2/27/2024 0 Comments Contraption maker toast![]() We made the beef stew in a pressure cooker to save time (it had been a week, after all). Cheese Toastie with Beef Cheek, Cauliflower Leaves and Pickled Mustard Seeds The thing is, I have a lot more to worry about now. It’s a very full-on experience, a world away from the simple toasties of childhood. A good combination for flavour + requisite stringiness. About that: it’s Isle of Mull Cheddar and Marechal. There are cauliflower leaves because right now I’m enjoying them more than the florets, and there is a poky mixture of pickled mustard seeds and onion to offset the cheese. ![]() There is beef cheek which has been cooked slowly in a sauce given depth with red miso. Cheese toastie with beef cheek, cauliflower leaves and pickled mustard seeds. I forgot to buy ingredients, then I didn’t have time to slow cook the meat, then Trump… nope, still can’t deal with it. I rather enjoy the way toasties have evolved, even though it took me a week to make this one. stringiness) and there are additions, like slow cooked short rib haggis onion and herbs chorizo macaroni roast broccoli pickles you name it, they toast it. They contain multiple varieties of cheese (for the right balance of flavour vs. We buy them from air stream trucks and restaurants for anything between £5 – £10. ![]() Toasties now are a different thing entirely – a street food trend, people’s livelihoods. Cheap white bread, weird canary yellow cheese, too-thick onion. This style of toastie is still popular in pubs in Ireland, at least in Dublin, where lots will do a ‘toasted special’ – a very basic toastie which I’ve seen cooked in a normal toaster turned on its side while I waited for my pint of Guinness to settle. Add blanched cauliflower leaves and more cheese. There was egg if you were being fancy (tricky to pull off). We all know the dangers of hot tomato as part of the learning curve many a child went to school with a tomato-shaped blister on their chin. Cheese ham and cheese cheese and onion cheese and tomato. There was something lovely about the simplicity of old school toasties, with their one, maybe two-item fillings. Piling on half the cheese, beef and pickled mustard seeds. It just about works if you hold in a screw and say ‘melted cheese is the one’ three times fast while thinking about pickled onions. Instead, I have a snazzy Heston Blumenthal contraption I was sent as a freebie but which I’ve battered through consistent heavy use. I should, as a sandwich fanatic, own an old Breville toastie maker I often find myself hankering for the old triangular style made with cheap white bread. Yes, the cheese toastie is a small thing but its cheering potential should not be underestimated a shit tonne of melted cheese + nostalgia = a force to be reckoned with. Many of us need comfort after the events of the past week or, to be more accurate, the past year. The Cheese Toastie that Took a Week to Make
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