Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup

There are some things about growing up that you just don't forget. For me, there are several things that will bring back so many memories, but nothing like Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup.

Mom can make some of the most wonderful meals. Really, I've never had a better lasagna or meat loaf or bowl of chili (although, I have to admit with the tweaks that we've been making to the recipe, mine may have the edge over Theresa's). But my favorite meal of hers was probably the easiest. Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup.

She always had the ingredients. She was always willing to make it. And I can't think of a time she burnt it. Every Friday night in high school I would come home and get ready for the football or basketball game and before I left she'd always make me Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup.

On snow days we would come in from playing outside and hang out all of our snow clothes in front of the fire and run upstairs in our long johns to eat Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup.

So yesterday that is what Dan and I did. We dug out my car... and our house and then came in for lunch. I've never been more thrilled than when Dan looked at me and said, "This is the best grilled cheese I've ever had." I told him I learned from the best!

So I have to say that Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup is my favorite meal. I think it's because it doesn't change. I think it's because anybody can make it (John perfected the meal by the time he was seven and is probably the best grilled cheese chef since our mom). And I think it's because I can be anywhere... going through anything and if I have this meal, I automatically feel better.

Every day we get to each lunch for free up at the restaurant... amazing work perk if you ask me, but sometimes I have to forgo the award winning lunch buffet, and walk across the street to the food court at Water Tower Place... and pay $10.00 for Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup! There really just isn't anything like it.