BS: Best sandwich?

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Ron Olesko
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 01:34 PM

You are so right Mario! mmmmmm..... garlic!!

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Bill D
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 01:37 PM

anger? naawwww...'sensitivity'!!! *grin*..."de gustibus non disputandem est" thank the powers that may or may not be for Garlic & Onion salt and powder!

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Ron Olesko
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 01:54 PM

When I was a kid, I HATED onions with a passion. I would freak if I found them in any of my mother's recipes.

One day, I tried French Onion soup and I fell in love with the little devils.

I'm thinking of another great sandwich now - saugage & peppers. Nice hot Italian sausage smothered in fried onions and peppers on a firm (but still soft) Italian roll.

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: catspaw49
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 01:58 PM

HEY SRS.......Those things are only for special occasions!!!! A diet of them would kill ya'!!! BTW, my last cholesterol check was 136 with correspondingly good LDL,HDL, and triglycerides. But once in awhile it's just WORTH IT!!!!!(:<))

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 02:20 PM

I'm glad you clarified that, Spaw!

Rick, avert your eyes at the discussion of broccoli and other fresh veggies--we'll try to be sensitive to your tender insides. My mother loved broccoli but couldn't eat it (or many other cruciferous veggies like cabbage and cauliflower) after chemo.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Emma B
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 04:32 PM

PAN BAGNAT - literally soaked bread
A whole Salad Nicoise on a large round piece of French country bread;
but only truly works if eaten in it's native Provence on a hot summers day under a vine trellis with a good local wine and somehow loses something in a wet and cold British October

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 10:55 PM

Bill D
I have some friends who are allergic to various foods, including tomatoes, and chillis.

Well since we don't want to turn this into a music thread, I'll just post a link or two...

DT: GARLIC SONG
Lyr Req: The Juice of the Garlic
As Sung by Deborah Wright in the Movie
"Garlic is as good as 10 mothers".

Now what we need is a good song about onions to go with this thread.

Out here in Matilda Land, we had for a few years a complete dearth of French Onion Soup, Powdered and otherwise. Wondered if the only factory in Lower Slobodovia had burnt down... but now it's back.

Powdered FOS, mixed with soft cream cheese, makes a great party dip - you can add other ingredients, including dried fruit (keep in fridge for a few hours) and even various types of alcohol!

Robin

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Amergin
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 11:27 PM

jesus....they should stop calling these dagwoods...and start calling them pattersons.....boy, sppaw...they look good...

I was the one with the blt above...

I love frying good bacon...get the lettuce and the tomatos together...and sautee the mushrooms in the grease...and then fry the bread in the grease as well...but don't forget the avacados...

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 06 Oct 03 - 11:34 PM

BLTs where I grew up were made with homemade bread, toasted, smeared liberally with mayonaise (about the only time I eat much mayo, except in tuna or potato salad), good fresh lettuce and homegrown tomatoes so ripe from the garden that the acid in them will just about disolve the enamel off of your teeth. Put the sandwich together with bacon fried crisp--mmmmmm, a summer sandwich to die for!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: GUEST,JOHN OF ELSIE`S BAND
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 06:05 AM

There surely cannot be a best sandwich but sometimes MARMITE on
lightly toasted brown granary hits the spot.

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 06:13 AM

Thanks Nathan.......This damn thread has got me going.....This could be a Muffy weekend......or I might try a couple of others from this list.

AND MARY FROM KY......Hi Ftiend......Ya' know I ate those things all over Kentucky and Tennessee and created my own recipe based on the best things from several different places.   It's still the same sandwich, just tweaked to the most richness and taste. When I've given my recipe to people the biggest problem they all seemed to have was making the gravy. Everyone tries to cut back on the fat and skimp on the whole thing. To me, since you don't eat these things but only once or twice year, you just cheat yourself. Also it seems tha gravy making is joining the ranks of "lost arts." BTW, using Maple flavor bacon adds a litle more too, just about to the point of, "My gawd, even I can'y eat this thing!!!"

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Bassic
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 07:20 AM

Just found this thread.

Grilled Bacon (not smoked), fried egg (still runny), a few lightly fried and sliced large mushrooms and sliced FRESH tomato, crusty white loaf (the sort that makes "that sound" as the bread knife cuts through it, dont laugh, I cant describe it! Its not as harsh as a saw through wood and not as intimidating as a dog growling in its throat but you know the sound when you hear it, and the bread always tasted lovely!!)

And yes Morticia, thank you for coming out of the "closet" with regard to that pernicious instrument of gastronomic torture, the onion!! I thought I was the only one!!
I have gone through life being sneered at, made fun of, having my dinner money stolen by the "big kids" and generally being "put down" at my resistance to the "Global Onion Conspiracy".
The only good thing to do with an onion is to cut it into VERY tiny pieces, put it in vigorously boiling water for at LEAST 3 days or until all evidence of its existence has long since disappeared to the naked eye. An essential part of this process is that the cook dances round the pot mumbling, "got you you evil little b********" and the CD has to be playing "Another one Bites the Dust" set on "repeat play" for the whole of the cooking period.

At that stage it acquires a subtlety of flavour which is appropriate, (i.e. I cant taste it and it dosnt make me ill for the next 24 hours!) Then and only then, should it be considered as a POSSIBLE addition to things like a stew when cooking for others so that you can honestly say "yes, it has onion in it".

And whilst I am on the subject! I HATE it when I go to every sandwich shop in the known world, reject the mandatory "do you want onion on that" offer, and then have the wonderful subtle flavour of the other ingredients POLUTED BY ONION because the assistant used the same knife which is ALWAYS covered in onion juice from the previous sandwich it was used for!! The onion is PERNICIOUS and all instruments which come into contact with them should be sterilised in an Auto harp after use!!

So there!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Partridge
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 08:05 AM

I like mashed banana on wholemeal bread topped with fried crispy bacon.

Also lancashire cheese and apple is good.

Pat x

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 10:49 AM

I made the smoked/baked turkey breast last night. So tender and moist, but my 11-year-old son informed me that he doesn't eat turkey unless it is on bread and covered with gravy! We had a good laugh about how this picky eater discovered these sandwiches when I compelled him to try just one bite from my plate a couple of years ago. Another dish he really likes is Chicken Marsala (like they fix at the Olive Garden Restaurant chain). As with the turkey sandwich, he was sure he'd hate it. I had he and his sister each taste one bite of mine and they nearly inhaled the rest of it off of my plate. Same with the turkey sandwiches.

Before I head to work this morning I'm going to set up the bread machine. I'll put in my ingredients for whole wheat bread, and set the timer so it will finish baking at about the time we walk in the house. Both kids inquired about the gravy ingredients last night when I was slicing and refridgerating the rest of the turkey. Yes we have the drippings (I also made a quick batch of stock from the bones and skin and trimmings, before tossing them).

This has been a great thread, and my children are delighted that I decided to act on impulse and pick up a turkey breast yesterday. Prices are going up as we get into this holiday season--I got the last one in the meat market at $1.99 a pound, they're now all $2.49 a pound.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 11:05 AM

LOL at SRS.....We're havong Chicken Marsala tonite!!! My one son, Michael is really odd about food.....drives me nuts. He'll love something and the next time you have it, he hates it. I want to hit him with a brick.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 11:37 AM

Spaw, that rock will have already been used around here a couple of times. This week it's scrambled eggs. He couldn't get enough of them--up until this week. Now he doesn't want them. He'd eat French toast three times a day if I let him--so if next week he tells me he NEVER EVER liked French toast, well, you know the scenario, right?

Our chicken marsala is a made-up recipe to approximate what we get at Olive Garden. What do you put in yours? (Mine basically is sauteed chicken breast, mushrooms, a sauce made from the drippings and some boullion and cornstarch; some kind of chunky pasta to go under it. The wine flavor is whatever I happen to have in the fridge).

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: catspaw49
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 12:30 PM

About the same....a hint of Rosemary. We have used wines other than Marsala so we always name it after the wine. Tonite I actually do have Marsala because last time we had it the wine was simply too damn sweet......and Ohio winery product, Chicken Catawba!!! Karen picked up some Marsala the other day and said the Catawba was over the edge.....I had to agree.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 12:53 PM

We tend to have Chicken Chardonay. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: vectis
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 07:17 PM

Cheese and marmite with homemade mixed grain bread can't be beaten.

Subject: RE: BS: Best sandwich?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 07 Oct 03 - 10:52 PM

vectis - you have to butter the bread first...
Robin