
Especially with Red Leicester
The guava paste! Use it with a bottle of barbecue sauce and throw some frozen meatballs in! :)
Mozzarella cheese on English muffin toasting bread will forever be my favorite grilled cheese
Provolone is good too😋
GOWDA!!! God bless this lovely lady from South Africa for pronouncing this cheese correctly, and for introducing us to Mrs. Balls' Chutney! I'm all for pickles in the grilled cheese, I think I have to make that one. I was introduced to a scrambled egg and cheese sandwich with garlic and green chilies on the outside by Chef Sanjyot Keer on his channel, YFL, that changed my life. Please, friends, do search for this, it is phenomenal!
My contribution to pregnancy cravings: I HAD to have this Mediterranean grilled chicken salad about once a week from Pita Jungle in the Scottsdale, Arizona area. It has beautiful greens, cucumbers, and a lemony oregano vinaigrette, and delicious marinated, tender chicken.
in the netherlands they pronounce it howda. pronunciations in other places arent really incorrect, just different