Did you know that April is grilled cheese month? I’m not sure why it’s April. I think it would make more sense to be a winter month… January maybe? I say this because when I think of grilled cheese, I think of cold snowy days. When we had snow days growing up, I remember my mom always making soup and grilled cheese for us to warm up after playing outside or shoveling the driveway. I do the same now on occasion. It’s a quick and easy comfort food that I’m positive is well loved by the majority.

To celebrate grilled cheese month, Jarlsberg and Kitchen Play have teamed up for a fun grilled cheese event. I was lucky enough to participate in this event. How could you not get excited to work with cheese? My first idea is the one that stuck. I wanted to make grilled cheese dippers. Going back to my memories from childhood, my mom always ate her grilled cheese with tomato soup. The rest of us always had chicken noodle. I’m still a huge fan of chicken noodle, but for some reason tomato soup just seemed right for a dipper soup. Continue Reading