![]() ![]() Butter on a French jamon buerre is the cheese. I’ve even make my own cheese at home, but quickly gave up when I realized it cost me about twice as much to make at home! And I count butter here as a cheese. You don’t absolutely need cheese and for those on a low sodium diet it’s not always an option but just a single slice of cheese on a vegetarian sandwich can just put it over the top. Think of cheese like the guy who is bringing the fat to the party. Heck, just plain tomatoes – picked at the peak of season, kissed with salt and pepper, and put on plain white bread with some mayo- makes a sandwich that is surprisingly meaty.Īnd of course, cheese. You can beef it up with some black beans and pickled jalepenos and have a vegan torta. Avocado, lettuce, and tomato with a squeeze of lemon juice is incredible. If you want to make tonkatsu but don’t want to eat pork, tofukatsu (made with tofu!) is amazing. I love roasted cauliflower with a tahini dressing, put some fresh veg and a nice pickle on top and you have a hell of a sandwich. You can literally just roast vegetables and put them in a sandwich. Pulled pork is a top 5 sandwich in my world but what’s wrong with making a cha-shu (Chinese pork belly) sandwich? I’ve done banh mi with sauteed and thin cut pork shoulder and it’s awesome.Īnd it also doesn’t have to be deli meat or their hideous cousin those vegan deli meats. These meats (ham, hot dog, pastrami, mortadella, salami, bologna, corned beef, almost anything that is bright pink) are carcinogenic and should be used sparingly but they are found in a ton of sandwiches around the world. ![]() And not only meat but usually a cured (with nitrates) kind of meat. For a lot of Westerners and Europeans the main filling of a sandwich is meat. There are several other keys to making a good sandwich from stuff you have just hanging out in your fridge. Humans cannot live on bread alone which is why after the bread comes the filling. Get the Fuck out! I’m not making a banana bread pastrami cottage cheese sandwich. Mitch Hedberg had a joke about pastrami sandwiches which exposed this idea: “What kind of bread? Rye. Many a good sandwich has gone bad because of the bread. So, the bread, to me, is the key to the whole sandwich. I don’t think it would have worked well on a rustic, chewy, pucker-sour San Francisco sourdough but it worked on that loaf. Good sushi rice is slightly sweet, slightly tangy, and so was my sandwich bread. So what’s wrong with the ingredients for California roll? And as long as the bread matches your sort of expected tastes, I think it’s a great idea! In that case of that wheat bread, it worked perfectly. And the Turks have a famous fried mackerel sandwich. hold on gross man.” you say “you cannot make California roll sandwich.” But why not? You’ll probably gladly think of fish sticks or tuna salad as fillings for a sandwich. When thinking of what kind of sandwich I want to make with it, I try to match it with the bread.įor example, how about California roll sandwich? “WHOA. Now that bread was slightly sour (from a long ferment and starter) and slightly sweet and full of nuttiness from the whole wheat. The other day I made a loaf of whole wheat bread which I spiked with a bit of honey. ![]() Bread provides that function for sure but it also forms the base of your flavors. The idea of a sandwich is something handheld and filled with stuff. It is a sandwich but there’s a lot going on here and I think we can all make better sandwiches with stuff we already have in our fridge/pantry if we are just a bit deliberate about it.įirst is the bread. Most of you glibly put a piece of ham, slice of cheese, and maybe some mustard and mayo between two pieces of garbage bread and call it a sandwich. Pineapple on pizza raises a point about sandwiches that I bet you haven’t really thought about. So, let’s not invalidate: if you like pineapple on pizza (I like it sometimes!) that’s not a crime if you hate pineapple on pizza that’s also not a crime, just don’t have any of mine! In fact, food is one of the few places in human life where opinion is just about the only thing that matters and where every opinion is valid. And I am serious when I say that I would love your opinions. So, let’s take a few minutes to talk a bit about sandwiches. And since my pandemic sandwich adventure I have wanted to gather my thoughts on what makes a good sandwich but I have, frankly, bee lazy. It’s been a while since I’ve written about sandwiches and judging from the comments some of you missed my food-related posts. A sandwich is a sandwich and a manwich is a meal: these are the two genders*.
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