Growing up, one of my favorite sandwhiches was the following:
German black or sourdough bread
Unsalted butter (not margarine) spread on inside of bread
Sliced riped garden 'maters.
Chopped chives.
It was very refreshing.
Gott im Himmel! Best ham sammich I ever did eat was in Dublin, they do something with the ham, or maybe it’s the butter. Could be the bread, I suppose. We don’t put butter on sandwiches around here and I don’t like mayo so I’ve been eating dry tasteless ham on chemical-tasting Wonderbread for many years. That sandwich was like watching the sun rise after a lifetime of darkness…
My own contribution - toasted sesame seed bagel spread with hummus and a couple slices of deli sliced ham. I hope to disrupt the time-space continuum thus.
The Kosher Deli down the street makes the PLT.
Replace the bacon with pastrami.
A nice hot ham 'n cheese made on my Buster Douglas Grill is fantastic.
I’m also partial to the peanut butter and bacon (PB&B.) Thick-sliced bacon, fried crispy and then placed on a peanut butter sandwich while warm, so the heat and residual bacon grease make it a gooey, delicious mess.
I have a sandwich that I’m fairly sure I’ve called out during love making before (it’s a very good sandwich)
Peanut butter and (strawberry) jelly with salami and cheddar cheese and a slice of fried bologna with an over easy egg in the center.
The name pretty much sums it up but for those who need directions to make this piece of heaven here you go:
Take 2 pieces of white bread and top one with extra crunch peanut butter and the other with strawberry jelly. On top of the jelly add 2 or 3 slices of thick sliced salami and a few slices of good cheddar cheese. Fry a slice of bologna in a skillet with tons of butter until the edges are crispy and brown. Lightly fry one large egg, I prefer to cook up a few slices of bacon (not for the sandwich of course, but it’s good to have bacon around.) and cook the egg in the bacon fat. Put the egg in the dome the bologna makes and place on top of the cheddar cheese. I find it’s easier to add everything to the jelly side then flip over the peanut butter; you lose less goodness that way. Close sandwich and enjoy.
You can use whole wheat bread for a more healthy option if you prefer.
I just figured out the proper way to arrange the tomato in a sandwich that’s on regular square-ish sandwich bread. (Always stoneground whole wheat.) You’re going to cut the sandwich in two. You take four slices of tomato and place them so that two slices overlap at the center of each half of the sandwich. That way you can hold it all together with two toothpicks you insert before cutting the sandwich. The same principle holds for the lettuce and anything else, everything goes through the centerline.
I tend to agree that the BLT may be the perfect smamich. If done correctly. That or the PB&J (not that you could convince me English SO of that, he, and his ilk seem to consider the combination of peanut butter and jam to be an abomination…and yet they’re ok with marmite!)
But if I had to go for something more complicated…turkey(not the kind you get in little plastic packages, the real kind you get from leftovers) apples (yes apples) and mustard. The perfect combimation of sweet, savory and spicy. On whole wheat. Trust me.
Sounds very healthy if you substitute something else for the mayo. Margarine, maybe? Olive oil? Mustard?
Here’s a conundrum: It is said the Earl of Sandwich invented the sandwich so he could eat while playing cards, without using utensils and without getting his hands dirty. Now, when I make or order a sandwich, I always want it with dill pickle chips and tomato slices, and those tend to be rather . . . juicy ingredients. I always have to wrap one end of the sandwich in a napkin to keep my hands clean. Is there another way?
And is there a way to eat a hamburger without either wrapping one end in a napkin or getting grease all over your eating hand?
In the traditional English cucumber sandwich, the bread is buttered to keep the cucumber slices from making the bread soggy.
Dude, that is such a good idea! If I used honey mustard it would taste so much better, too. I’ve never been a big fan of mayonnaise and I only used it 'cause it’s all I thought of.
Thanks for that. I’m going to try it next time instead. And I won’t feel as guilty eating it now. Yay.
My favorite sandwich is a variation on the classic BLT. Take good thick white bread toast, spread with mayo put some lettuce and ripe tomato on one slice. Salt and pepper the tomato, then layer about four strips of thick sliced hickory smoked and peppered bacon on the tomato. Then you put a scoop of homemade egg salad on the bacon add pickles and the final slice of bread. In short it’s like this…
Bread
Mayo
Lettuce
Tomato
salt pepper
Bacon (4)
scoop of egg salad
dill pickle
mayo
bread
Yum.
Well, since I included the link to the 2001 sandwich thread in my earlier post, I think I’ll toss out that bookmark and replace it with this one, some really tasty suggestions here!
Today I had a turkey, bacon, swiss on my own homemade white bread with a little mayo. Perfect.
StG
Roast beef, American cheese (the Deli kind, NOT that pre-wrapped plastic crap), on an onion bun with mustard.
Another favorite sandwich for me is:
Dark rye bread
Roast beef
Horseradish cheddar cheese
Bread and butter Vlasic stacker
Unsalted butter spread on bread.
It’s very tasty. On occasion, I will add lettuce and tomato to the sandwich.
I’m very surprised that Rue has not popped in with his famous grilled PB, honey, and banana sannich. It is awesome!
Baker, you might want to save any recipes from that old thread on a hard drive or something. They seem to be archiving old threads, and that also seems to mean no access currently.
[Sleepy Billy-Bob] Christ, kid, wha’s with you ‘n’ all the fuckin’ sandwiches…? [/SBB]
Right now, my sandwich of choice:
Hard fried egg, maple sausage, cheese (your pick), real tomato on some sort of dense bread.
It works really nicely on a rosemary ciabatta I discovered today. Mustard is permitted.
Marmite?? people eat that crap??
As for PB&J you’re right it’s yucky…the jelly/jam bit anyway.
Peanut butter on white bread with a sprinkle of salt is the only way.