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BBQ, Breads, Burger, Burger Bun, Cooking styles, Dubliner, Food, Garam masala, Garlic, Ground beef, Olive Oil, Onion, Pepper, Roasted garlic, Roasted garlic mayonnaise, Salt, Sandwich Styles, Spices, Vegetables

Burger with Roasted Garlic Mayo and Caramelized Onions

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This burger looks quite simple, but the onions make it very moist and delicious while the roasted garlic gives it a great taste. This is definitely one of our favorite burgers so far. In the next few weeks our kitchen is being renovated, and we’re not sure how we can keep up our frantic sandwich making pace. We will have access to an outdoor BBQ with a side stove, and… restaurants. Idea for BBQ sandwiches/burgers that can be easily prepared with no kitchen would be highly appreciated 🙂

Burger with Roasted Garlic Mayo and Caramelized Onions
Burger with Roasted Garlic Mayo and Caramelized Onions

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Baking, Breads, Cheeses, Dressings, Dubliner, Food, Ham, Herbs, Meats, Open Faced Sandwiches, Paprika, Roasted garlic, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches, Smears, Smoked paprika, Sourdough, Spices, Tarragon, Tarragon salad dressing

Pepper Ham Sandwich With Tarragon Salad Dressing, Cheese, Roasted Garlic And Smoked Paprika

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One of our crazy experiments finally paid off. The addition of the salad dressing to this bread takes this simple sandwich to a whole new level. The bread, after toasting, is moist but yet crunchy. The dressing adds a ‘zing‘ to the ham. This sandwich reminds us of Woodstock: a mixed bag of nuts making sweet music together. Feel the love, add the dressing!

Pepper Ham Sandwich With Salad Dressing, Cheese, Roasted Garlic And Smoked Paprika
Pepper Ham Sandwich With Salad Dressing, Cheese, Roasted Garlic And Smoked Paprika

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Baking, Breads, Cheeses, Cooking styles, Food, Ham, Ingredients, Italian salsa verde, Meats, Parmesan, Pesto, Pizza, Pizza dough, Salsa Verde, Sandwich Styles, Tomato, Vegetables

Ham And Tomato Pizza With Italian Salsa Verde Sauce

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The Little Pizza That Could!

This is a pizza made from leftovers in all aspects. The dough is actually from our lavash crackers, so it’s a little bit sweet from the Jamaican honey. The Italian Salsa Verde is from a tasting we did with a caterer for our upcoming wedding. The ham is the last of our Jamaican pineapple Christmas ham. Basically we got one of those inexplicable pizza-cravings while making lavash crackers and quickly improvised the little pizza that could.

Ham And Tomato Pizza With Pesto
Ham And Tomato Pizza With Italian Salsa Verde Sauce

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Feta-Stuffed Beef Patty Sandwich With Avocado, Red Bell Peppers On Spinach And Dubliner Cheese

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You may think this is an odd looking giant patty, and you would be right. But there is a reason of course; the patty is stuffed with feta cheese. So take a step back and say “woooa”, then re-evaluate your first impression. Quite frankly, we forgot to take a photo with a cross-cut, so someday we’re going to have to make this again. Until that happens you can always try it yourself, it’s gooood.

Feta-Stuffed Burger With Avocado, Red Bell Peppers On Spinach And Dubliner Cheese
Feta-Stuffed Burger With Avocado, Red Bell Peppers On Spinach And Dubliner Cheese

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Beef Round Steak Sandwich with Cuban-Inspired Dipping Sauce And Blue Cheese

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While driving home from an exhausting day shopping for a new kitchen (who knew there were so many options for beveling), we passed Miami Grille. Well, we passed were it used to be before it went out of business. I guess Poway wasn’t the right place for a $15 sandwich place after all (and let’s not forget tax and tips!). Anyway, this gave us a sudden craving for a Cuban sandwiches, which as we neared our home faded into a craving for ‘something Cuban inspired.’

So, browsing the web for a couple of base sauces, we read them, ignored most, and invented our own. We made both a marinade and a dipping sauce, marinated the meat overnight, and put together this sandwich the next day. It was moist, tender, and awesomely garlicky. Love it.

Flank Steak Sandwich with Cuban-Inspired Dipping Sauce And Blue Cheese
Beef Round Steak Sandwich with Cuban-Inspired Dipping Sauce And Blue Cheese

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Ham with Roasted Pineapple, Valdeon Cheese and Tomato Vodka Mustard On Dark Rye Bread

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We just recently discovered the Spanish Valdeon cheese on an impulse buy from Trader Joe’s, and since then we’ve used it in several of our sandwiches. It’s not an overly strong blue-cheese, but not mild like Roquefort either. It sits comfortably in the middle of the spectrum, making it a great addition to sandwiches because it adds a lot of flavor without overpowering the other ingredients.

This sandwich is on freshly baked Danish rye bread, with our leftover Jamaican Christmas ham (oh soo good). The baked pineapple that’s included was actually baked with the original ham, but you can of course use a fresh one. Enjoy.

Ham with Roasted Pineapple, Valdeon Cheese and Tomato Vodka Mustard On Dark Rye Bread
Ham with Roasted Pineapple, Valdeon Cheese and Tomato Vodka Mustard On Dark Rye Bread

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Half-Moon Vegetable Pizza with Green Peppers, Grape Tomatoes and Onion

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If there is one thing we can’t figure out when it comes to pizza, it’s how to make them round. Tossing them in the air is a mystery which has resulted in much swearing. We’ve finally given up, and simply roll them out. This dough pizza we wanted to make extra thin crust, but the middle of the dough got stuck while rolling. After a recovery operation, folding the dough over itself and rolling again, we ended up with this half-moon shape. Looks don’t matter, taste does (or so we tell ourselves, over and over).

Half-Moon Vegetable Pizza with Green Peppers, Grape Tomatoes and Onion
Half-Moon Vegetable Pizza with Green Peppers, Grape Tomatoes and Onion

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Smoked Salmon Pizza – The Way My Mother Never Made It

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“Pizza!” you may be saying with increduility as you wonder at the seeming incongruity of providing pizza recipes on a sandwich blog.  Well, please bear with us while we provide this rather plausible and very convincing rationale.

In Scandinavia, there is a long tradition of open-faced sandwiches (or smørrebrød as they are called in Denmark).   Open-faced sandwiches are essentially bread, with layered toppings. So it’s not much of a stretch to call a pizza, a sandwich.  After all, it is just that: bread with layered toppings.  For the pizza purists among the readers, this might seem like too much of a stretch, but we say that pizza by any other name is still an open faced sandwich.  Convinced yet?

Smoked Salmon Pizza with Goat Cheese, Olives and Pesto-Mascarpone
Smoked salmon pizza topped with goat cheese, onions, olives and pesto-mascarpone cheese blend

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Spicy Spare Rib Sandwich with Mushrooms and Roasted Garlic

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I have to admit I was looking forward to this beauty before we even started making the smoked spareribs. In fact, while we passed the Costco food isle, I saw this great spare ribs sale and I couldn’t help thinking of what a fantastic sandwich I could make with the leftovers. So, a couple of days later, after feasting on the ribs I finally got around to making this. I wanted to really bring out the flavor of the pork, while adding some classic ‘steak’ flavors on top. So, sautéed mushrooms and sweet chili sauce plus of course a few onion rings for the crunch factor.

Smoked pork spareribs sandwich with sauteed mushrooms and onions
Smoked Pork Spare Ribs Sandwich with Sauteed Mushrooms and Onions

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