The right combo of toppings and condiments turns your boring ham sandwich or whatever into a veritable treat, and for cheap too
Currently enjoying adding red onion, cherry tomatoes and tiny little pickles
Bonus question:
When you eat a sandwich, do you nibble away the crust first
The peanut butter and jelly is pretty good if you actually use enough of both and put it on bread which isn’t a sugar sponge
I eat pb&j with some nice sourdough damn near every day for lunch. Feels a little childish but whatever
I got myself a fancy sandwich yesterday to soothe my pained soul, and it definitely hit the spot.
I mean, I'm still hurt, but at least I was in a good mood for a while after eating it.
pained
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:che-poggers:edit: this is a joke about pain being french for bread
i just realised how this looks lmaoWhen I lived in Japan - I was surprised to learn the word for bread is "pan" - パン. It must have come to Japan via a European language other than English. Pan or panis is Latin for bread.
Yeah they got it from the Portuguese or Spanish. Japan has an interesting culinary history. Katsudon is basically their version of Schnitzel. They also picked beer from the Dutch tradition and whiskey from the Scots, solid points of origin.
Katsudon is great.
To anybody reading this - if you visit Japan - have some. You can even have it at whatever nearby local fast food chain restaurant is around. The quality of chain restaurant food is very good.
Katsudon (Japanese: カツ丼) is a popular Japanese food, a bowl of rice topped with a deep-fried breaded pork cutlet, egg, vegetables, and condiments.
The dish takes its name from the Japanese words tonkatsu (for pork cutlet) and donburi (for rice bowl dish).
It has become a modern tradition for Japanese students to eat katsudon the night before taking a major test or school entrance exam. This is because "katsu" is a homophone of the verb katsu (勝つ), meaning "to win" or "to be victorious". It is also a trope in Japanese police films: that suspects will speak the truth with tears when they have eaten katsudon and are asked, "Did you ever think about how your mother feels about this?" Even nowadays, the gag of "We must eat katsudon while interrogating" is popular in Japanese films. However, as of 2019, police will never actually feed suspects during interrogation.
History
Regarding the origin of katsudon, there is an article that "an article was published in the local newspaper 'Yamanashi Nichinichi Shimbun' dated September 1995 that katsudon was served at the long-established "Okumura Honten" near Kofu in the late 9s of the Meiji era. It means that at least in the late 30s of Meiji, katsudon existed in Kofu. For this reason, the Kofu theory is considered the oldest in the information confirmed at this time.
Preparation
The tonkatsu for the katsudon dish is prepared by dipping the cutlet in flour, followed by egg, then dipping in panko breadcrumbs, and deep-frying. Next, into a boiling broth of dashi, soy sauce and onions, the sliced tonkatsu and a beaten egg is cooked.
Damn now I'm hungry as hell for some Katsudon and the closest Japanese restaurant doesn't serve it. But! They do make a really good Tonkatsu so it scratches the itch
Like I live in bumfuck nowhere but the local city has a solid Japanese restaurant and a Korean one that makes really good kimchee so if I got some extra cash it's a nice way to treat myself, I usually go once a month to deposit my paycheck at the bank so it's a "why not?"
Hell yeah. It would probably be my last meal if I was facing the electric chair. With a little Unagi on the side.
Also I do not eat the crust first, I just jump right in.....uh.....I guess the "normal" way?
Fr, I mostly make vegetarian sandwiches now and they are delicious.
sprouts are seriously underrated, add some oil, vinegar, cracked pepper :chefs-kiss:
When you eat a sandwich, do you nibble away the crust first
No, because I use actual bread to make sandwiches.
The crust is the border of the bread, the edge of the world. It is hard and dry and bitter, like the land. Some people eat it first, to get it over with. Some people save it for last, to savor the contrast. Some people discard it altogether, as if they could escape their fate. But the crust is always there, waiting for them. And the sandwich is nothing without the crust.
No, we have Actually Existing Good Crust in most of the rest of the world
It was only a couple years ago that I first tried making avocado toast, and it's so good. Make a couple of slices of toast, then cook an egg with some salt, pepper and paprika. Use about 1/3rd of the avocado, smash it, add a tiny bit of olive oil and salt.
Dunkin Donuts had a bacon avocado toast sandwich with cherry tomatoes on I think sourdough and it was ridiculously good
I keep a jar of roasted piquillo peppers handy as a quick and amazing topping to add to sandwiches. Currently loving them as an addition to my (vegan) grilled cheese sandwiches
bro, dawg, hey, you ever try... pickling those red onions?
Made an onion, diced cucumber, tomato chunk, and feta wrap the other day. Never thought I’d describe a sandwich as “refreshing” but it really was.
The crust is usually my favorite part on a regular sandwich so I take bites and rotate the sandwich to maximize the amounts of bites with crust and toppings from the center.
the real question is how you cut it:
diagonally or are you objectively wrong?Diagonally
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if I feel fancy but most of the time I just don't bother, like getting the bread knife out- that's one more utensil I'd need to clean later
Ok, yeah, I figured out a couple of absolutely bomb-ass sandwiches that you would actually look forward to eating. This is my favorite:
- Lightly toasted good bread, either real bread or like the 4-5 dollar sliced white bread
- Mortadella
- Thin slices of brie
- Bigass slice of very ripe tomato, try to get a fresh tomato like from a garden in the summer. Like if you have to cut out soft/icky spots you have the right tomato
- Salt and pepper the tomato
- Arugula (or spring mix)
- Mayo and brown mustard
- Sandwich pickle slices (or pickled red onions) and be sure to dry those mfs off a bit
- Small amount of hot sauce optional, like a very minuscule scraping of habanero sauce or something with a fruity taste like that, don't use a bunch of mild sauce or it will be all vinegary or whatever. Don't make it super hot
A sandwich has no right to be that fucking good.
just realised i never answered the question
peanut butter and marmite is :chefs-kiss: don't @me
What’s the marmite to peanut butter ratio on that? It sounds good.
50 50 is always good. And excessive amounts of both. It really is good.
