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ROUND UP 2 day TX Music Festival featuring 8 BANDS!!! FRIDAY. November 3rd ROGER CREAGER SLY LETTER M I L H O U S E SATURDAY. November 4th CORY MORROW BRUCE ROBISON OWEN TEMPLE DUB MILLER COODER GRAW LIVE AT HARRY’S Buy your pre-sale tickets at Pother’s, Loupot’s, and Harry’s Page 4 AGGIELIFE Wednesday, November l.f^ ec * nL ' THE BATTALION Grilled-cheese gourmet Van C that instar The simplicity of this easy sandwich can make anyone a ch I do not know how to cook — to “Cooking with Julia Childs” and “Yen Can Cook” addicts, a more irritating statement has never been made. Humanity as a whole has held a firm grip on this most basic of human functions since a caveman prepared the first lizard flambe with a stick, a gecko and a flint-lighted fire. Now, in these mar velous days of the information superhighway, fuel-inject ed engines and Sega Dreamcast, the assertion that one can not master the task of preparing a decent-tasting meal is ludicrous. For those who have dared to utter this blas phemous fallacy, 1 pose the ultimate example of cooking ease grilled cheese sandwich. Many would say that this simple dish is the main stay of the cooking im paired who are forever doomed to a life of microwavable din ners and dining out at cheap fast-food restaurants. Nothing could be further from the truth. The grilled cheese sand wich, in its ultimate simplicity, de mands all of the essential elements of cooking: ingenuity, timing and remedial measurement skills. With these skills, you can make a souffle blindfolded. istance t for t tectioi The directions for making this layman’s delicacy involve nothingr | than toasting two pieces of bread, buttering them and then slapping twop^Jj;/^ of sandwich-cut cheese in between (the heat from the toasting is usi ., 11 , enough to melt the cheese). *j^ l But why stop with the basics? Commonly, good, old-fashionedj a can cheese is used, but for an extra zest, throw in some pepper jack ofl! some terey jack. If you are in the mood for pizza but do not feel like ordering. Conce use some mozzarella and add a little tomato or spaghetti sauce forapilBopt an( grilled cheese sandwich. You can even add on some n, jshment * ^ jg rooms or some of your favorite toppings. Per: dents ca ind onions can turn a mundane sand Cleve sai into a delicacy. ‘ If you are preparing gnl ' cheese for someone who is y pecially health-consci any convenience or t eery store will usi have a variety of rORI "ontin free cheeses taste almost as & as the real But stay away!r| age in riedma irgeted ome at imilies 10,000 the tofu cheeseffi° r c0 " e tofu never tastes gaff The A low-fat buttersute tute is also suggestedl this instance. For an occasion when guests arec fng over, nothing makes a better, easy-M ere> an( prepare snack tray than grilled cheese si: | n d yoi wiches. For an extra touch, try cutting the sandwia tioned 1 How should we protect the rights of artists in a digital world? Get the online music debate from a different point-of-view. ARTISTS Af=, CT PIRACY www.ArtistsAgainstPiracy.com into different shapes with cookie cutters. Gig ’em cookie cutters can! body,” I found at several stores around town for watching the Aggies play. If you a tinning] a Dallas Cowboys fan, star cookie cutters are about as easy to find as beer together Northgate. , ii liaving; Speaking of beer, for those of legal age, grilled cheese sandwichesgogre outside with domestic drafts, and for those who do not drink, grilled cheese woii Two well with most types of soda. Bhan 82 Those with a wonderfully equipped kitchen have no excuse fore Ire in ft preparing this delicious staple of college life. The bread can be prepar; ditionec in a toaster oven, toaster, oven, or even browned in a frying pan. But for those in residence halls, even this remedial cooking can be a challenge. Normally, the only cooking device allowed the residence hall rooms is a microwave, but these generally succeed only in making bread hot and soggy. To overcome this problem, > you can use the “crisping trays” from microwavable pizza or Bagel Bite boxes to heat the bread without making it soggy. Just put the sandwich in one crisping tray and stack another on top of it. This will not brown the bread, but the sandwich taste does not suffer much. Keep in mind that most halls also of- ently r ower-c pus. Me ainin; hey kn hey kr nto \v all, B1 “It’s vacant his all people Hai BRADLEY ATCHISON/Tm: Battali fer some sort of outside grill that can be used, if you actually do want to mw a legitimate “grilled” cheese sandwich. News in Brief Singer Elton John sues accountants LONDON (AP) — Elton John is taking his top accountants to court to recoup millions of dollars in touring costs he claims they mistakenly charged him. The 53-year-old singer and pianist is suing PricewaterhouseCoopers and Andrew Haydon, former manag ing director of John Reid Enterprises (JREL). Both companies looked af ter his business interests. Both parties deny wrongdoing. Court proceedings in the case be gan Monday. John is expected to be called as a witness during the trial, expected to last eight weeks. John claims both showed negli gence by allowing JREL to charge him tour expenses, including book ing agents, accountants and produc ers. Under a management agreement, JREL was responsible for meeting those costs, the prosecution argued. Exactly how much money the rock star claims to have lost has not been revealed, although British newspapers reported Tuesday the amount topped $29 million. Celebrities donate art work to auction APPLE VALLEY, Calif. (AP)- The High Desert Youth Center: Victorville got some star power ini] efforts to raise money for perform^ arts classes. The after-school program seij various celebrities letters and chi dren’s watercolor sets asking them® create works of art that could be sol] during an online auction. Bill Cosby returned a watercoH painting of a tree, along with asof portive letter. Other paintings w returned by James Earl Jones $ Melissa Joan Hart, star of the TVs ries “Sabrina The Teen-age Witch. ym m Chelsea Clinton may go to Oxford SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP)' Chelsea Clinton said she was not)® sure what she would do after grad® ating from Stanford University,^ said she did have a “few ideas." i rr eluding the possibility of studyi": economics at Oxford. 21 st CENTURY JUDGMENT DAY All-Faiths Chapel 8:30 P.M. Thursday November 2 The day is approaching when the victory of thy Lord, the Ever-For giving, the Most Bountiful, will be proclaimed. -Baha’u’lloh