Meaty with a dash of veggies
Grilled cheese and green onion kimchi sandwich
There were at least three grilled cheese sandwich recipes in the old blog but none was republished in this one. The reason? I wanted better photos to go with them. And I did intend to take new ones. Then, I came across a very Asian grilled cheese sandwich and I decided that I won’t be reproducing the old recipes after all. Instead, treat this as the first of many Asian-inspired grilled cheese sandwich recipes.
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