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I'm going to make a bitchin' sandwich
Zombiemambo
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I want to make a sandwich with avacado in it. Maybe some spinach leaves, turkey...some kind of spread or dressing on it. If you guys know of any good sandwiches with avacado on them, throw the recipe my way.
Thanks!
I want to make a sandwich with avacado in it. Maybe some spinach leaves, turkey...some kind of spread or dressing on it. If you guys know of any good sandwiches with avacado on them, throw the recipe my way.
Thanks!
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All on foccacia, grilled in a panini grill.
How does that sound?
Sounds pretty fuckin good.
I totally just threw those together in my head on the fly, never had something like that before. Matter of fact I used to hate avacado or guacamole until I tasted it on sandwiches and with tortilla chips.
It does sound pretty fucking good. Then again maybe it's because I have a weakness for pesto, especially on foccacia paninis.
A good avocado dressing also goes very well with something salty to counter - bacon slices, a garlic aioli sauce, cold salted beef?
OH MAN
I JUST REMEMBERED
Sweet Chili Aioli and avocado is like reuniting old lovers in your mouth.
I think I'm going to have to try this usage of avocado on sandwiches tomorrow.
And I'll second sliced cucumber
Or get some pitas and hummus, toss in some big slices of avocado, some cheese and whatever else you might have on hand.
edit: ruzkin's right on, any kind of chili taste goes great with avocado.. I'd probably toss some hot sauce and jalapenos in the pita.
I've had a sandwich that had a banana, marshmellows, bacon, ketchup, and sprinkles on it. There was more shit. It was also fucking delicious.
I agree. What did you use for bread? Caramel rice cakes? Graham crackers?
Honestly, this is how sandwiches should be made.
None of this 'recipe' bullshit. You make a sandwich with what you've got. If you like the way it tastes, in it goes. I'd hope you'd have more savoury options in your cupboards but hey ho.
They don't use sliced turkey, they use small pieces of actual turkey. They mash/whip up the avocado so it's nice and creamy. They use mayo liberally. And they use thick-cut bacon (usually 3 strips).
The bread is basic deli white, but my god. Those sandwiches.
I am salivating just thinking of that.
If you want to get real ballsy, sautee some thin pear slices in some honey and stuff those in.
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Edit: Oh, one of my favorite thing to do in the panini grill, totally stolen from a restaurant I used to go to for lunch:
- grilled chicken, cut into strips
- feta cheese, cubed
- tomato, diced
- mashed potato. yes, actual mashed potato.
- lotsa roasted red pepper dip mixed into the mashed potato
It's no good if it's not done in the panini grill though. The heat from the grill melts the feta, so instead of getting chunks of tasty feta surrounded by bland mashed potato, you get this tasty roasted red pepper and feta infused potato-y filling. It's pretty awesome.
God, panini grills are amazing. I haven't been able to appreciate their full potential yet. At university I live with four other friends in a house and we share groceries, for the most part. We have the next best thing to a panini grill, a george foreman (which is next to godliness in itself), but making whatever you want on a whim is usually restricted by what's in the fridge. Which often isn't much, with four hungry housemates. But I'm moving out for next year to an apartment of my own, one that's much closer to the nearest supermarket, and I am literally salivating at the thought of buying and consuming Whatever. I. Want.
And that sandwich sounds so good. I find feta to be a fairly good "combination" ingredient - there are so many other types of foods that it works well when paired with.
spoilered for tangent:
My favourite? The Arrogosta: curried lobster veloute, portabello mushroom, balsamic grilled red onion, and smoked salmon. $12.50.
12.50 for a thin crust pizza that has smoked salmon, portabello mushrooms, balsamic onions, and reduction of curried lobster.
It's friggin' insane.
The best part is, they list about 30 pizzas or so, but they're all just combinations of their ingredients that are given names. They list every single ingredient and you can build your own pizza.
Seriously. Where else could you get a pizza with pesto, eggplant, scallops, asiago cheese, pine nuts, and CORN on it? Where else?! Nowhere, that's where.
The ONLY flaw with the place is that they don't have any bacon :x
ANYWAY. What I was going to bring up, before I got on this very impassioned tangent, was that my friend had a pizza called the Dynamo. And I really, really wished I had ordered that instead of what I got, because I tried one bite of hers and it was fucking amazing.
Dynamo (pesto, roasted roma tomatoes, feta, smoked chicken, honey drizzle). $16.50.
I have never tasted such decadence from the combination of pesto, feta, and honey drizzle. It was so ridiculously good I thought it was some sort of trick. It's the perfect mixture of sweet and savoury. And I don't even like honey.
Here's the site, you should check it out: http://www.woodenheads.ca/
And on the off-chance you're ever in Kingston...now you know where to stop by for dinner
edit: I found someone's blog post about the different pizzas they tried, complete with pictures: http://agluttoninkingston.wordpress.com/2008/07/14/woodenheads-gourmet-pizza-simply-wow/ And yeah, I've had the Nonna Mela, it's so ridiculously sweet but if you save it and take what you don't eat home it makes the best cold pizza breakfast in the world.
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Sprouts belong in the garden of Satan.
One kind of sandwich I really like are Reubens. I've never really come up with a way to enhance them other than adding dijon mustard... which may or may not already be a main ingredient. I guess the main issue is; what goes well with sourkraut?
Ugh, mustard reubens.
A reuben should be corned beef (no pastrami, you philistines!), Bavarian sauerkraut, russian dressing, and New York rye.
THAT'S IT.
At least it was topical. Go make a pizza advice thread and run off at the mouth about your pizzas.
Of course, I'll happily eat kraut cold out of the can when I'm hungry.
Sliced avocado.
Cream cheese.
Mayonnaise.
Bacon.
Alfalfa sprouts.
Dab of salsa.
Very lightly toasted wheat bread.
That is hell of a sandwich.
If you have to resort to snide comments to "remind" me of the rules, you're no better than I am for not following them. You might as well have gotten a moderator to do the reminding for you. Attempts at being clever or snappy just drag it out painfully. Direct and to the point is best.
I'll go edit that now, as I should have before.
I'd agree with everything but the evil shit in bold. I think turkey would be a good substitute, especially since the sandwich is really light on decent protein and really heavy on fat, some of it good (avocado), but more of it bad (bacon, cream cheese, mayo).
Sprouts are often used poorly.
They are dry and have a rough texture. You can alleviate this by pre-mixing sprouts with the spread/dressing that is to go into the sandwich. Anything mayo-based works great, as does anything oily (a simple vinaigrette with mustard/oil/vinegar is a great sandiwhc addition).
Guac would work less well since it tends to be too thick for mixing.
But just throwing a big chunk of sprouts in your sandwich is asking for trouble. You must use it properly. Sandwiches are as much about texture as they are about taste. Which is why tomatoes are such a terrible sandwich ingredient, they are completely incompatible with cold cuts when it comes to sandwich structure. You just get a big slippery mess.
That was just on last week. It inspired me to go grocery shopping and upgrade my default "processed lunchmeat on whole grain" to "fresh lettuce, mayo, honey mustard, bread&butter pickles, smoked provolone, fresh deli ham on california rye".