This card is from the 1973 series, and originally appeared on the blog on March 14, 2017.

I am sharing this not just because April 12 is National Grilled Cheese Day, but because there is a GIANT update to this post. I lived in my row house at the time and had battened down the hatches for a big snow storm that was on its way to Baltimore.

So let’s go back to 13 months ago….

This seems like a pretty good tuna salad because there is a lot of stuff in it–celery, pepper, relish, lemon juice, mayo and cheese. The addition of cheese is key. Everything is better with cheese, amiright?

The thing that makes this tuna sandwich different is that it has a whole three-step process to make the sandwich. Making the sandwich, dipping the sandwich into an egg mix, and then putting the sammy on the skillet.

This sandwich was an epiphany of sorts for me because I really love grilled cheese sandwiches–you know the kind–white bread and American (FAKE) cheese. They are, like, my most favorite hungover-the-next-day comfort food. Paired with dill pickles and potato chips.

However, when I make grilled cheese, I inevitably get one side all kinds of burnt and the other side completely under-cooked. But this–THIS method–seems fool-proof. It’s like savory french toast with whatever sort of filling your little heart desires.

Now who knew that this method would result in an almost perfect grilled-type sandwich?

(update: spreading a thin layer of mayonnaise on the bread in lieu of butter/margarine also results in a good grilled cheese)

Like I said, I typically desire slices of cheese that are individually wrapped in plastic, but it’s pretty damn good with this tuna/cheese mixture, too!

Especially surprising because the phrase “tuna-cheese” always makes me go to this BAD PLACE. Truly, truly a bad place.

(For this next part, remember that Baltimore was supposed to get a big snow storm)

Monday night at about 6:30 I asked some friends to predict which one of these porch roofs would come down first during the storm:

24 hours later the answer was…

NEITHER! The snow was kind of a bust. But we did end up with a lot of ice (poor shrub).

Between the two photos, I can’t quite tell how much more damage has happened, but right now it’s lightly snowing, quite windy and it’s cooling down again, so the existing, melting snow, is gonna become big icicles.

I will keep you updated.