When I was 13 or 14, I had a good friend named Ola. Sometimes I’d go to her house after school. She was studious and curious and shy, like me, and we spent hours happily reading quietly in ...

The recipe includes three different options—curried chicken salad, ham and cheese, and a scrumptious smoked salmon and cucumber sandwich. Get the Tea Sandwiches recipe. Caitlin Bensel.

This is essentially a fancy grilled ham and cheese sandwich. You layer bechamel sauce onto bread, add layers of ham and gruyere cheese, and then bake it to perfection.

With one simple addition, you take a ham and cheese sandwich from bland and boring to complex and satisfying. Related: Fans Call This the ‘Best Sandwich on Planet Earth’ So I Gave It a Try.

For this hot ham and cheese sandwich, it's all about a few key add-ons, one of which is used in an unexpected way. Naturally, we've included mustard here, but we mix it with apricot preserves for ...