My kids love grilled cheese and so do I. Sometimes I want to make mine a little more grown up but I don’t want to do any extra work. Tonight I made tomato basil soup and grilled cheese with pesto. It was so delicious.
For the tomato basil soup all you need is two ingredients a jar of pasta sauce and one cup of milk. I used Newmans Own tomato basil pasta sauce. Heat your sauce and milk in a sauce pan and serve. I came across this recipe when I was looking for a way to use up the dozens of jars of sauce we have stacking up in the basement. My husband works for a company that makes all different store and name brand pasta sauces. I was a little skeptical at first but pasta sauce really does make excellent tomato soup.
For the pesto grilled cheese I use jarred pesto from Progresso. I love pesto but it doesn’t make sense to make it myself in the winter when there’s no basil growing in my garden and honestly the jarred stuff is pretty darn good. The only difference from making this and a regular grilled cheese is that you spread pesto on one half of your sandwich before you grill it. This is a great, quick and satisfying work night meal. The best part is that the kids can have their grilled cheese and I can have mine (on gluten free bread of course).
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You’re right about it not being feasible to make your own pesto in the winter. But you could always make extra during the Summer months and freeze it. Freeze it in small batches by portioning it out into ice cube trays. Then when you just need a small amount of pesto you can defrost 1 pesto ice cube.
You definitely can do that. That’s a great way to preserve herbs in general. You can chop them up or grind them and add a little water and then pop them out when you need them. Or I keep my cubes in ziplock bags after they’re frozen, they take up less room that way.
Unfortunately I didn’t plan that far ahead this year. Canned pesto is actually a new discovery for me. I one didn’t know it existed and two wouldn’t have thought it would be very good. But it’ll do in pinch and I am a bit of a pesto fan.