I love the atmosphere at the Blue Bayou, but, yeah. Do they still sell beignets? I haven’t been in ages, and I remember them being good and cheap – an unusual combination at D-land.
The place I always got my Monte Cristo fix was Pea Soup Andersen’s, of all places. Deep-fried with raspberry jam on the side, as The Powers What Is intended.
They’re gone now, right? At least, I heard the one in Buellton is no more.
Buellton wo Andersen’s? Next you’ll tell me Solvang has been swallowed by a fault line during an earthquake. Gaah!! Is nothing sacred & eternal??!?
IMO sweet has no place in a proper Monte Cristo. All else is heresy.
Buellton is no more. Sorta. They’ve indicated that the closure is “Temporary.” This was not expanded upon.
Jam is an Essential Part of the Experience.
I favor mozzarella, especially with the blended butter I can find around here that includes garlic, Parmesan, and basil.
Still not “gourmet”, IMO, but I like it. DH has been known to add pepperoni to this, which works well too.
I’m making my wife a grilled tuna-and-egg-and-Swiss sandwich for dinner. I’m going to have a hot dog sandwich, probably with American cheese, mayonnaise, and Sriracha. (I don’t feel like opening a new jar of jalapeños.)
To me they sound like real bagels. Which are eaten open faced only, with lox and cream cheese, although smoked albacore also works.
Soft bagels are the devil’s work.
It was weird to me that the list singled out olive loaf but not head cheese.
It’s still common enough that they sell them at 7-Eleven, along with tuna salad and chicken salad sandwiches.
ETA: your version sounds delicious.
I know what head cheese and I know you can put it between bread and call it a sandwich, but is “head cheese sandwich” a distinct thing?
Of course it’s often jellied so not exactly the same, but people who balk at head cheese are perfectly fine with guanciale.
I had the same question about olive loaf, and then I realized that at least a couple of times a week I have a ham and cheese sandwich, so I figured it was OK.
How did they get associated with that particular holiday?
That sounds like FUN.
Canned ham, like canned tuna?!?
I like all of those things individually, but it would never have occurred to me to put all 3 together …
Essentially, yes. It’s not mushy like deviled ham, but you still have to dig it out of the tin (like tuna).
Much like the Monte Cristo is basically an Americanized croque-monsieur, so too does Portugal have its own version of the sandwich.
Theirs has 3-4 kinds of meat in it, which can include mortadella, linguica, ham, breakfast sausages, or a whole steak, and the sandwich is then topped with a fried egg, draped in cheese, and smothered in a hot tomato-beer gravy.
It looks tempting, but that’s just WAY too much cheese for me.
Yep, it’s an old Depression/WW2 rationing recipe. You take a big chunk of bologna from the deli counter, shred it up with sweet pickle relish, boiled eggs, and mayo. I used to eat gallons of it every summer as a kid.
To be clear, it was tuna-and-egg with Swiss cheese; lest anyone think the cheese was mixed in somehow. Anyway, a big can of solid, white albacore, flaked up; mayonnaise, and tarragon. Mix it all together. Chop two hard-boiled eggs and mix them in.
- Liverwurst Or Braunschweiger
Ahem, I beg to differ. Don’t tell my doctor but I eat these all the time.