Category Archives: Sandwiches

Baguette, Breads, Cilantro, Fava beans, Food, Lemon, Parmesan, Pepper, Salmon, Sandwiches, Soft white bread

Grilled Salmon With Fava Beans, Parmesan And Radish Sandwich

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This sandwich was really just a quick lunch-snack to keep us going through a long day of yard work. Putting down the gloves after weeding the tomato garden we found a bit of leftover grilled salmon from the night before, some veggies, and voila, a sandwich was born. When I grew up in Denmark, my mother tended to make the same sandwiches day after day. Liver pate sandwich, potato sandwich, Russian salad sandwich, chocolate sandwich (dessert). Rinse, repeat. Now, with this blog, we have made literally hundreds of different sandwiches, and I wonder what my childhood would have been like with that kind of variety. It’s so easy to have fun with sandwiches, so don’t get stuck in the same humdrum, live a little 🙂

Grilled Salmon With Fava Beans, Parmesan And Radish Sandwich
Grilled Salmon With Fava Beans, Parmesan And Radish Sandwich

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BBQ, Breads, Carne Asada, Food, Garlic Spread, Lemon, Meats, Open Faced Sandwiches, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches, Sourdough, Tarragon

Carne Asada Steak Sandwich With Tarragon Garlic Spread

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When you live close to the Mexican border, you can’t help but be inspired by the fantastic Mexican cuisine. San Diego has to some extent adapted many of the traditional Mexican dishes and turned them American. The burrito, nowhere to be found in Mexico, is an American invention that pervades the fast-food culture here. That’s not a bad thing by the way, since I happen to love a good burrito (the best in town can be found in Del Mar at the Mucho Gusto joint). Carne asada is truly Mexican, and is usually flank steak, spiced up. The one we used is from a local butcher that makes his own spices, and it’s very very good, oh yes, veeery good.

Carne Asada Steak Sandwich With Tarragon Garlic Spread
Carne Asada Steak Sandwich With Tarragon Garlic Spread

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Baguette, Breads, Ciabatta, Cilantro, Cilantro mayonnaise, Fish, Food, Herbs, Lemon, Lettuce, Mayonnaise, Olive-Rosemary Load, Onion roll, Open Faced Sandwiches, Pepper, Potato bread, Rosemary-Garlic bread, Rosemary-Olive bread, Rustic white bread, Salmon, Sandwiches, Soft white bread, Sourdough, Tomato

Sandwich With Smoked Salmon And Cilantro Mayonnaise

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How many ways can you make a smoked salmon sandwich?  It turns out there are many – or so my search on Tastespotting revealed.  Tastespotting is pure visual food pornography – some awesome photos of really great food with popularity driven by the online food community. We love it and have had a few of our own creations featured there.  Sometimes I am just starved for inspiration. When we first started this ambitious blog, I thought coming up with 100 sandwiches would be itself an epic feat. Now as we approach the 200 sandwich mark, I marvel at some of the creations that we have come up with. Anders’ Big Bad Wolf Burger is one such marvel.  As you can imagine, with this many sandwiches behind us, it becomes increasingly difficult to come up with a creative (and postable) sandwich.  When those moments happen, I turn to the Internet.  Today it was Draganabakes by way of  a photo on Tastespotting.   That recipe included a shallot mayonnaise. With the abundance of cilantro from my last run to the grocery store, I decided to whip up some cilantro mayonnaise instead.

Smoked Salmon with Cilantro Mayonnaise Sandwich
Smoked Salmon with Cilantro Mayonnaise Sandwich

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Baguette, Bell Pepper, Breads, Cheeses, Ciabatta, Feta, Food, Hummus, Lettuce, Nine grain and seed, Olive Oil, Open Faced Sandwiches, Oregano, Pepper, Rustic white bread, Sandwiches, Sourdough, Tomato

Hummus, Grilled Feta and Roasted Pepper Sandwich

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A few weeks ago, we had a friend visiting for the weekend.  He is a recent convert to the omnivore lifestyle – after over 30 years of a purely vegetarian diet.  Food is nearly like a religion and each style has its adherents who hold to it with zeal and conviction that borders on fanaticism.  So when our friend converted, we were so thrilled that he had chosen to walk the other side that we now consider it our mission to ensure that his forays into the omnivore lifestyle are rewarding enough to cement his place as a member of our growing sect 🙂 “Thou shalt not backslide”.   Still, even with this new adventurous palate, his lifetime of preparing only vegetarian cuisine means that he is at a loss as to what to do when confronted with meat or fish.  He does well enough when dining out, but at home he needs to prepare vegetarian cuisine if he is to eat at all.

When he visited, he remarked that our blog is woefully lacking in vegetarian style sandwiches that he could create at home.  We have been remiss, and so have prepared this little sandwich in his honor. Subu, this one’s for you (more acts of repentance to follow).

Hummus, Grilled Feta and Roasted Pepper Sandwich
Hummus, Grilled Feta and Roasted Pepper Sandwich

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Bagel, Bell Pepper, Breads, Chicken, Closed sandwiches, Corn, Cream cheese, Cucumber, Food, Garlic, Iceberg, Mayonnaise, Olive Oil, Olives, Onion, Pepper, Reviews, Salt, Sandwiches, Tomato

Review: ‘Luxus Bagel’ at the Bagels Corner In Copenhagen, Denmark

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There are some thinks that don’t translate so well across cultures. Bagels might be one of them. It was a dreary afternoon in Copenhagen, Denmark, when I walked into the Bagels Corner. A bit hungry I could not get myself to settle for a plain cream cheese bagel, so instead I opted for the luxury bagel (Choice of smoked salmon, shrimp, pesto chicken, Mexican chicken, etc). I decided on pesto chicken, and selected a whole-wheat bagel with rolled oats on top. Looked great. Then the lady asked me for what type of cream cheese I wanted. Cream cheese? Whaaaat? I decided to see where this would go, so I picked the herb-cream cheese. She added a generous layer. Then the pesto chicken (lots of it), then lettuce, cucumber, corn, and finally she asked me to pick a dressing. I selected the curry dressing. Again she added a generous layer on top, and closed up the bagel. Oh dear!

Review: 'Luxus Bagel' at the Bagels Corner in Copenhagen
Review: 'Luxus Bagel' at the Bagels Corner in Copenhagen

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Basil, Black caraway, Breads, Crab cake, Fish, focaccia, Food, Garlic Spread, Lemon, Lettuce, Mayonnaise, Sandwiches, Tomato, Vegetables

Crab Cake Sandwich: Toasted Focaccia With Crab Cake, Roasted Garlic, Lettuce and Lemon

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I love a good crab cake, so naturally ever since we started this blog I’ve been dying to make a crab cake sandwich. Last week-end we had out-of-town visitors begging us to make some amazing sandwiches, so I thought that would be a good time to try it. One of our friends is Indian and an ex-vegetarian so naturally this had better be good or else he might snap back (he didn’t 🙂 ). When you make anything fishy, it’s almost impossible to add too much lemon, so we made sure to soak these sandwiches good in lots of lemon juice. The slice on top is just for show and is a classical Danish garnish back home.

The focaccia was baked by Wendie, and we highly recommend making more bread at home. It’s a lost art these days, but the smell of fresh bread in the house is priceless.

Crab cake Sandwich: Oven Roasted Focaccia With Crab cake, Roasted Garlic, Lettuce and Lemon
Crab cake Sandwich: Oven Roasted Focaccia With Crab cake, Roasted Garlic, Lettuce and Lemon

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Breads, Calvados Brie, Cheeses, Food, Ham, Italian salsa verde, Meats, Micro greens (lemony), Onion, Open Faced Sandwiches, Roll, Sandwiches, Vegetables

Sandwich Roll With Black Forest Ham, Calvados Brie and Micro-Greens

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Wow, our previous sandwich “The Big Bad Wolf Burger” drew a lot of visitors this week, so thank you everyone for the links and the comments. Clearly we need to make more burgers for the blog. Meanwhile, we made this sandwich over the weekend. It’s simple and easy, but tastes great. The Calvados cheese may be hard to come by, but could be replaced with other aged cheese from your local cheese monger. In the background of the photo’s you can make out our vegetable garden. Most of the greens back there are tomatoes and zucchini’s. Should be a great summer on the barbie.

Sandwich Roll With Black Forest Ham, Calvados Brie and Micro-Greens
Sandwich Roll With Black Forest Ham, Calvados Brie and Micro-Greens

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Avocado, Basil, BBQ, Black caraway, Blue Cheese, Burger, Cheddar, Cheeses, Chili sauce, Ciabatta, Ciabatta Roll, Cilantro, Cooking styles, Food, Frying, Garlic, Ground beef, Guacamole, Ingredients, Jackfruit, Lime, Mango, Mayonnaise, Mustard, Olive Oil, Potato, Roasted garlic, Roasted garlic mayonnaise, Roll, Sandwich Styles, Sandwiches, Smoked paprika, Tomato

The Big Bad Wolf Burger

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Sometimes a man needs to be a man, and that’s when he makes “The Big Bad Wolf Burger“. Oh yeah, 1/2 pound of patty with basil, cilantro, oven roasted garlic and blue cheese chunks. What a great 4th of July celebration that was. Inspired by the moment, I topped it off with crispy hash browns and a jackfruit/avocado rough guacamole. I can’t even begin to tell you how good this burger is, but this is so far the best burger I’ve had in my life. The jackfruit guacamole sweetness perfectly blends with the spicy mayo, the juicy patty, and the crunchy hash browns. These are the times when I think back to all the missed opportunities of my childhood to celebrate with awesome burgers, the food of men 😉

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The Big Bad Wolf Burger

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Appetizer, Balsamic vinegar, Basil, BBQ, Breads, Crostini, Eggplant, Food, Garlic, Mint, Olive Oil, Open Faced Sandwiches, Pane siciliano, Pepper, Salt, Sandwiches

Grilled Eggplant Crostini Appetizer

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Inspired by Jamie Oliver’s book “Jamie’s Italy” this is one of our favorite appetizers so far this year. It also looks beautiful. The crunchy toasted pane siciliano bread and the smoothness of the eggplant (or Aubergine as we call it in Denmark), goes very well together and fills your mouth with flavor and adventure. Eggplant seems to be largely a forgotten vegetable in the US, at least in SoCal (Southern California), and really it’s a wonderful ingredient in many dishes. People, wake up and smell the eggplant!

Grilled Eggplant Appetizer
Grilled Eggplant Appetizer

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Balsamic vinegar, Basil, Breads, Cheeses, Closed sandwiches, Food, Mozzarella, Olive Oil, Panini, Paniniing, Pepper, Salt, Sandwiches, Sourdough, Tomato

Caprese Panini Sandwich

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We love caprese salads so much we had Phil’s BBQ change their menu and serve it at our wedding (They did a great job too). So, it should come as no surprise that we had to try and turn the art of the caprese into a sandwich. A panini sandwich to be exact. It has all the classic ingredients: Mozzarella, tomatoes, basil, olive oil and balsamic vinegar. For the bread we went with our own homemade pesto-sourdough bread, but any regular sourdough will do just fine.

Caprese Panini Sandwich
Caprese Panini Sandwich
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