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    For me, there is nothing finer than Brie, Ham, Grape and Garlic Mayo.

    Freshly-baked bread cut thicker than normal. The finest Brie, so ripe that it oozes everywhere. Ham cut straight from the bone before your eyes at the Deli. Grapes so juicy and sweet, almost to the point of bursting. Garlic mayo hand-made by Tuscan maidens to grandmother’s special recipe.

    I’m dribbling just thinking about it.

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    • #613973

      Salami (NOT Danish!) and Boursin cheese (instead of butter)
      Best with crusty french bread yum

      Washed down with a pint of Hop Back Summer Lightning…

      • #614000

        Summer Lightning – mmmmmmmm!

        Just had the Faversham Hop Festival down my way last weekend. First taste of this year’s Late Red from Shepherd Neame. I wasn’t too sure if it was better than the previous season and just had to spend most of the afternoon drinking it…!

        • #614005

          Ah – a proper beer fan!!
          Two sessions at the Olympia Great British Beer Festival are but a dimming memory…
          I must search out that Shepherd Neame brew and give it a try. It is a new one on me.

          This might interest you. Benefits of moderate beer consumption

          To keep this partly on thread – ‘Real Meat’ bacon sandwiches (and sausage sandwiches) take a deal of beating.

          cheers

          • #622121

            This might interest you. Benefits of moderate beer consumption Didn

    • #614159

      My favorite sandwich:

      1 whole breast of chicken, seasoned with garlic, a pinch of paprika, salt, pepper, and a dash of balsamic vinegar & soy sauce, deep fried in olive oil, thinly sliced, and served over potato bread, lightly toasted, topped with miracle whip, sliced avacados, pepperoncinis, ruffles potato chips, and dijon mustard.

      Sometimes, though, the standard Egg Salad works wonders.

      • #614265

        Now THAT is an American sandwich! chef

      • #614396

        12″ Meatball sub, with lettuce, tomato, cucumber, freshly ground black pepper, cheddar cheese, and oregano. MMMMM…. I think I’ll be stopping for one today at lunch!

        • #614447

          My favorite sandwich:

          Pita bread
          Slices of ripe tomato, lightly salted – home grown only!
          Slices of avocado
          Bean sprouts
          Mayonnaise

          I dream about them until the tomatoes leave in mid-September and start coming back in late July!

          Lee Morgan

          • #614467

            I’m going to have to say Peanut Butter and Jelly….(or Jam, depending on where you’re from)

            If I were in Europe, however, I would make it Nutella and Jelly/Jam…

            To give it a sweet twist add some honey. And if you’re really in the mood for something sweet, add a few marshmallows!

            • #614664

              Ever try cream cheese and jelly? It sound gross but yum it’s SOOOOO good!
              (Philly cream cheese and grape jelly)
              have fun

            • #614676

              Cheddar cheese and strawberry jam is pretty good too (that’s strawberry jelly for those of you in the trans-atlantic colonies).

              StuartR

    • #614393

      Two marshmllows with a chocolate chip between.

    • #614476

      A good, hot pressed Cuban. yum

      • #614479

        I’m pretty sure that a Cuban can’t be a cigar, or a person from Cuba, but beyond that I haven’t a clue!

        StuartR

        • #614482

          A “cuba” in Mexico is Bacardi & Coke- perhaps that’s it?

        • #614487

          > Cuban sandwich
          Ham, pork, cheese and aluminum foil. Guaranteed to cause heart disease and/or dementia. See The Global Gourmet

        • #614744

          Cuban sandwich shops make these sandwiches using a sandwich iron. This technique, adapted from the Joy of Cooking, allows home cooks to create the same effect in an oven, using two cast iron skillets. If you have an electric grill with two flat, heavy hinged cooking surfaces, you can use that as well.

          1 loaf Cuban bread or French bread (about 10 to 12 inches long)
          Butter, softened
          Whole-grain mustard
          4 ounces thinly sliced ham
          4 ounces thinly sliced roast pork
          4 ounces thinly sliced Swiss cheese
          Sliced dill pickles

          Heat oven to 400 degrees F. Slice the bread lengthwise. Generously butter one side, and spread mustard to taste on the other. Over the buttered half, layer on the meats, cheese and pickles. Top with the mustard-coated bread. Slice the loaf in half to make 2 sandwiches. Wrap each sandwich tightly in aluminum foil. Place sandwiches in a large cast-iron skillet and weight them down with another cast-iron skillet, or other heavy, oven-proof pan. Bake until the cheese melts, about 20 minutes. Unwrap and serve (careful: they’re hot!).

    • #614522

      Nobody going to jump in with Vegimite?

      • #614550

        My wife claims to be an Australian (she was naturalised just a afew months ago). But she doesn’t like Vegemite- I claim the naturalisation process is somewhat deficient.

      • #614572

        Oh imitation Marmite

        • #614670

          Exactly.

          Well, I was going to mention Marmite toast soldiers as the ultimate end to a day, but would they qualify as a “sandwich”?

      • #614574

        I find Vegemite easier to cook with, especially in meat loaf or a bolognese variant.

        Just remembered another recipe…

        • #614595

          Is Vegemite becoming common/available/well known in the UK now? It was as rare as a bull’s udder when I was there.

          • #614611

            Yes, you’ll find it when you’re not looking for it, but won’t when you are. Only the smaller jars though – nothing like the industrial-sized jars I saw when I was last over.

            Does it really keep forever? I’ve never known a pot to grow mould or separate or anything.

            • #614815

              I don’t know if it keeps forever, but I suspect it does.

              Our big jar had 2 years to expiry date. That expiry date was March last year. We’re just finishing the jar.

              The reason the stuff does not go off ( I suspect) is that the only organism in the universe which would ingest the stuff is an Australian human being. No mould, microbe, virus, or vermin (apart from the aforementioned) would go near it- or could go near it, and survi.ve

            • #614931

              This will sound rather bland to most people, but I enjoy part-skim ricotta cheese, fat-free 1000 island dressing and cabbage on whole grain bread. I am type 1 diabetic and try to avoid fat and other stuff that will raise my blood sugar.

              Chokecherry jelly on whole-grain bread is another good one. Right now, though I am out of chokecherry jelly and we had a late frost here in north central Nevada, so along with the drought conditions I won’t be picking any chokecherries again this year.

            • #615159

              [indent]


              …the only organism in the universe which would ingest the stuff is an Australian human being…


              [/indent] rofl

              I’m trying hard to block out all thoughts of ‘Roo Poo…!

            • #615175

              Hehehehe

              ***DINGDING***

              Roopoo has been mentioned!!!

      • #614585

        Having watched Rick Steins’s Food Heros last night reminded me of…..
        Cheese and Marmite!!!
        (Good strong cheddar + a by-product of beer – what could be finer!)

      • #614721

        Almost, but not quite.
        On a summer’s day, fresh crusty French bread, spread with Marmite, (or Vegemite) top with crisp iceberg lettuce leaves, serve up a lager – then enjoy the pleasure of simple tastes that just go together like Abbott and Costello, Peaches and Cream etc etc
        cheers NewZealand

    • #614963

      Do burritos count as sandwiches, or are we sticking to the kind of sandwich that has an incomplete wrapper?

    • #615374

      From Philadelphia – A Cheese Steak Hoagie, start out with Italian bread cut lengh wise but not completely.
      Then depending on what part of town you were raised on coat bread with mayo or oil and vinegar. Special place in hell if you want both ;-} Green peppers optional.
      Then add mass quantities of lettuce, thin sliced beef, grilled onions, cheese, tomatoes, mushrooms and maybe a cherry pepper. Wash it down with Frank’s Pale Dry Ginger Ale. Haven’t had one in 22 years.

    • #615843

      I’ll offer my favourites. The first is cream cheese and crispy bacon, ideally on a toasted bagel but good fresh toasted bread is a very close second. The second is good old bacon an egg, with the bacon fried rather than grilled, (not as good for you, I know, but if it gets too crispy it doesn’t complement the egg as well, IMHO), and a fresh egg, fried sunny side up, or briefly turned if you must, (I know there’s one of the eight hundred thousand decriptions of how eggs can be cooked in the US that perfectly describes this, but I’m at a loss). This MUST be accompanied by lashings of HP Sauce.

      Finally, I wholeheartedly agree with peanut butter and jam camp, but for me the jam has to be ginger preserve, preferably with little bits of crystalised ginger in it.

      Scrumbly and delish…

    • #617846

      It would have to be hot pastrami and swiss with Guldens golden brown mustard on a really dark rye with a tall glass of dark beer and a small bag of crisps. Alaska

    • #619203

      Mine I would have to say is a warm reuben. get the meat and the bread and then fry it in the pan and dip it in thousand island dressing. AWESOME!!!

      • #619426

        What’s a reuben?

        • #619466

          Rye bread, sliced corned beef, cheese, mayo, mustard and you put the sandwhich together and heat it up in a pan and then dip it in thousand island dressing.

          • #619480

            The quintessentially-English egg & cress sandwich pales by comparison.

          • #619652

            Perhaps it’s a regional difference.

            The Reuben I know and love is grilled: Rye bread (the darker the better), Corned Beef, Swiss Cheese & Saurkraut. Spread either Thousand Island Dressing and/or mustard on the inside of the bread and the outside lightly with butter. Grill until toasted and the Swiss cheese has melted.

            Of course the extra Thousand Island to dip the sandwich in remains a constant.

    • #621695

      A sandwich additive which I’ve recently come to love is adjvar. Which is a roasted redpepper/eggplant and garlic spread. Guanteed to lift a boring sandwich out of the ordinary.
      Now, if I could only find a supplier in Medicine Hat…

      • #623684

        Catharine,

        Where do you get adjvar? That sounds really good. I would toast sourdough bread or a bagel and spread that on with a twist of cracked pepper.

        • #624464

          Found a recipe link http://www.recipesource.com/ethnic/europe/…00/rec0001.html%5B/url%5D otherwise I’d look for a deli that carries eastern european food.
          Note: contents of jar will be bright red – so it’s easy to spot!

          Cheers

          • #624888

            Here in Auckland we have a snadwich bar chain called Sandeli.

            They do a bacon, grape and Stilton cheese on mixed grain bread.

            If you get the chance try it. yep

            • #624902

              Too many yummy things…and I haven’t had my lunch yet! yum (it’s already 4PM!!) I’m going to have to lock this one up in the cupboard… If you’d like, you can start a new thread.
              have fun
              KT

      • #623686

        Though I’ve only had two, and not in the Miami where the best ones are found, I really like Cuban sandwiches, basically a hoagie with ham and/or pork with cheese on French bread. This assembly is then pressed hot. The result is yummy.

    • #622302

      Yum. im hungry now from reading all these it’s kind of plain, but the best sammich I’ve had in a long time I got at the Fort Street Market (On Fort Street no less) which is sandwiched (pun intended) between the Legislature and courthouse buildings in Georgetown, Grand Cayman. it’s WELL within walking distance from the cruise ship terminals, so if you come down here, stop in.

      they bake their bread fresh (sometimes you have to wait for them to finish baking it when they’re busy) if youorder the chicken breast, they pull a whole boneless breast out of the rotisserie, cut off the skin and slice it by hand and put it on the bun/roll/whatever-you-want-to-call-it with lettuce tomato, onion, a smidge of mayo and a little spicy brown mustard, its yum yum for my tum. I’ll deal with traffic and parking downtown just to go get one of those bad boys (yes I said traffic and parking when talking about an island about the size of.. well cookie crumbs on a map of the Carib

      Their other sammiches are good, too, but not of the same calibre of the sandwiches discussed here

      Mark

      PS mods, can we add Cayman Islands to the countries list?

      Mark

      • #622526

        Hi Mark,

        Ok, I’ve added Cayman Islands to the list of countries and your 3 main islands Cayman Brac, Grand Cayman and Little Cayman to the list of states and Leif made this flag for you which you can use in your sig by adding this code [image]http://www.wopr.com/w3timages/ciflag.gif[/image] smile.

        • #622532

          Woo! y’all rock! smile

          although if anyone of the 27 residents of Little Cayman signs up here, I’ll be surprised as I know 24 of them and they’re not the most tech-savvy over there smile

          Mark

    • #622358

      If you ever find yourself in Montreal (Quebec, Canada) the smoked meat sandwiches on rye (with a bit of hot mustard) are not to be missed. Sure there is pastrami or corned beef all over but they do it best . It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been there but I make a point of stopping for one whenever I’m near there.

      Stats

      • #624340

        For anyone who has ever been in the New York City area, you have to go to the Stage Deli, near Times Square. Get the thinly sliced roast beef(at least a half pound) on fresh Rye Bread made within the hour, with a generous layer of cole slaw, sprinkle of fresh ground pepper. This makes a sandwich of almost four to five inches thick. Nothing like it !!!!!!!!!!!! munch Almost makes me want to fly back down to NYC just for that. (Almost)
        Bob

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