Oven Subs

Day 357

Saturday, October 10

We had to have these again, because we had all the stuff and the buns would probably have gone to waste.

Oven Sub

Oven Subs

Day 356

Friday, October 9

Oven Sub

Oven Subs

Sometimes you just want a darn sandwich. With mustard.

Toppings

Cracker Barrel Havarti
Yves veggie ham
Orange pepper, sliced
Black olives, sliced
Red onion, sliced thinly
White mushrooms, sliced thinly

Oven subs

Condiments

Compliments salad dressing (mayo)
Whole grain mustard

Reviews/Comments

The bun was kind of hard, but otherwise it was pretty good. Great when you're in the mood for an oven sub. I give it a 7.5.

Chicken Club

Day 348

Chicken Club

Chicken Club

Day 347

Chicken Club

Chicken Club for Vegetarians

When you're a vegetarian and craving that familiar old sandwich, just go ahead and make one. We had to use a couple substitutes, but it was, for all intents and purposes, a chicken club.

I know the question everyone wants to know is what is used for "chicken"?  And, what of the bacon? Ahhh, yes, What, indeed?

The "Chicken"

Atlantic SuperStore sells a great soy version of vegetarian chicken that we really like. It looks like chicken and it tastes a lot like chicken, although you can tell it's not really chicken. It's a good substitute, especially for a sandwich, or a barbequed chicken burger.

Unfortunately I don't remember the brand we buy, since we always throw the enormous box out and store the interior bag in the freezer.

Vegetarian chicken

The "Bacon"

Original recipe
We've tried a few versions of "bacon" since we gave up eating meat but we agree that coconut bacon is the best. Yes, you can slightly taste coconut, but it's really more of an aftertaste or a faint underlying flavor. The main flavors of bacon are all there - sweet, salty and smoky - as well as the meaty texture. We use this recipe but tweak it a bit. We order our coconut online, 4 or 5 bags at a time.

Coconut bacon

It only takes about 25 minutes to make it, and that includes the 20 minutes to cook it.

Our recipe:

Ingredients
2 cups coconut
2 tbsp maple syrup
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp liquid smoke
1 tsp smoked paprika

Directions
Mix last four ingredients and gently toss with the coconut. Spread over parchment-covered baking sheet and cook at 300 F for 20 minutes. Check on it and turn at least twice if not thrice during cooking because it burns quickly.

Chicken Clubs

We did get to use tomatoes and late lettuce from the garden for these tonight. Laura's so smart to plant lettuce all summer.

"Chicken" strips
"Bacon"
Tomato slices (we had German Strawberry & Kellogg's Breakfast varieties)
Avocado
Lettuce
Flax seed bread
Compliments salad dressing
Butter

Tomatoes & avocado

Beautiful homegrown lettuce

We used a third slice of bread just to make them more clubby, but I suspect it would have been a substantial enough sandwich with only two.

Chicken club sandwich

Reviews/Comments

I have to give it a 10. It was delicious and fresh and satiated my craving for a toothsome sandwich. Laura gives it a 12.

Toasted Cucumber Sandwich

Day 334

Thursday, September 17

Toasted Cucumber Sandwich

Toasted Cucumber Sandwich

Old standby, like egg salad. Made with potato bread, butter, mayo, sliced cucumber, sea salt and pepper. Soooooo effing good.

Making a cucumber sandwich

Western Bagel

Day 307

Saturday, Aug 22

Western Bagel

Western Bagel

Ingredients

Eggs
Purple Marconi peppers
Green onions
Everything bagels
Butter
Cracker Barrel Jalapeno Monterey Jack cheese

Sandwich ingredients

Eggs cooking

Cucumber Sandwiches

Day 303

Thursday, August 20

Cucumber Sandwiches

Cucumber Sandwiches

Ingredients

Bread
Cucumber
Mayo
Butter

Sandwich fixin's

Sliced cucumber

Cucumber sandwich

Egg Salad Sandwiches

Day 265

Eggs salad. Old standby. Always so good though!

Egg Salad Sandwich

My Egg Salad Recipe

Boil eggs. Mash them up. Mix with mayo. Tonight's egg salad also has 1 1/2 or 2 tbsp whole grain mustard in it.

Eggs

Sandwich Building

Lightly buttered wheat bread

Egg salad on bread

Add Lettuce

We almost always have BBQ chips with egg salad sandwiches but I opted for lettuce on this one. Garden fresh.

Egg salad & lettuce on bread

Egg salad sandwich

We used whole wheat diabetic bread simply because someone at work said it's "the BEST bread EVER". It's not bad. You don't miss the sugar and the texture is nice.

Reviews/Comments

I rate my sandwich a...7. Good, but not as good as say...roasted veggies.

Laura rates it a 7 too! Wow, we're totally on the same page. We usually are.

Egg Salad Sandwiches

Day 207

Sunday, May 17

Egg Salad Sandwiches

Nuther Egg & Cheeser

Day 205

The fastnest and yumminess was too hard to resist. The bagels needed to be used anyway.

Egg & Cheeser

Sesame Egg & Cheeser

Day 204

Wednesday, May 13

Sesame Egg & Cheeser

Sesame Egg & Cheeser Ingredients

• Eggs
• Cheese slices
• Sesame bagels
• Butter

Eggs, cheese & toaster full of bagels

Reviews/Comments

Sometimes the simplest meals are the tastiest. A fried egg with processed cheese on a toasted sesame bagel might not be the healthiest, but people eat worse things, and it was thoroughly enjoyable. I make perfect eggs. Gets a 9.

Also, I miss Carrie Weeks. A lot. Boooo :(

Pizza Subs

Day 190

Monday, April 27

Yep, pizza again. Nothing to see here. Good, though.

Pizza sub

Creamy Tomato Soup & Grilled Cheese

Day 188

I wanted tomato soup but didn't want to have canned soup, so Laura found me a recipe and I made some.

Creamy Tomato Soup & Grilled Cheese

Creamy Tomato Soup

Ingredients

Original recipe here
9 tomatoes, chopped
1 onion, chopped
1 carrot, sliced
2 tbsp butter
3 cups vegetable broth
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
1 cube frozen basil (frozen in ice cube trays)
5 tsp sugar
2 tsp salt
10 whole cloves
Several sprigs of oregano
3 basil leaves
1 1/2 cups coffee cream
Compliments Garlic Cheddar Croutons

Directions

Wash and chop your veggies. I soaked the tomatoes in a water/vinegar solution for 20 minutes.

Tomatoes, carrot and onion

Melt the butter in a stock pot and add the chopped carrots and onions. Cook on medium low heat while you chop the tomatoes and add the tomatoes as you get them chopped.

Sautéing vegetables

Then add the salt, sugar, vinegar, cloves and vegetable broth. Boil for 20 minutes to let flavors meld.

Vegetables boiling

Cool the mixture a bit and remove the cloves,

then blend in batches, adding each batch back to the pot.

Blending tomato soup

Bring to a simmer then turn heat down and stir in the frozen basil and fresh herbs.

Tomato soup, sans cream

Add the cream last and serve.

Creamy tomato soup

Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

Ingredients

Demster's Quinoa bread
Butter
3 slices processed cheese

Grilled cheese

Grilled cheese & soup

Dinner for two

Tomato soup with croutons & grilled cheese

Reviews/Comments

Well, not sure I can ever go back to canned tomato soup after this. Ever had the real deal? Sooo good. I gave it a 10.

Oven-Baked Deli Sandwiches

Day 187

Friday, April 24

This was an effort to use up the sub buns from the Eggplant Melts as well as the Yves "ham" and all the veggies we had in the fridge.

Oven-Baked Deli Sandwiches

Ingredients

Sun buns
Yves smoked "ham"
Mushrooms (we grilled them first)
Red Onion
Cheddar cheese
Kalamata olives
Hot banana bells
Dijon
Mayonnaise

Sandwich Fixin's

We didn't wind up using the lettuce, green onions or tomatoes.

BLT's

Day 181

Saturday April 18, 2015

We used coconut bacon for the "B".

BLT Sandwich

Pita Pit Falafel Again

Day 179

Thursday, April 16, 2015

Falafel Pita

Pita Pit Falafel

Day 178

Welp. I did it again. Did not take pics of our food. I had great intentions and even snapped one of Pita Pit when I got there. Ordered our falafel sandwiches, had a say with Greg Grattan who was picking up his and Vanessa's dinner as well, then I took my sandwiches home and we ate. Then remembered the camera.

Pita Pit

Reviews/Comments

I like Pita Pit. The sandwich is pretty much always the same thing. I got falafel with baba ganoush and lots of vegetables. I rate it an 8.