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National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day 2025

Rather appropriate for a gloomy Spring weekend, today is National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day so let’s take a bite.

Eat Them 👍🏻

There’s a couple of foods that if you see me eat them in a contest, you can tell I like them. Grilled cheese sandwiches, chicken wings, ribs, hot dogs, hamburgers, pizza. I mean, those, they go down like I was made to eat them. ~Joey Chestnut

Is there anything as simple and joyous as a basic grilled cheese sandwich?

Comfort food. Childhood staple. A toasty dish full of heart.

It feels very weekend to me, so very appropriate to the day it falls on this year.

What’s the benefit? It’s quick. It’s delicious and nutritious.

The upshot of that is that I will have that much more time for writing this weekend.

Ultimate Grilled Cheese

Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Grilled Cheese Sandwich | Ramsay Around the World

There are a myriad of options for making a grilled cheese sandwich.

You can choose something basic like American or Cheddar.

You can choose something more nuanced like Gordon’s sandwich.

I’ve had them with ham and cheese. I’ve had them with bacon and cheese.

I’ve even had them with pickles grilled in and don’t pshaw it until you’ve tried it.

What is the ultimate side with a grilled cheese sandwich?

Hands down, it’s tomato soup.

I don’t happen to enjoy tomato soup, so I think it’s fair to say that the backup ultimate side for a grilled cheese sandwich would be chips and a pickle spear.

That’s my jam. Rye bread and colby-jack grilled to perfection. A crispy kosher dill pickle spear and a copious serving of premium, kettle-cooked potato chips or possibly Munchos.

Jeez, now I’m hungry for the aforementioned sandwich. Good thing it’s grilled cheese day…

Alone

There’s a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night. ~Margaret Stohl

There’s something glamorous about the idea of a book tour. It’s the core plot point of a number of episodes of “Murder She Wrote“.

Writing a book is a dream that many people have and some actually achieve. A few of them have enough impact on the publisher’s bottom line to justify a book tour.

It would be a thrill to be able to travel from city to city doing book signings at bookstores. It would be a thrill just to actually go city to city visiting bookstores, much less signing your very own book there.

It’s not what I would call a dream of mine. It would be kind of cool, but I wouldn’t want to do a standard book tour.

What I would rather do is to already be going somewhere interesting with Kelly simply for the sake of going there and schedule extra time in the trip to do a radius book tour.

There are some Christmas-related locales around the country that I’d like to see in person. In addition to such a trip, it would be cool to map out a ten or twenty mile radius and set up some book signings. That would be how I’d do it. Of course, it wouldn’t all be exclusively Christmas sites. There are a lot of interesting places to see around the USA and it would be cool to see them plus a radius tour.

Maybe someday. Right now, I’m too damn busy.

I’ve got 13 books in The Sentinels series, 13 companion anthologies of Collateral Impact, this year’s Holiday Season Serial Romance and one for each year that it takes me to write the tridecology in its entirety.