Rose's New Year Shop Watch: Posh Cheese on Toast

Posh cheese on toast

Marks and Spencer

What?
Posh cheese on toast

Why?
Pure comfort food 

At the beginning of this New Year I feel in the need of comfort food and not deprivation food. So all those strong willed and on a diet look away now – or at least until February. I just find the months of January and February never-ending and a bit bleak. So, for this reason, I have sought out the ultimate in comfort food – cheese on toast!

However this is not an ordinary cheese on toast as its name makes clear – it is a posh take on this simple humdrum dish. It is a mixture of mature Cheddar cheese and double cream, combined with Dijon mustard and Worcester sauce and comes as a firm paste, which you spread onto bread, preferably sour dough. Just take it out of the fridge about 5-10 minutes beforehand to soften a little. Toast one side of your slice of bread then spread liberally on the untoasted side, smothering it right to the outer corners, and grill. There is enough for 2 slices of bread so one portion is either enough for one hungry person, or for two for a light lunch with some dressed salad leaves.

It has a mild flavour with an almost creamy consistency and goes a wonderful bubbling golden colour under the grill. If you want to give it some more oomph you can always add a few drops of Worcester sauce just before eating.

Now, of course, you can make your own posh cheese on toast using one of Delia’s recipes: Welsh Rabbit (Rarebit) with Sage and Onions or, if you have any Stilton left over from Christmas, Stilton Rarebit. But I am taking it easy this month and using this short cut to a perfect cheese on toast, to eat in front of a box set on the TV.

Conclusion:
Molten gold

Product Details:
M&S Posh Cheese on Toast
145g - enough for 2 slices
£3

Contact:
M&S Customer Services
0333 014 8555
 

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Availability and price as at 31st December 2017

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