Category Archives: Open Faced Sandwiches

Open faced sandwiches are a Scandinavian tradition that has evolved into an artform. Enjoy colorful and tasty creations, and get wild with your ingredients.

Breads, Chicken Salad, Food, Fried onions, Mayonnaise, Mustard, Open Faced Sandwiches, Pepitas seeds, Pizza Sauce, Roasted garlic, Roasted Tomatoes, Salt, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches, Sourdough

Chicken Salad Sandwich On Sourdough Bread With Anis Tomato Sauce, Fried Onions And Pepitas Seeds

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Leftover chicken is fantastic. Carefully pick all the little pieces of meat off, and make yourself a nice chicken salad. It’s very easy and simple, and we quite frankly look forward to the day after the roast as much as the roast itself. We have fallen in love with pepitas seeds (aka pumpkin seeds): These seeds are fantastic on sandwiches, as they provide some ‘crunch’ and taste great on top. We find them to be very under-utilized and the next experiment will be to try them on pizzas. We already know they work wonders on Lavash crackers. Posting this recipe makes us long to have a kitchen again, as currently everything we have is torn out and dumped. Over the next four weeks, we hope our fantastic contractor will be done building it back up, with lovely Calacutta marble counter tops and custom cabinets. Ahhh dreams…

Chicken Salad Sandwich On SourDough With Anis Tomato Sauce, Fried Onions And Pepitos Seeds
Chicken Salad Sandwich On SourDough With Anis Tomato Sauce, Fried Onions And Pepitos Seeds

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Baking, Bell Pepper, Breads, Cheeses, Ciabatta, Dairy, Dressings, Dukkah, Falafel, Food, Open Faced Sandwiches, Paprika yogurt dressing, Roquefort, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches, Spices, Toppings, Yogurt

Ciabatta Falafel Sandwich with Roquefort, Red Pepper And Paprika And Roasted Garlic Dressing

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Well our kitchen remodel is under way now, and today our old kitchen was reduced to rubble, and placed in a giant container outside the house. We are very excited to get the new one in about 4-6 weeks, and before the demilition began we had the sanity to make a few sandwiches and pizzas to keep things interesting while we await perfection. This weekend we shall attempt some sandwiches made entirely on our BBQ, and look forward to being creating. Until then, this is a little gem we made last week, falafel (great for sandwiches), with a nice homemade yogurt dressing. We hope you enjoy it.

Ciabatta Falafel Sandwich with Red Pepper And Paprika And Roasted Garlic Dressing
Ciabatta Falafel Sandwich with Red Pepper And Paprika And Roasted Garlic Dressing

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Beet root, Breads, Chicken, Chicken Salad, Ciabatta, Food, Open Faced Sandwiches, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches

Chicken Salad Sandwich with Beet Root

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Beets are, at least here in SoCal (Southern California) a much ignored root. I’ve heard countless locals sneer at the very mention of it, claiming it taste like soil, and wondering what in the world such a thing could be good for. Well, dear neighbors, here is a sandwich that the beet is perfect for. Make your own chicken salad, and cut a slice of pickled beet root on top, and it’s just fantastic. It add lots of color to an otherwise drab sandwich. By the way, we highly recommend not buying the pre-made cardboard chicken salads in the grocery store, when it’s so easy and cheap to make. It also tastes a lot better by the way. Interestingly, I have no recollection of my mother ever making any such thing, and the first time I even remember having a ‘chicken salad’ is buying one in a grocery store after moving to a dorm in college. I wonder what my mom did with all those chicken leftovers, come to think of it?

Chicken Salad Sandwich with Beets
Chicken Salad Sandwich with Beets

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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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Breads, Ciabatta, Cranberry relish, Duck, Food, Meats, Open Faced Sandwiches, Pepper, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches, Smears, Valdeon

Roasted Duck Sandwich with Valdeon Cheese, Cranberry Relish And Green Pepper

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Roasted duck is a great treat, although the price for a duck in Poway is ridiculous. This is a sandwich we forgot to post dating all the way back to Christmas 2009. The cranberry relish was homemade, and just went perfect with the Spanish Valdeon cheese and the duck. For all you kids out there, it is very likely this was in fact Donald Duck. We’re sorry, we really are, we just couldn’t help ourselves (he was delicious).

Roasted Duck Sandwich with Valdeon Cheese, Cranberry Relish And Green Pepper
Roasted Duck Sandwich with Valdeon Cheese, Cranberry Relish And Green Pepper

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Breads, Cheeses, Ciabatta, Corned Beef, Corned beef cole slaw, Dubliner, Food, Ingredients, Open Faced Sandwiches, Potato, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches, Spinach

Potato Sandwich With Corned Beef Coleslaw, Spinach And Lemon, Dubliner Cheese And Garlic Ciabatta

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After making our Costco Sandwiches (of which one is part of the March 2010 Costco Connection magazine), we still had some leftover corned beef coleslaw… And as the saying goes, “Naked Women Learn To Make Sandwiches and Trade for Clothes,” so we whipped up this little beaut. We love potato sandwiches, and we find that adding the cheese below the tomato changes the way the flavors hit the mouth when you bite into the sandwich. You are not immediately overwhelmed with cheese, but rather you have a chance to taste the potato before the coleslaw and cheese takes over. The pumpkin seeds in the coleslaw are fantastic by the way, and we’ve started to add pumpkin seeds to several of our sandwiches and pizzas with great success.

Potato Sandwich With Corned Beef Coleslaw, Spinach And Lemon, Dubliner Cheese And Garlic Ciabatta
Potato Sandwich With Corned Beef Coleslaw, Spinach And Lemon, Dubliner Cheese And Garlic Ciabatta

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Baguette, Breads, Fennel, Food, Meatball, Open Faced Sandwiches, Pizza, Pizza Sauce, Præstost, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches, Smears

Meatball Sandwich With Tomato Sauce, ‘Præstost’ Cheese – On Demi-Baguette

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When I was a kid, one of my absolute favorite things about visiting our summer cottage in Sweden was the prospect of Swedish meatballs. Not just any Swedish meatballs, but a specific brand. We would always stop on the way to the house to get provisions at the local grocery store chain, and I remember running down the aisles to find the meatballs. My mother would cook them on a frying pan until they were quite dark, but not really burned. She would use lots of butter (where we use olive oil), and we would all sit and munch on meatballs and mashed potatoes while the house warmed up. Good times!

So, it was with great surprise I found one day these very same meatballs were being sold in the local Ikea in San Diego. What are the odds! Celebrating my Swedish childhood, I decided to create a Swamerican (Swedish-American) sandwich. I still prefer the meatballs without condiments – just by themselves, but as sandwiches come, this wasn’t half bad at all !

Meatball Sandwich With Tomato Sauce, 'Præstost' Cheese - on Demi Baguette
Meatball Sandwich With Tomato Sauce, 'Præstost' Cheese - on Demi Baguette

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Breads, Chili sauce, Ciabatta, Ciabatta Roll, Falafel, Food, Ingredients, Italian salsa verde, Open Faced Sandwiches, Pesto, Roasted garlic, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches

Falafel On Ciabatta Bread Sandwich With Roasted Garlic, Chili Sauce and Italian Salsa Verde

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There are so many ways one can use falafel to make sandwiches besides the traditional pita bread. Here we have combined it with Italian ciabatta bread because we love that, hot chili sauce because it’s traditional for at least the European Pita style, roasted garlic because it complements the falafel well and Italian Salsa Verde because it brings any food a little closer to food-nirvana (No seriously, add some to your next pizza, sandwich, paste, rice or potatoes and see for yourself).  The salsa verde is very close to pesto, bu is a lot more lemony which adds a great flavor.

Falaffel Sandwich On Ciabatta Bread With Roasted Garlic, Chili Sauce and Pesto
Falafel On Ciabatta Bread Sandwich With Roasted Garlic, Chili Sauce and Italian Salsa Verde

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Avocado, Bell Pepper, Breads, Burger, Cheeses, Ciabatta, Cooking styles, Dairy, Dubliner, Egg, Feta, Food, Fruits, Garlic, Ground beef, Herbs, Ingredients, Meats, Onion, Open Faced Sandwiches, Parsley, Pepper, Salt, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches, Spices, Spinach, Vegetables

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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Breads, Ciabatta, Dressings, Food, Fried onions, Ingredients, Italian salsa verde, Mayonnaise, Open Faced Sandwiches, Potato, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches, Tomato, Toppings, Vegetables

Potato Sandwich With Mayonnaise, Italian Salsa Verde, Fried Onion And Grape Tomato

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One of the best things you can do with potatoes is to make potato sandwiches. Simply boil the potatoes, let them cool, and get creative. Since potatoes a very subtle taste, this is a great opportunity to bring out your best toppings. A really good mayonnaise always complements potatoes  nicely, and the fried onions brings a little crunch to the party. This is a classic Danish open faced sandwich (in Denmark they call it Smørrebrød), which any kid that goes to school can tell you.

Potato Sandwich With Mayonnaise, Pesto, Fried Onion And Grape Tomato
Potato Sandwich With Mayonnaise, Pesto, Fried Onion And Grape Tomato

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