Sammiches

[livius drusus]

Inspired by ceptimus' daily grind (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10022&postcount=12), I thought it was time for a thread dedicated the almighty sandwich.

I'll open with the classic Italian salami and cheese, but I'm going to be all elitist about it by insisting that it be what some folks in the Godforsaken land have taken to calling "a panini" (shudder), but what in any bar in Italy is known as a "toast" (pronounced "tossed") on account of it being toasted. No, really...

Multigrain bread, Genoa or Milan salami sliced see-through thin, provolone or very young pecorino toscano, roasted red peppers, olive oil spiced with garlic, oregano, salt and pepper brushed on the outer sides of the bread: put it in a sandwich maker, George Foreman grill, cast iron griddle/skillet, even a barbeque grill until both sides are toasty and stripey and the cheese is melted.

Damn. Now I want one for breakfast.

[Ex-zombie]

My favorite sandwich is one my grandmother made for me when I was a child. A banana and Miracle Whip concoction. Oh so good! My children refuse to try even so much as a bite.

[livius drusus]

Wow. A banana cream sandwich with bread as the nilla wafers. I fear to look, yet I cannot turn away.

[LadyShea]

I love muffaletta sandwiches, and was absolutely blown away when I had a real one in New Orleans. I found this description online which sounds authentic

1 round loaf Muffuletta Bread, 10-inch in diameter*
Olive Salad
Extra-virgin olive oil or juice from Olive Salad
2 ounces salami, thinly sliced
2 ounces Italian ham, thinly sliced
2 ounces Provolone cheese, thinly sliced

OLIVE SALAD:
2/3 cup pitted and coarsely chopped green olives
2/3 cup pitted and coarsely chopped kalamata olives
1/2 cup chopped pimiento
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 anchovy fillet, mashed
1 tablespoon capers, drained and rinsed
1/2 cup finely chopped fresh parsley leaves
1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh oregano leaves
1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil

In a medium bowl, combine all the ingredients and then allow the flavors to mingle for at least 1 hour prior to serving. Store, covered, in the refrigerator until ready to use.

Make Muffuletta Bread and make Olive Salad. Cut bread in half crosswise and scoop out about half of the soft dough from top and bottom pieces (this is to provide more room for the sandwich ingredients). Brush the inside bottom of loaf with olive oil or juice from the Olive Salad marinade. Layer salami, Italian ham and Provolone cheese on the bottom piece. Top with as much Olive Salad as will fit without spilling out. Add top of loaf and press down slightly. Slice in quarters and serve. Always serve the Muffuletta Sandwich at room temperature, never toasted.

[seebs]

I'm tolerant of sandwiches, but I love sammiches. It is a recurring theme in my suffering that Subway can't agree on what ingredients they carry from one city to another; I like swiss cheese, but only some stores have it.

I like pastrami best. I like to put a lot of peppery stuff on sandwiches, in general. A secret ingredient I'm fond of is this stuff called "Montreal Steak Seasoning" you can find at some grocery stores; I don't know what's in it, but it makes for good sammiches!

I like mustard, too. Plain yellow mustard.

[livius drusus]

Yes. Mustard is the king of sammich spread products. French's yellow is my personal favorite. I also generally hate mayonnaise and ketchup, although there are exceptions, such as cayenne mayo in a sliced roast turkey sandwich with crumbled gorgonzola on focaccia.

[LadyShea]

I like pastrami best.

Me too! So flavorful

A secret ingredient I'm fond of is this stuff called "Montreal Steak Seasoning" you can find at some grocery stores; I don't know what's in it, but it makes for good sammiches!

I use it on everything, all kinds of meat, salads, sammiches

[lisarea]

I prefer simmiches, personally.

This is my "too hot to cook" staple:

Comically Oversized Simmich

Take a fresh loaf of Italian bread, slice it lengthwise
Mayo on the bottom piece
Add a layer of thin-sliced deli bologna (not that fat-assed crap in the blister packs)
One layer of hard salami
Two layers of thin-sliced provolone
Chopped romaine lettuce drenched in vinaigrette (have this made first to give it time to get all mixed up)
Thin slices of Roma tomatoes, or really any tomato big enough to slice but that tastes like a tomato
Thin slices of relatively sweet onion
Sliced banana peppers, plus a sprinkling of the pickling juice
Lots of fresh-cracked pepper

Cut into individual pieces, then yell "COMICALLY OVERSIZED SIMMICH!" so people come around to eat it.

Tofu Simmiches

Cut firm tofu into thinnish slices, then sprinkle them with powdered spices, like cumin and cayenne and S&P and such. Also, you can use one of those pre-mixed salt substitute things, but I cannot remember the name of the kind. It's not Mrs. Dash, but something else. Saute some garlic in EVOO, then put in the tofu slices. After you turn them, add a thin layer of sharp cheddar, and cook until it's melted. Serve on a roll with a tiny bit of mayo, onion, lettuce, tomato, and pepper slices. Or with whatever you'd put on a cheeseburger.

Also: BBQ pork on potato rolls with homemade cole slaw. You can put the cole slaw in the simmiches, or just have it on the side.

I also used to make falafel simmiches and guacamole simmiches, but I haven't done that in a very long while, and I sort of forgot how I made them. But they were good.

[Beth]

Um, I am gross. Some mornings, I pile grits onto buttered toast, buttery side out, and fold it in half. It is my favorite 'sandwich'.

[Dingfod]

A slice of Spam and Miracle Whip on Wonder Bread. Sall-oot!

[Ensign Steve]

Um, pardon my ignorance, but what is with the recipes in the sammiches thread? All you Martha Stuart motherfuckers seem to have forgotten that the sammich is the staple of the lazy, not some medium for you to expand your creative culinary prowess. You all make me sick! The Earl of Sammich must be spinning around in his grave.

I'm still about sugar and margarine on white, but when I'm looking for something more mainstream, grilled cheese or turkey and swiss will do me just fine. But always on white. Good white-hearty white bread for white, white people.

[LadyShea]

ll the other sammiches I eat are boring. Tuna, turkey, occasionally egg salad

[Ymir's blood]

My favorite sandwich is one my grandmother made for me when I was a child. A banana and Miracle Whip concoction. Oh so good! My children refuse to try even so much as a bite.
My mother used to eat those as well. :yuck:

I like peanut butter sandwiches, cream cheese'n'olive sandwiches, tunafish salad sandwiches. For 'Subs' I usually get either chicken breast or steak with the occasional meatball.

[pescifish]

the occasional meatball.
I have an innate wariness about any of those occasional items. I mean, what if that meatball decides to morph into a small gila monster while you are just about to bite it? :eek: Occasional tables freak me out, too. It's just way to risky too put a glass or plate of snacks on one!

I don't eat sandwiches that often since my bread type of choice is tortillas. But when I go to Subway I have them build me a turkey (or tuna salad) with double bacon and a vegetable garden on top. Extra onions, extra pepperoccinis (I'll edit and correct that spelling once I can get to a jar in the kitchen), vinegar, tons of pepper. Lettuce, tomato, bell peppers, cabbage, shaved carrots, etc.

Sometimes in the morning, I assemble a breakfast sandwich: toast, egg, hamburger patty, but they are pretty plain and not worthy of the great cuisine of the culinary wizzes of this board.

[Gawen]

I can't think of a sammich I don't like. Peanutbutter and banana, Tomato and Mayo. A friend of mine's wife used to make the best turkey sandwiches i ever ate. Some lost and forgotten deli on some lost and forgotten L.A. boardwalk made the best deli sandwiches I ever ate. And there's nothin wrong with a chook sanger any day.

[Ymir's blood]

the occasional meatball.
I have an innate wariness about any of those occasional items. I mean, what if that meatball decides to morph into a small gila monster while you are just about to bite it?
Gila monster sandwich! :pointless:

[freemonkey]

Oooooh! I love sammiches!

My favorites include (but are not limited to) big fat roast beast on that crusty French bread you take 'n' bake yourself, with some havarti cheese, mayo, horseradish, pepper, lettuce, onion and pickle. Mmmmm, mmm!

Thinly sliced leftover cold homemade meatloaf on squishy bread. Cold turkey on heavy white bread the day after T'giving.

And I haven't done this in years, but back when I didn't need to watch my weight: fried baloney or minced ham on mayo-slathered white bread.

I love all kinds of mustards and spicy, peppery things.

I absolutely hate Miracle Whip and its ilk.

Most of those mentioned sammiches sound delicious, especially livius' and LadyShea's suggestions.
Except:
A slice of Spam and Miracle Whip on Wonder Bread. Sall-oot!
That, sir, is not a sammich. :fuming: :wink:

[Ymir's blood]

Cold turkey on heavy white bread the day after T'giving.
Oh, jeez. I forgot deli sliced turkey (or ham) sandwiches. :doh:

[livius drusus]

Um, pardon my ignorance, but what is with the recipes in the sammiches thread? All you Martha Stuart motherfuckers seem to have forgotten that the sammich is the staple of the lazy, not some medium for you to expand your creative culinary prowess. You all make me sick! The Earl of Sammich must be spinning around in his grave.

The Earl was a damn genius and would have nothing but love for those of us who have pursued his art. Besides, how do you think they got to be recipes? First comes the what have i got in this fridge phase, then the years of experimentation, and only after that comes the recipe.

I mean, really... :hmph:

I'm still about sugar and margarine on white,

What is with you slabs of butter and butter-like products people? It's just nasty.

but when I'm looking for something more mainstream, grilled cheese or turkey and swiss will do me just fine.

Grilled cheese; check. Turkey and swiss; check (although I have to include avocado, mung bean sprouts and country dijon).

But always on white. Good white-hearty white bread for white, white people.

Wanna hear something that will scare you? I was once just like you, young Skywalker. Just like you. Now it's all about the sprouted wheat and multigrain.

:iamdad:

[Ymir's blood]

I switched to whole wheat bread several years back. Love the stuff. Just don't stand between me and the bathroom first thing in the morning. :gottago:

[SharonDee]

A slice of Spam and Miracle Whip on Wonder Bread. Sall-oot!
That, sir, is not a sammich. :fuming: :wink:
I'll say! Spam definitely calls for real mayonnaise and whole wheat bread. :glare:

[Beth]

I like simple stuff. I also eat tomato and lettuce sandwiches on buttered toast, buttered side out. Occasionally, I make a tomato gravy with a smaller can of stewed tomatoes, roux, and milk, salt and pepper. You put this on buttered toast, the buttery side on the outside,...and eat as an open-faced sandwich. -OK, I know I have this obsessession. I do not eat tons, but when I do, I make the most of my flavor. I lurve the taste of butter on bread, be it toast or plain bread.

[Beth]

For desert sometimes I make a cookie sandwich of two Nilla wafers and a few slices of bananas. When I feel extra special, I add cinnamon and nutmeg, both freshly grated. Sometimes some grated semi-sweet chocolate.

[Ensign Steve]

Wanna hear something that will scare you? I was once just like you, young Skywalker. Just like you. Now it's all about the sprouted wheat and multigrain.

:iamdad:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Beth]

Wanna hear something that will scare you? I was once just like you, young Skywalker. Just like you. Now it's all about the sprouted wheat and multigrain.

:iamdad:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Haha! I'm sprouted grains too. :P

[Godless Wonder]

Wanna hear something that will scare you? I was once just like you, young Skywalker. Just like you. Now it's all about the sprouted wheat and multigrain. :D Ha ha. This is funny to me. When I was little, maybe 7 years old, my mom switched the family over to "brown bread" as we called it. We complained bitterly, my brother and I. Finally, after about six months of constant begging for white bread, my mom caved in and bought us a damned loaf of white bread. Horror of horrors! To our surprise, we hated it! What is the white mush!?!? What the hell??? Why did we used to like this crap??? We ate it, but were puzzled about why we had thought we wanted white bread. We didn't beg for white bread anymore after that.

[Adora]

Hmm...

My favourite is what I like to call an Adora Turkey Delux.

Turkey, whole berry cranberry sauce, swiss cheese, roma tomato, guacamole and a few shredded basil leaves in a herb foccaia or turkish bread, toasted until cheese melts and everything is heated through properly.

Delicious.

My second favourite is a Nuttella slab, which is two self-cut doorstops with about 2cm of Nuttella smothered between it. Heh heh heh.

Oh, and I have to mention the "Yes, We Had A Barbeque Sunday Lunch" which is 2 day old cold sausages with lots of tomato sauce. Usually by the time you're eating this, you're also out of white bread, so it's wholegrain as well.

[JoeP]

Nuttella! :pant:

[ceptimus]

When the fridge is especially empty or all its contents are more than a month past the 'use by' date, I've been known to resort to the bread sandwich. This consists of two pieces of buttered bread with a piece of bread, buttered on both sides, as a filler.

When I have more than one type of loaf available, I experiment by using a different bread type as the filler, but most often the sandwich is just three slices of slightly stale sliced white. If I feel this is too plain for my mood, I add salt and pepper to taste.

[livius drusus]

Wanna hear something that will scare you? I was once just like you, young Skywalker. Just like you. Now it's all about the sprouted wheat and multigrain. :D Ha ha. This is funny to me. When I was little, maybe 7 years old, my mom switched the family over to "brown bread" as we called it. We complained bitterly, my brother and I. Finally, after about six months of constant begging for white bread, my mom caved in and bought us a damned loaf of white bread. Horror of horrors! To our surprise, we hated it! What is the white mush!?!? What the hell??? Why did we used to like this crap??? We ate it, but were puzzled about why we had thought we wanted white bread. We didn't beg for white bread anymore after that.

It didn't happen to me until full adulthood, but I know just what you mean. I went around for years braying about the superiority of white flour products (something about how if it was good enough to civilize the Germanic tribes, it was good enough for me) until I began to excise simple sugars from my diet and suddenly found myself forced to deal with the "brown bread". One slice of Alvarado Street Bakery multigrain and there was no looking back.

In other news:
Nutella rules the world
one more butter sandwich from you people and I'm going to projectile vomit
:sammich:

[ceptimus]

You know how day-old pizza from the fridge is tastier than fresh? Try chopping up the pizza, using that as a sandwich filling, and warming the completed sandwich slightly in the microwave. :eat:

[livius drusus]

Daaamn... Now that's good sammich thinking. It's like an impromptu calzone.

[freemonkey]

I love all kinds of bread. Too much. Until recently I never paid much attention to the obscene amount of calories per serving. :sadcheer:

........buttered side out.....
Do you have to eat that with gloves on? Or with a knife & fork?


Nutella rules the world
Great. Now I have to go out and get some Nutella. I've heard of it, but have never had any.

[livius drusus]

Nutella rules the world
Great. Now I have to go out and get some Nutella. I've heard of it, but have never had any.

A Nutella virgin, eh? Well, I should warn you up front that it's one of the best things ever to cross a taste bud and needless to say, it ain't for the calorie-conscious.

The solution is just to spread it on a banana or strawberry instead of making a sammich out of it, that way you can tell yourself you're being healthy since you're eating fruit. Then again, a Nutella sammich with slices of banana in it would be fucking incredible.

Oh God... What have I done?!

[Dingfod]

I want some "chocolate toast". That's what my brother's daughters say when they want their dad to make toast spread with Nutella. I had my first taste of Nutella in their apartment in Venezuela. Mmmm. Good stuff. I thought it was German or something. I had never heard of it before that.

[Beth]

........buttered side out.....
Do you have to eat that with gloves on? Or with a knife & fork?


Hehe. No, I usually wrap it in a paper towel and eat like that if I am not at a table, sometimes, if I am alone, I just get my hands greasy, lick my fingers and wash them afterward(but I would never do that around anyone), but when I eat this around people, at a table, I use a fork.


Warren: I love Nutella on toast. I am addicted, therefore must refrain from it. A nutella toast binge was responsible for several gained pounds a few months back.

[Beth]

Then again, a Nutella sammich with slices of banana in it would be fucking incredible.
It is. It absolutely is. Nutella is the food of gods.

[freemonkey]

Nutella rules the world
Great. Now I have to go out and get some Nutella. I've heard of it, but have never had any.

A Nutella virgin, eh? Well, I should warn you up front that it's one of the best things ever to cross a taste bud and needless to say, it ain't for the calorie-conscious.

The solution is just to spread it on a banana or strawberry instead of making a sammich out of it, that way you can tell yourself you're being healthy since you're eating fruit. Then again, a Nutella sammich with slices of banana in it would be fucking incredible.

Oh God... What have I done?!

I'll get some today, try it and then have the husband take the rest of it to work and then I'll "forget" I ever heard the word "Nutella" . In Goooogling it, I found that its made with hazelnuts, which are not my favorite, so maybe I won't like it so much. Except for the chocolate part.

[livius drusus]

I'll get some today, try it and then have the husband take the rest of it to work and then I'll "forget" I ever heard the word "Nutella".

Uh huh. It could happen, sure. A more likely possibility is that you'll be standing over the counter with the jar in one hand and a soup spoon in the other, shovelling the entire contents uncontrollably into your gaping maw.

In Goooogling it, I found that its made with hazelnuts, which are not my favorite, so maybe I won't like it so much. Except for the chocolate part.

I can't let you fool yourself like this, freemonkey. Hazelnuts by themselves are meaningless. Chocolate and hazlenut together (see Baci Perugina or Gianduiotti for other froth at the mouth deliciousness from that pairing) is to regular chocolate like heroin is to aspirin.

[freemonkey]

Okay. Don't hate me. I got some Nutella. I tried it on bread. I tried it with bananas on bread. I tried it on a butter knife. Maybe I'm in denial, but I can take it or leave it. :shrug:

[livius drusus]

:faint:

[SharonDee]

Hubster bought me some Nutella today on his grocery run. I've tried it... and it's great! It's like having a sandwich cookie without the wafers. Yum!
:pleased:

[Dingfod]

Okay. Don't hate me. I got some Nutella. I tried it on bread. I tried it with bananas on bread. I tried it on a butter knife. Maybe I'm in denial, but I can take it or leave it. :shrug:
I'm shocked! Maybe you ought to try Jif Chocolate Silk (http://www.jif.com/products/details.asp?prodID=334) instead. It's sweet chocolate peanut butter and I'd have to say, damn near as good as Nutella, but less expensive.

I can't buy either one because I cannot control myself with them.

[dave_a]

Inspired by ceptimus' daily grind (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=10022&postcount=12), I thought it was time for a thread dedicated the almighty sandwich.

I'll open with the classic Italian salami and cheese, but I'm going to be all elitist about it by insisting that it be what some folks in the Godforsaken land have taken to calling "a panini" (shudder), but what in any bar in Italy is known as a "toast" (pronounced "tossed") on account of it being toasted. No, really...

Multigrain bread, Genoa or Milan salami sliced see-through thin, provolone or very young pecorino toscano, roasted red peppers, olive oil spiced with garlic, oregano, salt and pepper brushed on the outer sides of the bread: put it in a sandwich maker, George Foreman grill, cast iron griddle/skillet, even a barbeque grill until both sides are toasty and stripey and the cheese is melted.

Damn. Now I want one for breakfast.


Well I was going to one up you, but you nailed my sammich. Bitch.

A sammich that starts with provelone, salami, oil and is toasted simply can't be beat no matter what else it is contaminated with. Now add a garden fresh, never saw the inside of a refrigerator sudduth strain brandywine tomato and it's culinary orgasm time baby.

Until you have had one of my brandywines you haven't tasted a tomato.

I am taking orders for next season ;-)

[JoeP]

Okay. Don't hate me. I got some Nutella. I tried it on bread. I tried it with bananas on bread. I tried it on a butter knife. Maybe I'm in denial, but I can take it or leave it. :shrug:
:faint: again
Maybe you got a defective jar.

[livius drusus]

Well I was going to one up you, but you nailed my sammich. Bitch.

Hey man, hate the game not the player. :nail:

A sammich that starts with provelone, salami, oil and is toasted simply can't be beat no matter what else it is contaminated with. Now add a garden fresh, never saw the inside of a refrigerator sudduth strain brandywine tomato and it's culinary orgasm time baby.

Wait, wait, wait... Do you add this tomato before the toasting process? Because I don't actually like tomatoes warmed up in any way unless it's for sauce.

Until you have had one of my brandywines you haven't tasted a tomato.

I am taking orders for next season ;-)

I don't doubt that for a second. Do you ship? Like by the crate?

[wei yau]

A sammich is how I introduced myself to the guy who would eventually become my college roommate. We remain friends to this day, which is a testament to the power of the sammich:

(DISCLOSURE: This is about as "white trash" of a sammich as you can make. I've not made it in years, as I'm sure the name of the sammich would become a self-fulfilling prophecy)

Heart-Attack Special

Fry up two slices of Spam...in butter

Fry up an egg or two...in butter

Fry up one slice of buttered bread...in butter

Place fried Spam and egg on bread.

Top with Kraft American single.

Top with slice of buttered bread

Grill both sides of sammich ... in butter

Eat greasy mess while cheese is still oozy.

Schedule appointment with cardiologist.

[livius drusus]

Oh. My. God. And I thought Elvis' taste in sammiches was grotesque. Deep fried PB&B is downright rarified in comparison.

[wei yau]

Oh. My. God. And I thought Elvis' taste in sammiches was grotesque. Deep fried PB&B is downright rarified in comparison.

Now that I've gotten older, I've also grown wiser and have not had this sammich in years. Although, truthfully, it has less to do with wisdom and more to do with clogged arteries, I'm guessing.

(BTW: For true sammichy goodness, be sure to use only Wonder bread)

The sandiwches described by both livius and LadyShea are friggin' wonderful. Exactly the type of sandwich I love having these days...well, not these days thanks to the friggin' South Beach diet....bloody diet...and, no, lettuce wraps are not adequate sammich fixins.

[livius drusus]

You know, I think I'm going to get that roast turkey, crumbled blue cheese on soft ciabatta with cayenne mayo sammich for lunch. I don't mean to tease, South Beach man, but damn that shit is good.

[AspenMama]

Reading this thread has made me alternately queasy and hungry...

My favorite comfort sandwichs:

**Peanutbutter and honey on a multigrain or nutty bread. (Anyone remember the Jimmy Carter? Peanutbutter with 4 large marshmellows-- he was known for rather prominent white teeth).

**Melted brie on crusty French bread.

**Open face, fresh basil on top of barely vine-ripened sliced tomatoes, on top of fresh made and sliced mozzarella, again on French bread, perhaps a smidgen of olive oil on the bread

**Plain old veggie sandwich with a variety of fresh veggies, a squirt of red wine vinnegar and dots of red pepper infused virgin olive oil

[livius drusus]

Oh yes, the Caprese sammich is so delicious. It works really well on focaccia too.

[RevDahlia]

I maintain that the best sammich ever devised is the plain old BLT. It's perfect, and the weirder the bread, the more delicious it is. The second-best sammich ever devised is the double-decker turkey-and-bacon club. I like mine with avocadoes on the deck with the turkey, and Ranch dressing on the deck with the bacon.

My other favorite sammich is a bar of Valhrona chocolate, frozen (the frozen part is important) wedged into a crusty sourdough roll. The roll must be very authentically sour. My Lawd, that is some tasty shit.