The Perfect Sandwich?
What's your perfect sandwich?
Lately, mine has been the following:
-Three seed organic wheat bread from Wegman's (nicely toasted)
-Hot or sweet sopressata
-Roasted red peppers
AND (generously applied to the bread)
either: Extra virgin olive oil, salt, and pepper
or: horseradish
Buffalo mozzarella adds a nice light touch if you have it.
Slice diagonally.
So what's yours?
Lately, mine has been the following:
-Three seed organic wheat bread from Wegman's (nicely toasted)
-Hot or sweet sopressata
-Roasted red peppers
AND (generously applied to the bread)
either: Extra virgin olive oil, salt, and pepper
or: horseradish
Buffalo mozzarella adds a nice light touch if you have it.
Slice diagonally.
So what's yours?
Comments
*Shudder*
Mine:
Toasted wheat bread w/ seeds & stuff on crust
Sliced California Avocado?
Barely any mayo. (like "applied by accident than removed" thickness)
Fresh home-grown tomato
Salt & Pepper
Optional: Bacon or lettuce.
BTW fresh avocado sandwiches are delicious!
A cinnamon raisin bagel with raisin walnut cream-cheese from Ess-a-Bage on first ave. Yummy!
A home made BLT on lightly toasted multi-grain bread with a bit mayonnaise.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwich on white bread.
Turkey on a roll with iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise, with potato salad and some chips.
Prime Rib on garlic bread.
I could go on, but I'm making myself hungry...
Big fan of...
Hot roast beef with horseradish
Pastrami and gherkin
Parma ham and mozarella
in any kind of fresh granary bread
Hungry now
Originally posted by ShawnJ
If I overdosed too much for you on the Italian, wait until you hear Splinemodel's mayo-covered perfect sandwich. . .
Someone ring?
Ever since moving out of sandwich country (the area between Philly and NYC) I've forgotten a lot there is to know about sandwiches. But I did stop in town a few months ago to pick up an annual "heartstopper," which is a cheesesteak with bacon and 2 fried eggs on top, slathered in Russian dressing. The secret is that it has to be cooked on a grill that is never cleaned (due in part to the 24hr nature of the store). It's history in a sandwich!
As far as late night snacks, the one I think you're talking about is the ever popular mayonnaise sandwich. Tasty, but you need good mayonnaise, such as Helman's orignal. Kraft or anything with the word "light" in it won't cut it. I've also dabbled in a new sandwich lately, which is mayonnaise, peanut butter, honey, and whatever else you can throw in there (bananas work well). The secret is you have to fry it up in a skillet also filled with mayo. After coming back from a 13 mile run or a long day at a 6-a-side soccer tournament, it will get you back on your feet.
Originally posted by Res
Turkey on a roll with iceberg lettuce and mayonnaise, with potato salad and some chips.
I like leftover turkey, cranberry sauce, and horseradish on whatever bread remains from Thanksgiving dinner.
My favorite 2 are chunky peanut butter and strawberry preserves on toasted honey wheat bread. The second which I always get when in NY is a reuben that is stacked so high with cornbeef, sauerkraut, swiss cheese and sauce that it hurts your mouth trying to get a bite.
reg
Originally posted by reg
Frying something in mayo !!!! I can feel my arteries clogging already.
Eh, it's not much worse than oil. Mayo is actually less detrimental than butter, since butter is 80-90% saturated fat, and mayo is mostly unsaturated. I have pretty good cholesterol numbers.
However, I could actually feel my arteries crying for help when I fried 8 pieces of bacon, noticed how much molten lard would go to waste, and decided to fry 3 pieces of bread in the excess. That was a few months ago.
A friend of mine is renowned for making strawberry jam sandwiches, then deep-frying them in lard.
As one might expect, he is extremely large, and I suspect that his cholesterol numbers are rubbish compared to Splinemodel's.
Even so, I agree that the word 'light' is seldom a good thing in a sandwich
Originally posted by Splinemodel
As far as late night snacks, the one I think you're talking about is the ever popular mayonnaise sandwich. Tasty, but you need good mayonnaise, such as Helman's orignal. Kraft or anything with the word "light" in it won't cut it. I've also dabbled in a new sandwich lately, which is mayonnaise, peanut butter, honey, and whatever else you can throw in there (bananas work well). The secret is you have to fry it up in a skillet also filled with mayo. After coming back from a 13 mile run or a long day at a 6-a-side soccer tournament, it will get you back on your feet.
Concerning Mayo, a chef friend of mine once told me that commercial mayo in most countries taste strange because you really have to use raw egg yolks to get the real mayo taste. Because of salmonella you can get mayo based on raw egg in only a very few countries. Such as Norway, where eggs are guaranteed salmonella free.
I don't know if this is true. But our local mayo absolutly tastes quite different from Helman's and other import brands.
Originally posted by New
I don't know if this is true. But our local mayo absolutly tastes quite different from Helman's and other import brands.
Mayonnaise is actually pretty easy to make, but the home-made stuff doesn't have any sort of preservatives in it, and it doesn't last. Plus, as you noted, you need to find certified "salmonella free" eggs, which can be difficult to find and costly on this side of the pond. The kind made with raw-eggs is the best, but as far as stuff that can be found anywhere, I choose Helmans.
Mine is wafer thin honey roasted ham, with a speckle of cheese and onion on normal white bread
Originally posted by e1618978
Toasted brown wonder bread, crust removed, with a thick layer of expensive duck pate.
Pate reminds me of liverwurst.
Originally posted by ThinkingDifferent
Pate reminds me of liverwurst.
Its not as good - I bought some liverwurst at Harris Teeter yesterday, because I didn't have time to make it to whole foods.
I can eat a whole pack of duck pate, but after a couple crackers with liverwurst I got that "don't eat any more of this stuff" feeling that I usually get from cheap hot dogs.
Here is another contender - Montreal smoked meat on pumpernickel.
I want one now. . . drool.