lavanderblues

Friday, March 24, 2006

damn happy. i'd been itching to make croques for ages. and well, from what i read, they are best made with swiss gruyere cheese! and well, in sg, how the hell do u find gourmet cheeses anw. well that is, if you are me and ignorant abt such things. so anyway, I came across gruyere at jason's supermarket, raffles city basement, where i was shopping for snackfoods before ballroom! wheeses. haha. wasn't cheap, mind you, at $3.85 per 100g, and the small slab i bought for my family's breakfast tmr costing more than 9bucks... but still i was happy =)

croques are supposed to be these french grilled cheese sandwiches. croques = crunch (supposedly, si, pls correct?). therefore the sandwiches, whilst being oozy and dripping with cheese, cream and ham, are supposed to be crunchy too! haha... and gruyere is supposed to be the best cheese for making it, because it has a delicious nutty flavour (which i believe will go well with the rosemary ham i bought to go with it - i hope), and its supposed to melt really well! yeps. there're many versions of croques, but the one im making tmr, will be with buttered (on the outside) french white bread (that's what the label from the bakery said... *shrugs*) with rosemary ham, and between the ham and bread, im thinking of grating the cheese into some homemade bechamel sauce (french white sauce), and then toasting the whole thing till the cheese/sauce thingey is oozy and melty. whee! finish off with some more melted cheese on top of the whole sandwich!

god im so excited haha... and the only reason im making bechamel sauce is cos i found a v easy looking recipe for it, and i cant be bothered to go down to cold storage just to buy a bottle of sauce.

whee!

sian haha... ppl like zj is excited abt cooper, and wenkien abt his new drums and room, and me? cheese sandwiches. how silly-sounding. but if u know the amount of time i spend browsing food blogs, haha i think u'd understand =)

lin~*
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