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Bread sandwich. 2 toasted slices with 1 untoasted in between

The day after Thanksgiving sandwich. It's usually got turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes, glazed carrots, and gravy. Mmmmmm.

My favorite was invented by a friend of mine as far as I know. It's a modified cheesesteak. Like a Tex Mex cheesesteak I guess.

Start by smoking a prime rib. The method is outside the scope of this discussion but I'll happily share another time. Slice it super thin, season with SPG and cumin. We don't smoke a prime rib just for the sandwiches, but we always have them when we have leftovers.

Separately, make some smoked queso. Again, this is outside the scope but don't just do Velveeta and Rotel, make a bechamel sauce add your cheeses, and use fresh tomatoes and peppers, then pop the pan on the smoker to get the smokey flavors infused.

Pop some butter, onions, bell pepper, jalapeno, garlic, and mushrooms in a pan to saute. Once they've softened add the thin slices of smoked rib roast and cook for another minute or two.

Put the mixture on a toasted hoagie roll and cover liberally with smoked queso and a sprinkle of grated Oaxacan cheese. Enjoy your delicious heart attack.

Note: this can be done the poor man's way with cheaper or easier cuts of beef (try it with a chuck eye steak which is several dollars per pound cheaper) or chicken, and can be done with Velveeta and Rotel queso that more people are familiar with. You'll get no judgement from me. I just love it a specific way and wanted to share.

A proper Ruben sandwich is hard to beat. I do love a good muffaletta too.

PBJ. Classic and will never get old.

Croque madame, but it is a bit more effort than your regular stack

A good Italian sub is the tastiest thing on the planet. Every place might do it a little differently but it's the basis on which I judge any sandwich shop.

ITT: obscure local things only locals or scientists could slap on their bread-equivalent.

Though I haven't had one in ages, "Cuban Sandwich" popped into mind first for some reason. Maybe because the next more exotic sandwich I'm aware of is a PB&J. Hopefully the ideas here will expand my world a bit.

If you're going to mess around with sandwiches, the best sandwich I've had is the Monte Cristo. If cooking isn't out of the question then, take some shredded up cooked turkey, some medium thickness deli ham, black forest or honey ham. You'll also need two slices of bread, slices of Swiss cheese or gouda, 1 egg beaten with a tablespoon of whipped cream.

It has to come together pretty fast, but the easiest way to do it is to toss the ham and turkey into the frying pan as it warms up while dipping your slices of bread in the egg mix on one side, when the turkey is getting warm and the ham is sizzling a bit. You know your pan is hot enough. Add some butter to the pan after you have removed the turkey and ham. Add the now warm turkey onto the non eggy side of the bread then a slice of cheese than the ham than the other slice of bread with egg on outside. Add it to the pan and fry both sides. Since it cooks so fast, there isn't enough time to heat the turkey all the way through and by heating the meats first, they melt the cheese fast and you get a warm gooey inside and fried egg bread outside.

*I edited because I was so tired yesterday I didn't bother to grammar check.

You didn't say 'sudo'.

Does anyone know of any Lemmy communities for sandwiches?

Tomatoes? Sandwiches?

I'm recommending my favorite ever cooking channel:

A Really Good Tomato Sandwich | Kenji's Cooking Show

I'm a sucker for good tomatoes.

Edited to add: it's super basic, lol.

Hungry on a Saturday morning at home? Long load times during WFH early in the day? This breakfast sandwich is an experience. It also takes practice, so don’t beat yourself up over something going wrong. It’s forgiving and can weather a few mistakes.

Take your English muffin—store bought is fine—and toast it lightly. We’re not done with it yet, so too much isn't good, but it does need to warm through. Be sure you split it the right way: with a fork and some careful peeling, NOT a knife. This relies on a craggy surface.

While that’s going, start your griddle and grate some potatoes and add them and a little oil onto the flat top. (Alternatively, use the store bought stuff here, too. This is a breakfast sandwich, so who has time for that in the morning.) season that lightly with salt and maybe garlic powder or parsley or something and let keep it going on medium for a while.

Next, slice a little red onion into thin ribbons and halve some cherry tomatoes. Lightly seasoned these, let them macerate (ma-SIR-ate—-or is that only with sugar?) a minute to release some juices and throw them on the flat top right when you should flip your hash browns. Your English muffin should be ready now too. Snag some butter or a little excess oil from one of the other ingredients and drop each half on the griddle.

Take a silver-dollar-sized ball of breakfast sausage and drop that on the griddle too. Take a wide spatula and press down hard and slide off to make the edges nice and lacy.

That should have been juuust enough time for the English muffins to get a little crisp on their crags, so pull them to a warm plate and we’ll start topping. They get some kind of creamy tangy sauce on the bottom muffin. I do Chick-fil-a sauce, but you could do a special sauce of any kind. Don’t do too much zing here and the tomatoes will carry the rest later.

Your hashbrowns should be just on the edge of too crispy, so you can pull that too, on top of the sauce.

Flip the sausage patty and,—once that’s crisped up, but not cooked through— drop the heat. Crack an egg onto the skillet and use a spatula to work that into an ungodly yolk/white mixture. Its fine. You won’t notice. Let it cook for a moment while you move the sausage on top of the hash browns. It should be the right size, crispy on the outside, and just cooked on the inside.

Flip the egg and top with a slice of cheese. I use a mild Colby Jack that melts well and gets out of the way more than American or something sharper. Let it melt as is or dash some water next to it and cover. The sandwich is forgiving.

We’re almost done and it’s all coming together. The tomatoes from earlier—no, I haven’t forgotten them—get spread on the top muffin. Spread because by now, they should be a jam of delicious, tangy, sweet, slightly charred onion and tomato. This is the secret. Do nothing else and put this on any bread with cheese and you’re still winning. But, do everything else and spread this concoction onto the top muffin and you will thank me.

Add the egg on top of the sausage, cheese up. Crown the sandwhich and…. Wait another minute. Wrapping this will help leakage, sure, but u/@hrimfaxi_work knows what they’re talking about. Wrapping in parchment paper or even foil lets everything come together. Unwrap after a short while and groan and satisfaction at every bite.

Bagel: layer of Brie, layer of sliced apple (Fuji or similar), layer of shaved double smoked ham.

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My style is a smash and grab for a wrap. I just fly through discounted salads that would make a great wrap and then hunt down fillers and sauces that appeal.

Favourite being a sprinkle of curry powder, mayonnaise, sun dried tomato strips, artichoke heart strips, shredded lettuce, and a salad mix all drizzled in lemon and sweet chilli sauce. For the kids I add some thinly sliced nuggets.

Hopefully a half decent wrap is on sale too.

I make my own seitan, and the recipe is extensive so I won't list it here. But I do a thick layer of seitan on low-carb bread, a combination of vegan (violife provolone) and dairy (usually sharp cheddar, sometimes gouda or havarti) cheeses, and throw it open-face in an air fryer on the hottest fry setting like they do at subway. While eating it I add small dollops of a homemade sauce similar to chick-fil-a's. It's basically all I need. The seitan I make is phenomenal, and everything else compliments it so well. You don't really notice the bread is low carb when it's part of a sandwich, but it's higher fiber content is both healthy and helps it maintain structure.