Travel: Making dinner in a hotel with tin foil and an iron

Are you staying in a hotel with only a mini fridge and a microwave for longer than just a couple nights? Are you trying to save some money and not eat out every night? Do microwave dinners make you cringe?

Well, that was our thought on our vacation last fall. We did have some microwave meals and sandwiches and chips and clearly we ate out a couple times. Anyway, we did our best to come up with an idea. We tried to be creative, and decided to take advantage of the iron that was in our room. We ended up making 2 different meals this way (grilled cheese and quesedillas).

First, you need to buy your supplies. You will definitely need some tin foil no matter what you're cooking. For grilled cheese, you will need sliced cheese, some butter (which we swiped from the free breakfast at our hotel), and bread. For quesedillas, you will need mexican shredded cheese, chicken (we got the carving board packaged lunch meat), and some salsa (for dipping of course).

Grilled Cheese:
Tear off a large piece of tin foil, butter your bread, and put the cheese between it. Place it off to one side of the foil, then fold the foil over the sandwich. Put the iron on top of the foil. Peak in the foil and make sure your sandwich is done on this side and when it is, flip the entire foil/sandwich over and cook the other side. It's quite easy.

Quesedillas:
This is made the same way. Tear off a piece of tin foil a little larger than your tortilla. Put your cheese and chicken (or whatever you decide to put in it) on one side of your tortilla. Fold the tortilla in half and cover with the foil. Put the iron on top of the foil. Peak inside and when the quesedilla is done on this side, flip it over and cook the other side.