We’ve got teeny tiny grilled cheese sandwiches floating in our soup today! And a Panini Press giveaway sponsored by Sargento!
I was first captivated by the idea of grilled cheese croutons on Pinterest and could not wait to make some of my own. Grilled cheese and tomato soup was my all-time favorite “special” lunch growing up (and probably still is today). It was a back-to-school lunch that I didn’t actually eat at school, as it was a challenge to keep a sandwich warm during the school day and forget about trying to wrangle a hot soup in a Thermos. It was a special treat for the weekends.
Now that my own kids are starting school this week (well, preschool, but they’re excited) I’m looking forward to continuing the grilled cheese and tomato soup weekend tradition. For my Grilled Tomato Soup, I first grilled the tomatoes and onions on the panini press to help bring out their sweetness. I’ve made this soup a number of times now – including for a group of San Diego food bloggers – and everyone has loved it. I made my Grilled Cheese Croutons with Sargento Colby-Jack cheese on sourdough bread with some fresh herb butter on the outside to make them extra-crisp and savory.
Read on for my Grilled Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons recipe and a chance to win a Breville Panini Press (like the one I use!), sponsored by Sargento.
I just think these grilled cheese croutons are so cute. Obviously, they’re nothing more than a grilled cheese sandwich that’s been cut into small squares. Even though I grew up loving the yellow American slices, today I’m much more of a “natural cheese” kind of girl so the Sargento slices fit the bill. We all love to eat grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup…why not put them in the soup? My little kids thought these squares were pretty fun.
Everyone has their preferences when it comes to tomato soup. For me, it’s all about bright, fresh flavors – but I keep basil and oregano out of the mix to keep it from tasting like marinara. Instead, I go for red bell peppers, fresh parsley and thyme and a tiny bit of red pepper flakes for that lingering heat that makes you want another spoonful. Some people like to strain their soup so it’s perfectly smooth, but I like to keep the purée rustic and a little bit chunky.
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Win a Breville Panini Press! [THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED]
Thanks to the folks at Sargento, we’ve got a fabulous panini press giveaway today. This Breville Panini Press ($119.95 value) is similar to the one I’ve been using since I started this blog nearly 4 years ago. In addition, Sargento will also send the winner coupons to sample their cheese.
Here are five ways to enter, you can do any or all of them (please leave separate comments for each entry):
- Leave a comment on this post telling us your favorite childhood lunch (e.g., PB&J, cafeteria spaghetti, the fish you caught with grandpa, etc.).
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The giveaway will close on Monday, September 12, 2011 at noon PDT. [THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED] I will use random.org to select one winner to receive the Breville Panini Press and Sargento coupons and announce the winner in this post. Due to shipping costs, the prize can only be shipped to U.S. addresses.
**UPDATE 9/14/11: Congratulations to our winner – #190, Mrs. Mordecai!
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Grilled Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons
Prep time: 50 minutes | Cook time: 45 minutes | Total time: 1 hour 35 minutes
Yield: 4 servings
INGREDIENTS:
For the soup:
- 2 pounds tomatoes, halved
- 1-2 cups vegetable broth
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided
- Salt and black pepper
- 1 medium yellow onion
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 teaspoon granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
- 1 sprig fresh thyme
For the grilled cheese croutons:
- 2 tablespoons butter, softened
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh basil*
- 1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh chives*
- 1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme*
- 4 slices sourdough bread
- 6 slices Sargento Colby-Jack cheese, or other semi-firm cheese
* The herbs are optional, but they do add great flavor if you have them on hand.
DIRECTIONS:
Prepare the soup:
- Preheat the panini grill to high heat.
- Scoop out the pulp and seeds from the tomato halves into a small bowl. Place a strainer over a liquid measuring cup; pour the pulp and seeds through the strainer to collect tomato juice. Add enough vegetable broth to the measuring cup to bring the total amount of liquid to 2 cups. Set aside.
- Drizzle the cut sides of the tomato halves with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and season with sea salt and black pepper. Adjust your grill so that it is at a slight tilt (not completely flat), with drip tray in place to collect the juices that will run off. In batches, place the tomatoes, cut side down, on the grill. Close the lid, making light contact with the tomatoes without pressing them. Grill the tomatoes for 8-10 minutes until the outer skins are wrinkly and the tomatoes are soft.
- Slice the onion into 1/2-inch thick rounds (do not separate the rings). Drizzle the onions with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Place the onions on the grill. Close the lid, making light contact with the tomatoes without pressing them. Grill the onions for 4-6 minutes until they are tender.
- Transfer the onions to a cutting board, let them cool a bit and give them a rough chop.
- Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a dutch oven or large saucepan over medium heat. Add the red bell pepper and stir for 4 to 5 minutes until it begins to soften. Add in the garlic and red pepper flakes and cook for another minute. Stir in the grilled tomatoes, onions, sugar, parsley, thyme sprig and vegetable stock mixture. Bring the soup to a boil, reduce the heat and simmer uncovered for 40 minutes.
- Purée the soup either with an immersion blender or, in batches, in a blender or food processor. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot with grilled cheese croutons.
Prepare the grilled cheese croutons:
- Preheat the panini grill to medium-high heat.
- Mix the butter and herbs together in a small bowl. Spread herb butter on each slice of bread. Turn two of the bread slices over; add three slices of cheese to each slice of bread. Close each sandwich with another slice of bread, buttered side up.
- Grill the panini for 3 to 4 minutes until the cheese is melted and bread is toasted. Transfer the panini from the grill to a cutting board. Trim the crusts from the panini and cut up each sandwich into 1-inch square pieces.
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PS: Never thought of using grilled cheese as croutons, but YUM!
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Oh Kathy does this soup & croutons get me so excited for fall or what!
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I follow you on google reader, and I love seeing the different paninis you create 🙂 My favorite lunch as a kid was tuna sandwiches, mostly because my mom would cut up little pieces of sweet pickle to put in them, and put extra tuna in a container, so i could indulge even further beyond my sandwich!
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my favorite childhood meal was my moms homemade spaghetti and cheese!
Hmm, favorite lunch? Would probably have to be Kraft Mac and Cheese, although I did get a lot of odd panini-like sandwiches = fried spam, sliced and sautéed hot dogs; fried bologna.
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I don’t have a panini press but I know my kids would love these little grilled cheese croutons. When I was growing up, we would have Campbell’s tomato soup, but now I make my own tomato soup – yours sounds really good!
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my grandmother always used to make us these delicious mini pizzas when we’d go to her house with our cousins. i’ll always have fond memories of eating them in the forts we’d make.
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I was fond of good ole-fashioned lunchbox PB&Js…to the point that I still prefer mine squished (as they often were by the time I opened my lunchbox!)
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Ha, I remember you saying something on pinterest about how much you loved the grilled cheese croutons, loooove that you made them 🙂 It is a pretty stinken amazing idea! My favorite childhood lunch was simple spaghetti with butter and parmesan. That’s it.
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My Mom made grilled PB&J…I still crave them but never make them for some reason.
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My favorite was grilled cheese..still is 🙂
My favorite childhood meal was macaroni and cheese!!
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Happy Birthday yesterday!! Great contest!! I love this kind of soup, so cozy and fall-like. {do not count this as an entry, I already have a panini press 🙂 }
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peanut butter, hold the jelly. extra crust, it will make my hair curly after all! yum. yum.
Definitely fish sticks! which I thin are gross now!!
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My favorite childhood lunch was ham sandwiches. I always got sick of PBJ. Now that I’m an adult, I miss PBJ and have them for lunch or dinner sometimes 🙂
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Favorite Childhood Eats? Spaghetti! I have a classic picture of a bowl of it on my head!
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I was lucky enough to come home for lunch when I was in elementary school. My Mom always made homemade bread and I didn’t know how lucky I was for a long time. My favorite lunch was hot bread and butter if she had just made bread that morning, otherwise I had Peanut Butter sandwiches, still a favorite.
OOh this soup looks divine! My favorite lunch as a child was anything with peanut butter. PB sandwiches (NO jelly), stuffed with bananas and/ or pretzels on white. I was a bit of a picky eater.
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Oh my goodness – those croutons are fantastic! I adore tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, too and this is such a fun way to combine them.
Now that looks like the ultimate in comfort food! Whe I was growing up my mom would make me pasta & peas, it was so simple yet delicious. Sometimes she still makes it for me and it’s a special treat.
My neighbor made the best PB&J Sandwiches which was one childhood lunch I loved. I also loved our schools Poor Boy Sandiwches. So yummy!
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My favorite lunch was a hot pastrami sandwich with a big pickle on the side! There was a local deli in our town and they would build your sandwich for you– fresh pastrami from their meat market, with jack cheese and mustard, all heated up!
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Hi Kathy! My favorite childhood lunches were either a tuna sandwich or a slice of Munster cheese on white bread with salt, pepper, and mayo.
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My favorite lunch was peanut butter and dill pickle on crackers or bread. I know, I know…but I loved it.
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My favorite lunch was grilled cheese! Had one almost every day for lunch.
This is such a cute idea! My favorite lunch as a kid (and now) was a BLT 🙂
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My favorite childhood meal was spaghetti-os! :O
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Ooh… if that’s the same soup you brought to the Roundtable, it was fantastic! Never thought of grilling the tomatoes before using them in soup before.
I have to admit my favorite lunch when I was a kid was completely devoid of nutritional value – spaghetti with butter and Kraft grated Parmesan cheese (from the shaker can).
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Great way to dress up tomato soup. Kind of sad but I don’t remember many lunches growing up besides school lunch which I hated. I did eat a lot of peanut butter though.
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My favorite childhood lunch menu was Campbell’s tomato soup and buttery grilled cheese sandwiches on a cold rainy day
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Believe it or not, it was fried bologna, with ketchup! Haven’t had it in years (ok, decades), but my mother said she made it almost every day for me.
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My favorite childhood lunch was a tomato sandwich with cheddar cheese and mayo…..toasted made it even better!
Kathy, I loved grilled cheese sandwiches back then and now! I love your clever idea of grilled cheese croutons. I have wanted a panini maker forever! Crossing my fingers. 🙂
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My favorite childhood lunch was hot dogs stuffed with cheese and rolled in a crescent roll.
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Oh my…the thought of a combination of grilled cheese with tomato soup?!?!
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My favorite lunch as a kid was most likely PB&J,,,who didn’t love em as kids?
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I already follow you on twitter, but hadn’t found you on facebook until today! I remember the peanut butter rice krispie bars at the school lunch were SO good I could eat just that with a milk and be happy.
I loved PB&J (grape jelly, crunchy peanut butter and crust on!) and scooped melon and cantaloupe balls as a snack!
This looks delicious! It feels like fall…
I grew up in Hawaii, so my favorite homemade lunch was teriyaki chicken and musubis 🙂
I guess my favorite was cream of tomato soup, because Mom didn’t mind when we sang this stupid song and slurped our soup at the end of each line. “I’m a big ol’ meanie (slurp). I’m a big ol meanie. (slurp) I’m a big ol’ meanie, miney, mo (slurp slurp).” Must have been something we’d seen in a cartoon.
Without a doubt, my favorite childhood lunch was a simple bowl of Campbell’s Condensed Chicken Noodle Soup and saltine crackers. I’d dunk the saltines in the soup and make little, wet sandwiches out of them and the noodles. I used to eat those everyday. Amazingly, my blood pressure is perfectly normal!
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Fav lunch was anything with my Grandma, but especially pierogis!
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Great giveaway, Kathy. And love the soup and sandwich combo. My favourite childhood lunch was a pb and honey sandwich, with creamed (solid) honey. I especially loved it when the honey would have little lumps in it, they were so sweet!
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I love your grilled cheese croutons! I’ve always had a love of pb&j!
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My best friend’s Mom used to make the BEST homemade mac and cheese. She would send leftovers in to elementary school for lunch for the two of us to share! I wish I could make it like she did. I can still remember the taste almost 30 years later!! So good!
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My favorite childhood lunch was chicken noodle soup & a grilled cheese (made with white cheese only) 😉
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I grew up on a farm in rural Nebraska (actually, I live on a different farm in rural Nebraska, now, too) and the lunch ladies were my peers’ grandmas so everything was homemade. Our favorite meal, hands-down, was chili and cinnamon rolls.
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My favorite lunch was late Sunday afternoon at my best friends house, grilled cheese with bottled peaches and pears. Yum! To this day I can’t eat grilled cheese without thinking of my neighbors. Thanks for the memories!
Oh, my goodness, the grilled cheese sandwich sounds wonderful. I used to really love sharing a bowl of those grody Ramen noodles with my mom for lunch. That was before we knew better, of course. But I loved trying to divide the long noodles evenly between two bowls so we’d each have an equal share and neither get stiffed. She always let me make them, and I felt very grown up boiling the water on the stove.
That is the best idea, I love the mini grilled cheeses floating in the soup! My lunches growing up were pretty boring I have to admit. I liked peanut butter (still love it) and I made peanut butter sandwiches. That’s it, no jelly just peanut butter, and I loved them.
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YUMMY! this looks so amazing, I love how you grill your onions and tomatoes on the panini press, genius!
My favorite was always a classic peanut butter and jelly sandwich! I also went through a phase where I obsessed over peanut butter and fluff sandwiches!
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P.B.J. and tomato soup was my favorite lunch when I was a youngster. Hey, it’s still a favorite. Guess one never out grows comfort food.
My mom used to make pink and green sandwiches for us as kids. She’d cut the crust off and add food coloring to a tuna/cream cheese mixture she made. They were so fun that I didn’t mind the wheat bread (almost). That and nachos were probably my favorite lunch foods.
I loved pesto bagels with turkey!
Oh! And tuna burgers! Diced onion + grated cheddar cheese + canned tuna + mayonnaise + chopped celery, put in hamburger buns, wrapped in foil and cooked in the oven = YUMMY! I guess I like tuna a lot. huh, I never realized…
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For me, it was Cream Cheese and Jelly sandwiches. My Mom used to trim the crusts and cut them into little triangles, sending me and my best friend off with those and other treats for little picnic lunches. 🙂
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My favorite childhood lunch was chicken and grape salad in a pita!
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Great idea by the way. I can’t wait to try these. We love grilled cheese sandwiches made on jalapeno bread. That would be great in the soup!
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This looks so good! My favorite childhood snack had to be grilled cheese – my way though! Sourdough bread, jack cheese, Flagship cheese (from Beecher’s in Seattle), heirloom tomato, and bacon. YUM! It’s heavenly.
I can only imagine how good it would be made in the panini press.
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I loved Peanut Butter and Banana sandwiches growing up…with a cool glass of milk!
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My favorite childhood lunch would have to be tomato soup and grill cheese. Always made on Wonderbread of course!
I’m not such a big fan anymore, but I had to have a tuna sandwich every single day in first grade. Your soup looks fabulous!
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I love a Grilled cheese sandwich with a thick slice of tomato!!! Yumm
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My favorite childhood lunch was bologna and cheese sandwich, apple slices, and oatmeal cookies, the best!!!
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I used to be picky about eating sandwiches for lunch because they would get soggy. So my mom used to take rice cakes, put peanut butter on top and added a smiley face with chocolate chips and raisins. Then she would put toothpicks on top and put it in a sandwich back so it wouldn’t stick. Yum 🙂
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oh that looks sooo delicious!! comfort food at its finest.
my favorite meal growing up was the school cafeteria spagetti with cheese on top. i loved getting the corner pieces because of the slightly burned cheese!! yummmmmmm.
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I still remember skillet potatoes with ground beef. That was sure to be served at least once a week as I’ve found out now it’s easy to make and everyone loves it so it’s a perfect weeknight meal.
My favorite lunch was my grandfather’s creamed peas & new potatoes.
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My favorite childhood lunch WAS tomato soup with a grilled cheese sandwich!
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I love love loved tomato basil soup (homemade or LaMadeline’s) and grilled cheese. It is the ultimate comfort food. As I sit at home sick, I wish I had some right now.
We looked forward to having either P&J or Grilled Cheese with Campbell’s tomato soup. Both were delicious.
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My dad would make me peanut butter and Karo syrup sandwiches when I was a kid…he’d mix the syrup and peanut butter together and spread between two pieces of white bread…what’s not to love?
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I love this idea! Great recipe! I was sort of a weird kid…I didn’t like cheese and I *definitely* didn’t like PB&J. Instead, I brought along that thermos, usually full of some version of chicken noodle soup and little baggies of raw vegetables. And a fruit roll-up, of course!
My favorite lunch was definitely Mcdonald’s Big Mac or Albertsons fried chicken…lol my parents did not like to cook for us so we ate that often. 🙂
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For me, I think one of my favorite childhood lunches was when my mom packed me some bun mei (Vietnamese hoagies). I’ve always liked the pate and the sweet mayo on the baguette.
Another favorite would be your good ol’ salami sandwich with tomatoes, lettuce, and a lil bit of mayo. I would stuff with some yellow potato chips before eating it to add an extra crunchy and salty texture 🙂
My favorite childhood lunch was my mom’s fried rice. Hot dogs sliced into little rounds with egg strips with rice. Plain and simple… I like to kick it up a notch these days using Chinese Sausage and chopped green onions as well as yellow onions. 🙂 Made many meals of that in college haha.
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My favorite lunch was the one from my childhood friend’s mom – peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiches. I had no idea they had a name until just a few years ago, Fluffernutters.
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Tomato soup was definitely one of my favorite childhood lunches!
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My favorite childhood lunch was vegetable beef soup with grilled cheese.
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My favorite school lunch when I was little was a package of Grandma’s Double chocolate chip cookies and a Coke. I know it was not very well balanced, but I never liked school lunches and have a very big sweet tooth! 🙂
I loved vegetable soup and grilled cheese! And yes, I still do. I want this panini press so that I can make all your delicious sandwiches!!!!
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I always loved the school lunch feistada! Those were delicious!
Honestly, my favorite lunch was cafeteria spaghetti. In the 3rd grade, I ate it for 21 consecutive days, and I have the weight to prove it!!!
My favorite lunch as a child was the “steak fingers” from the school cafeteria. In quotation marks, because who really knows if they were steak, but they sure did taste yummy! 😛 I looked forward to them anytime I saw them on the calendar. Man, those were the good ol’ days.
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My favorite childhood lunch was pizza!
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Fave childhood lunch: my mom’s tomato soup w/grilled cheese sandwiches. (I love your idea of grilled cheese croutons.) This is still one of my favorite comfort meals!
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My favorite childhood lunch was pb&j!!!!
This was actually one of my favorite childhood lunches… grilled cheese and tomato soup, we had this all the time, my dad loved it too.
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Sounds weird, but my fav childhood sandwich was cream cheese and green olives.
I am subscribed to Panini Happy’s RSS Feeds! Lets Go Panini Press!!! I am totally craving the Grilled Tomato Soup with Grilled Cheese Croutons!!
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my favorite lunch growing up as a kid, honestly was tomato soup with grilled cheese !!! melt in your mouth !
Hi!
I have to say that either grilled cheese or pb& j were my faves. I loved grilled cheese but we hardly ever had that. Today grilled cheese sammies are a comfort food for me. 🙂
Thanks so much for the chance!
~Mippy 🙂
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My absolute favorite childhood lunch was memories from Middle School Cafeteria Lunch. I absolutely love the cafeteria Spaghetti and French Fries!! 🙂
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Hi! Nice to meet you! Found you from my friend, Sargento on FB, which led me to liking panini happy as well! Those “croutons” look delicious! I think one of my favorite lunches when I was young was my nana’s homemade sopa, but a panini would have gone great with it! 🙂
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Thanks so much for the chance!
~Mippy 🙂
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My favorite childhood lunch was the same as yours – grilled cheese and tomato soup 🙂
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Thanks so much for the chance!
~Mippy 🙂
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I already like Sargento on FB, that’s how I found this blog
A steak hoagy(in Cincinnati the steak is like a oblong beef patty with Italian spices) the onions, pickles, prov cheese and heavy catsup,,,,yum yumm
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Thanks so much for the chance!
~Mippy 🙂
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I guess my favorite childhood lunch was grilled cheese. It didn’t happen very often. Maybe that’s what made it so special.
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I REMEMBER MY GRANDMA FIXIN ME CHICKEN NOODLE SOUP, MESSY, OOY, GOOY, GRILLED CHEESE AND ROOTBEER FLOATS WITH HOME MADE ICECREAM. IT WAS SO GOD AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE MEMORIES OF HER. I LOVE AND MISS YOU GRANDMA SO MUCH. WISH YOU WERE STILL HERE.
I hope I win the panini press so I can put this foil wrapped brick back in the foundation of the house 🙂
Oy My Goodness I still love mac & cheese with a hotdog on the side, what a great lunch idea.
I LOVED grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch when I was a young whippersnapper. 🙂
My daughter LOVES tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches, and these look great. I would love to make these for her, it’s an interesting twist on a easy lunch.
I was a huge PB&J girl!! You can’t beat a classic 🙂
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My favorite lunch in the winter was tomoto soup and grilled cheese sandwiches. I can’t wait to try this recipe. Thanks.
Love grilled cheese with cheddar as a child. And now my children love it too.
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I liked Sargento on FB. A grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup lunch takes me back to my childhood. It’s one of my favorite lunches even today….especially with Sargento cheese!
I am such a grilled cheese and tomato soup person so thank you for the great recipe. My fondest memories were of my dad and I making grilled cheese and ‘mater soup on Saturday evenings when I was growing up. My taste buds have matured since the processed cheese and canned soup of childhood but it remains my number 1 comfort food.
scrambled eggs in the microwave. my grandma made them and they were always super fluffy and the best tasting egss i ever had!
My favorite lunch as a kid was any kind of sandwich…and still is!
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grilled cheese and tomato soup.. always my favorite lunch always will be!! Yummy
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My favorite childhood lunch was tomato soup and lime jello. I even carried that to school through high school.
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Leftovers from the last nights dinner….and grilled cheese sandwiches with sweet pickles.
Grilled cheese, always yummy!
Thanks for the contest!
I already like Sargento’s on FB which led me here! I like PaniniHappy too! My favorite lunch as a child was an ooey gooey tuna melt – sure would have been easy with your wonderful panini press! Bet I could make a favorite lunch every day!
My fav. lunch was the pigs in a blanket that my mom use to make. we didnt get them very often cause they were a chore to make for 5 kids put they were a great treat when we did get them. Thanks for the give away. very excited
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My favorite childhood lunch was (and still is) tomato soup and grilled cheese! With your recipe I might try to make the soup myself!
Thanks for the contest.
I am now a twitter follower! I am ready to win!!
I love grilled cheese, I’m super excited to make these croutons to put in my tomato soup!
I loved to have big bowl of tomato soup and a grilled American cheese sandwich. The absolute best!!!
My favorite childhood lunch was grilled ham &cheese croissant with tomato soup.
Now I want it! 🙂
My favorite childhood lunch growing up was a peanut butter and jelly sandwich with Nacho Cheese Doritos inside! Yummmm! Sounds horrible, but don’t knock it until you’ve tried it! Delish!!!!!!! 😀
The little sandwiches are so cute!! And that soup looks just right as the days get colder.
On a side note, I’ve made ice cream cones on pizzelle irons before, but I am impressed by your panini press cone!
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I would love a panini maker. My baby boy is finally eating solid foods and with a kitchenette, its hard to make him heathy delicious food. This would help!
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grilled cheese sandwiches
Sourdough bread Lots of real salted butter & of course good cheese…
Still my favorite sandwich & now I m 45 years old 😉
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My favorite lunch was quesadillas…still love them!
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I love this idea! Great job with the blog!
When I was a lad, I couldn’t resist salami roll-ups with cream cheese. Mom could always get my four brothers and I to sit down and stop acting crazy when she put out a plate of those things! I would also eat anything with fresh tomato and a pickle involved.
I think my favorite food from childhood would have to be homemade vegetable soup with either homemade sour cream cornbread or grilled cheeses. Like someone else said, it was and still is comfort food. When dining on this simple, yet filling, meal, everything seems right with the world. Love the “crouton” idea! This should be a hit with my girls!
My favorite is cream of tomato soup , grilled cheese with dill pickle slices inside
As a kid I loved grilled cheese my mom made, the old fashioned way….TONS of butter on both sides of the bread!! Now I hope I win this panini press so I can make them without so much butter!!
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BLT lunch, supper, anytime
Tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich has been a lunchtime favorite of mine since shildhood.
I wasa creature of habit as a child- mostly PB & J, yogurt, banana, etc. But I remember my mom making me a Reuben sandwich for the first time and I loved it! Who knew?
My favorite lunch was a lunchmeat sandwich with mayo, lettuce, tomato and potato chips.
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I loved having grilled cheese sandwiches and tomato soup for lunch or dinner as a child ~ still do! 🙂
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My favorite childhood lunch definitely involved a peanut butter and marshmallow sandwich! And most likely a Capri Sun.
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My favorite childhood lunch was the grilled cheese sandwiches my grandma used to make me. 🙂
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Just recently found your blog and LOVE it! We try to have Panini Night once a week, so we will be trying all of your wonderful recipes. I used to love my mom’s baked mac n cheese for lunch. Now following you on FB!
I loved BLT in my lunch when I was a kid
My favorite lunch as a kid was a grilled ham and cheese sandwich (I liked panini-style food even then!).
My favorite childhood lunch is definitely a turkey sandwich – gotta love it! Made on a panini press…even better! 🙂
My mom used to buy Pepperidge Farm hoagie rolls and bake them, and fried Polish sausage so we could make sandwiches – they were wonderful! Something about the soft, warm bread with the toasted cornmeal on the crust, and the sausage with the lovely mustard seeds inside. Perfect on a fall day! Wonder if you could do that with a pannini press? Since I don’t have one . . . (hint, hint!) . . .would be fun to find out!
Grilled cheese was always my favorite lunchtime food. Still is…especially on chilly days!! The best is on sourdough bread with cheddar cheese!!
Your whole blog ties in perfectly to my current Happy Post. The theme is Grilled Cheese. Please link up a few of your favorites 🙂 http://su.pr/1R06Od
I love grilled cheese. I also liked peanut butter and crackers for a snack when I was younger. And I still do.