grilled cheese please!

A vegetarian (not vegan; she eats milk and cheese and eggs) friend is coming to visit next weekend. I thought I would make a roasted red pepper bisque (substituting veggie broth/stock for chicken) and perhaps a meatless shepherd's pie from a couple of recipes. Not for the same meal, of course.

I thought the bisque would be a good variation on the old favorite of tomato soup and grilled cheese sandwich. Now what I need is a variation on the sandwich itself. Do any of you have any nontraditional sandwich recipes? Maybe you use a particular kind(s) of cheese or bread that's really very good? I'm looking for something that isn't the usual Kraft slices/white bread mixture. (I've used swiss and sharp cheddar before, and they're not bad.)

While I'm at it, I guess I should ask if any of you have any good vegetarian recipes - anything that doesn't use meat, basically. (Again, if it uses animal stock, I can substitute for that.) Oh, and no gelatin or marshmallows either.

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