Sandwiches!

[elgecko]

Agreed then; not a sandwich.

 

[MJ5150]

Speaking of this - have any of you tried Elvis's favorite - fried peanut butter and banana sandwich?

Do you fry the whole sandwich?
Like dip it in batter and fry it?

-Mike

 

[Gorn]

Pan frying would probably be better.

 

[ThunderFox]

Space station food?

Yep, but if it's good enough for an astronaut, its good enough for me... I'm not bothered that it's in a packet, it's gorgeous . Although, it's the only sort of sandwich I know that I like that is in a packet.

 

[ThunderFox]

$5.30 (converted) for a sandwich? That's pretty cheap by U.S. standards.

You can get a sandwich here for about £2, or £3 as a "meal deal" so you can have a bag of crisps (or chips if your American) and a bottle of coca-cola, orange juice or water. But if you just get a sandwich, that's roughly $2.70. Sandwiches are usually not bad here either.

 

[fretter]

I keep it simple.

 

[Gorn]

Salami and parsley? Anything else on there?

 

[Aberdumbie]

Do you fry the whole sandwich?
Like dip it in batter and fry it?

-Mike

In my poor younger days I would often do a PB&J sandwich. Put it in the skillet with some butter and toast it like a grilled cheese. It did the job.

 

[Jeff Scott]

Salami and parsley? Anything else on there?

Ketchup.

Now I need to go here, tonight!

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Ooh! I see I get to eat there free all month long, too!!!

 

[FilterFunk]

Do you fry the whole sandwich?
Like dip it in batter and fry it?

-Mike

Pan frying would probably be better.

IIRC, Elvis's cook would pan fry them.

 

[MJ5150]

IIRC, Elvis's cook would pan fry them.

Ahhhh. I'll try this next time. Currently I am out of bananas, so it'll have to be another day.

-Mike

 

[Gorn]

A deconstructed version would be better. Maybe with fried sweet plantains, peanut butter, bacon, on potato bread and then lightly browned in butter.

 

[ThudThudThud]

Carrot and nut, apparently. Very TB.

 

[ThudThudThud]

Do you fry the whole sandwich?
Like dip it in batter and fry it?

-Mike

Ooh, the Elvis Monte Cristo!

 

[Son of Wobble]

There are two Elvis sandwiches to discuss: One his home chef use to whip up, but another he used to fire up the jet for.

Here's the ingredients for the latter, as well as a link to a great article replete with photos cataloguing the lengths Elvis would
go to for this gustatory pleasure.

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[FilterFunk]

There are two Elvis sandwiches to discuss: One his home chef use to whip up, but another he used to fire up the jet for.

Here's the ingredients for the latter, as well as a link to a great article replete with photos cataloguing the lengths Elvis would
go to for this gustatory pleasure.

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I did not know about this one.

 

[FilterFunk]

A deconstructed version would be better. Maybe with fried sweet plantains, peanut butter, bacon, on potato bread and then lightly browned in butter.

Well excuuuuuuse me, Mr. Gourmet Fancy-Pants!!!

 

[Bard2dbone]

I just re-read this thread because I was bored. Now I really want a sandwich.

I like crusty buns where the inside is soft but the crust is strong. That way I can cut them in half and have a bread tasting collapsible inside, with a sturdy fluid-proof outside.

Then it needs some kind of flavorful dressing type stuff. Lately I've been digging olive salad, like you find in a decently traditional muffaleta. Most of the local places that serve sandwiches get a little weird here, but in a predictable way. And I predict that it will include chipotle. I'm bored with the taste of chipotles. In stead right now, I think I prefer a horseradish mayonnaise, or maybe a traditional coarse brown mustard.

Meats are pretty subjective. Lately I'm loving the fruit of the pig. So mixing porks, kind of like in a Cuban is awesome. So this hypothetical sandwich will get pulled pork, then ham, then bacon.

Cheeses are also subjective. But I'm a total cheesoholic and proud of it. So I like to mix a couple of cheeses with different characteristics. So maybe something sharp that holds together mixed with something that melts to a creamy consistency like feta and Monterey jack, or more likely extra sharp cheddar and muenster, or cotija and mozzarella...whatever you want. But the complexity of texture is important.

Vegetation is more standardized. You can go with the completely traditional lettuce and tomato. It's boring. But it works. I like baby spinach leaves in stead of lettuce. Sometimes I like sun dried tomatoes. Sometimes I do Romas. If I do Roma tomatoes, I often like thin sliced red onions.

Tangy stuff. This would usually be some kind of pickled element. Pickles are the most obvious. But you can do the traditional pickled cucumber AND pickled peppers of some kind AND EVEN other pickled veggies. It's YOUR sandwich. You make the rules. I like a slice of kosher dill, several pepperoncini, and jalapenos. If you had skipped the olive salad earlier, now is a good chance to reconsider that mistake.

So there you have it. This weeks ideal sandwich. Next weeks will be different.

That was THAT weeks ideal. I just had THIS weeks.

Somewhere in the bowels of TBOT there is a recipe thread. In that thread I deposited a recipe for something that has never been fully named. My family just calls them "Chicken...Thingies". The chicken thingies are generally boneless skinless thighs, dusted with fajita seasoning, wrapped around a gutted jalapeno, and rolled in bacon. Make as many of these as can fit in your largest covered casserole dish. Bake them covered until the chicken is mostly done. Then take them out of the covered dish and broil them until the bacon is crispy. While cooking these, make a batch of Long Grain and Wild Rice as per the directions on the box. But near the end of the process, add to the batch a can of Campbell's condensed Cream of Chicken Soup with Herbs, undiluted. And stir until it's incorporated into the rice. We call that 'Wilder Rice'. Serve the Chicken Thingies on top of the Wilder Rice.

Now here is the important part: The leftover Chicken Thingies are to be cut into 1/4" slices.

Today's sandwich was based on an earlier sandwich using the Chicken Thingies christened The Best Sandwich In The World (tm). Today's was better.

Potato bread, buttered on the outside
Horseradish mayonnaise
Feta cheese crumbles
Baby Spinach
Roma Tomato sliced THIN
Red Onion sliced even thinner
Muenster cheese
Sliced Chicken Thingies
'Stackers' sliced kosher dill
Extra sharp white cheddar cheese
Potato bread, also buttered on the outside

Place this assembly into a hot skillet, with another hot skillet on top, with a teapot in the top skillet to act as a weight. When the outside is crispy and the cheese has melted you are ready to eat.

Previously I'd made almost this exact sandwich. But I put regular mayonnaise on it and added a smoked gouda and jalapeno dip in where I used the cheddar today while placing the cheddar where the muenster went this time. It was great. But today's was better.

 

[zontar]

i'm hungry--I think I will go make a peanut butter & banana sandwich--on toast

 

[Bard2dbone]

That was THAT weeks ideal. I just had THIS weeks.

Somewhere in the bowels of TBOT there is a recipe thread. In that thread I deposited a recipe for something that has never been fully named. My family just calls them "Chicken...Thingies". The chicken thingies are generally boneless skinless thighs, dusted with fajita seasoning, wrapped around a gutted jalapeno, and rolled in bacon. Make as many of these as can fit in your largest covered casserole dish. Bake them covered until the chicken is mostly done. Then take them out of the covered dish and broil them until the bacon is crispy. While cooking these, make a batch of Long Grain and Wild Rice as per the directions on the box. But near the end of the process, add to the batch a can of Campbell's condensed Cream of Chicken Soup with Herbs, undiluted. And stir until it's incorporated into the rice. We call that 'Wilder Rice'. Serve the Chicken Thingies on top of the Wilder Rice.

Now here is the important part: The leftover Chicken Thingies are to be cut into 1/4" slices.

Today's sandwich was based on an earlier sandwich using the Chicken Thingies christened The Best Sandwich In The World (tm). Today's was better.

Potato bread, buttered on the outside
Horseradish mayonnaise
Feta cheese crumbles
Baby Spinach
Roma Tomato sliced THIN
Red Onion sliced even thinner
Muenster cheese
Sliced Chicken Thingies
'Stackers' sliced kosher dill
Extra sharp white cheddar cheese
Potato bread, also buttered on the outside

Place this assembly into a hot skillet, with another hot skillet on top, with a teapot in the top skillet to act as a weight. When the outside is crispy and the cheese has melted you are ready to eat.

Previously I'd made almost this exact sandwich. But I put regular mayonnaise on it and added a smoked gouda and jalapeno dip in where I used the cheddar today while placing the cheddar where the muenster went this time. It was great. But today's was better.

Today, I made a sandwich out of the last of the leftover Chicken Thingies. But I varied slightly from my most recent listed design. In stead of the Feta crumbles, I used the smoked gouda/jalapeño dip (picture pimento cheese dip, except it's good.) then put the horseradish mayo on that side, assembled otherwise as described above until the second bread. This time, I dressed the second slice of bread with spinach artichoke dip, like it was mayonnaise.

Ohmygodzilla guys. Try this. It's amazing.