If you have ripe tomatoes......

Usual grilled cheese with sliced tomato and bacon.

Grill it open faced so you can add the tomato right at the end before shutting her up.

Kind of a variation of the BLT.

Nope. It becomes grilled cheese, with ham. :D

BTW, people who put mayo on their grilled cheese are weird.

there are other ways? **** that.

I cook some bacon or Ham, butter one side of each slice of bread, throw some more butter down on the skillet, throw two slices of cheese and the meat of choice between the bread and grill.

And you can never have too much butter....or cheese.

You have to be sure to put the meat in between the slices of cheese, of course.

Here are some more from a great food blog I follow:

http://closetcooking.blogspot.com/20...andwiches.html

WTF man.

There is nothing "Boring" about a grilled cheese sandwich. The simplicity is part of what makes them so awesome.

And putting mushrooms on a grilled cheese sandwich? That's blasphemis.

Butter the outsides of the bread and roll it in crushed up potato chips. Unbelievable.

Ok that's a new one I've never heard of.

Mango and Cardamom jam on a GCS......jesus....

That sounds pretty damn good.

It's a mango cardamom jam, not actual slices of mango and cardamom pods. Basically a chutney.

The whole ethnic fusion shit is big now.

I'll tell you what, I love me a good grilled cheese. Here is what I do when I feel like making a fantastic one.

Bread: White is probably the most common, but Sourdough or artisan bread is better IMO.
cheeses: you can go with just about any cheese you like that melts well. I like to spread the bread with cream cheese first on both sides (YUM!), then slices of cheddar, provolone and swiss. I like a nice 4 cheese all melting goodness into each other.

butter the bread on the outside and grill until it's melted!

For me, tomato soup with plenty of Sriracha mixed in with some basil and black pepper is the perfect addition to your grilled cheese sammich.

This, this this. I always add Sriracha to my bowls of tomato soup now. Even better with a grilled cheese... also keeps my little kids from eating my soup... though it's funny as hell when they want a bite and won't take, "no, it's spicy" for an answer.

I was raised on Campbell's soups, so Campbell's Tomato Soup is tomato soup to me (comfort food type of thing). One of my favorite lunches used to be grilled cheese, a bowl of tomato soup (with a crap ton of saltines, of course) and big glass of milk.

Since Campbell's insists on putting wheat in their soups, I can't eat that any more and haven't been able to find a decent replacement. All of the other ones that I have tried have tasted like Spaghetti-O's. :Lin:

I miss that.

I don't know about canned, but Mark Bittman has a couple of really easy tomato soup recipes. I especially like his roasted winter tomato soup:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/...mato-soup.html