Day-to-day sandwiches:
Roast beef, horseradish (no mayo) and red onions on sourdough. Or smoked salmon and red onions on dark rye.
Special occasions:
Real cheesesteaks (which almost no place makes here in DC-they use provolone and make it into a hoagie)
Sometimes, after Christmas dinners there’s prime rib left over. I either make cheesesteaks with that or slice it into ribbons and put it on an onion roll with horseradish.
When I lived in Belgium, they had a sandwich called the “club americain”. Keep in mind that “Americain” anything in Belgium means seasoned steak tartare. This had raw beef mixed with spices, onions and eggs as the base (usually on a baguette). Layer with hardboiled eggs, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrot shavings and little crispy bits of fried chicken skin. Sounds weird but it’s excellent.
They person who invented the sandwich was a genius! I eat sandwiches almost every day. If I had to pick a favorite…
Hot: There’s a restaurant in a town a few miles away called Big T’s Food and Spirits, or something. It’s a steakhouse so naturally the food is great. They have a Prime Rib sandwich that is the greatest thing I have ever had. <drools> Prime rib, cooked to order, with onions and au jus sauce … <drools some more>
Cold sandwich? Gotta go with the PB&J. (but only strawberry jelly.) It’s a classic and you can never go wrong.
-Syko
“My cat’s breath smells like cat food.” - Ralph Wiggum
Not sure if it’s officially a sandwich, but the greatest bread containing another product type thingy has got to be a local takeaway’s:
** CHIPS IN NAAN BREAD !!! **
Mmmm mmm mmm, lovely. Best stodge food I’ve ever eaten. Soemtimes with a good ketchup, sometimes with mayonaise, sometimes with both, other times with plain ol’ salt and vinegar.
High in carbohydrate, but extraordinarily filling.
I’ve never since found anywhere that sells it since.
I just melted the last of the fresh mozzarella on half a seeded roll, spread the other half with a little mayo, salted and peppered it, covered it with thily sliced artichoke heart and a couple slices of Hebrew National beef salami, then slapped the two halves together and ate it.
For a “let’s get this damn refrigerator cleaned out” sandwich, it was pretty good.
I don’t like hot sandwiches, but my favorite cold sandwich is provolone, lettuce, tomato, oil and vinegar on a hard roll. I haven’t had that in a long time, but now I want one right now.
Hot sandwich: the New Orleans oyster loaf. Take a 12" French-type loaf of break, cut it in half, remove some of the inside, slather with mayonnaise, dash with Tabasco, and fill with batter-fried oysters. Pure culinary ecstacy.
Cold sandwich: Hmm…that’s tougher. Well, I’ve always been partial to a good curry chicken salad sandwich…but it has to have green grapes in it, too.
Oh, and jarbabyj: Naan is the leavened type of Indian break (with yeast), as opposed to the unleavened (chapatis, pooris, parathas, etc.). It’s way yummy.
Cold sandwich: Probably a tossup between an Italian Combo Wedge [sub]we call subs “wedges” around here, no, I don’t know why[/sub] with everything and Big Sam’s turkey on white.
Please note that “hot” coppa denotes spice, not heat.
Choice of roll
Hot coppa shaved thin
Swiss cheese
Mayonnaise
Lettuce
Tomato
Onions
Pickle
One slice Proscuitto di Parma
Basalmic vinegar, about one teaspoon on the meat