Rodney

I love sandwiches. I like the classics and simple sandwiches, and I also like to experiment. What are your favorite sandwiches, whether they be the classics, restaurant-bought, or your own creations?

I'll start. One of my favorite sandwiches is a simple turkey-breast sandwich on sourdough with lettuce and tomato and mayo, _with_ some pesto mixed in with the mayo. God, that's good.

Also:

* Steak sandwich with fried onions on foccacia bread. Easy to do and oh so tasty.

* I truly love peanut-butter and banana sandwiches; and they make a good lunch _or_ breakfast. Sometimes I also add jam, and sometimes I add raisins (surprisingly good, and a lot healthier than the jam)

* I don't make them at home, but I'm a big fan of the classic triple-decker club sandwich, with ham, turkey, bacon, and all the rest including lots of mayo. A good club sandwich is, by definition, not good _for_ you :-).

* A simple sandwich of swiss or gouda cheese on a roll (sourdough or francese) with tomato, lots of onion, and olive oil for dressing. I don't know why, it just makes my taste buds stand up and applaud.

*Beef and avocado. Any deli beef or leftover roast on whole wheat with avocado, tabasco sauce, and mayo or a little butter. My stomach is _very_ happy after one of these.

So, what are your great sandwiches?

maleficent

my favorite sammich of late

Turkey breast/Fresh Spinach/Cranberry Sauce in a whole wheat tortilla

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Redlemon

Koch's Deli in Philadelphia made the "LBK"; I think that's the initials of one of the brothers who ran the place. (This was about 15 years ago.)

Assemble as follows:

Rye Bread
Russian dressing
Turkey
Tomato
Turkey
Russian dressing
Rye bread
Russian dressing
Roast beef
Cole slaw
Roast beef
Russian dressing
Rye bread

It's huge, tasty, and does a lovely "white-red-white/red-white-red" thing with the fillings.

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Ample

My guilty pleasure as of Late is the Tuscan Chicken Sandwich at Panera

Chicken with a aioli sauce
Greens
Tomato
Red Onion

They have this salad called The Fuji Apple Chicken, and I always get a side of this apple vinaigrette dressing that comes with the salad to dip my sandwich in. Heaven on Earth is all I can say.

But watch out, 700 calories

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snowy

We have a regional sub joint that started out here where I live called Big Town Hero. They make one of my favorite sandwiches--Turkey Bacon Avocado, on their soft white bread. Mmm, mm, mm. I'm actually off to lunch to have one right now!

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Brewmaniac

What I eat alot is a simple sandwich made of whole grain bread, toasted, lunch meat, what ever we have. Today it was deli Roast Beef and swiss. Melt the cheese on the meat 30 seconds in micro. Spread Wasabi mayo on hot toast and slide meat/cheese on to toast.
You've got a crunchy, melty delight!

You can liven it up with whatever you want, mushrooms, onions, cheader or anything.
Turkey, bacon and guacamole is another favorite the key toasting the bread and melting the cheese.
Doing it at home is so cheap and easy. Sure beats $6($9 if you buy chips and drink) at Subway, witch sucks - IMO

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Charlatan

I am a huge fan of the Peanut Butter and Banana sandwich... and also agree that the classic triple decker club house is most excellent. It has to be made with real roast chicken or turkey though, not just sliced deli versions of the same.

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maleficent

my favorite sammich in college was peanut butter and bacon on toasty rye bread .... I'm not sure iwoudl survive it now but good gawd was it good (well then again, anyhting was better than mystery meat on a shingle)

Another choice I like is turkey/swiss/russian dressing/cole slaw on really hearty rye bread... and a side order of a pacemaker

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Grasshopper Green

Turkey bacon avocado is so good.

I think that the best sandwich I've ever had was at a local bagel shop, and it had turkey, avocado, a cranberry relish, lettuce, tomato, and a little mustard on a fresh wheat bagel. Heavenly.

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doodlebird

from the above toasters...
umm, i mean posters...
cranberry on turkey. yum.
grilled onions with roast beef. no doubt.
coleslaw on just about savory sammy. hell yeah.

i find horseradish to be an underused sandwich companion.
i like it with roast beef, turkey, or ham. so versatile!

i've eaten three sandwiches in the last 24 hrs.
today lunch i had a smoked ham and mushroom brie.
last night i had the same but with a couple slices of sopressata.
the salami didn't add enough to justify dulling the ham flavor.
both had maille (a dijon) on a seed-y bread.
(seed were millet, sunflower, poppy, and something else... who cares)
for dinnner tonight,
grilled chicken with melted cotswold.
the chives in the cheese made this one something special.

but those are just what i've eaten in the last few days.

my 100% favorite all time sammich follows.
it only comes around during our thanksgiving season.
-real sliced oven roasted turkey breast, not the deli kind.
-freshly made cranberry / orange sauce w/ rosemary.
-mashed sweet potatoes sweetened with eggnog
-dressing / stuffing (whatever you want to call it) with onions and celery.
-all on a soft foccocia.

holy cow. i'm freakin' starving now.
i think i'll go in for another ham and brie.

i heart this thread.

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Gatorade Frost

Meatball Marinara sub from Subway

Otherwise I go for ham and cheese on wheat with the works. Jason's Deli's Club Royale is fantastic, too.

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simonrex22

Basic Sandwich: Salami and Swiss Chesse on rye bread with mayo and goldens spicy mustard. Lettuce tomato and onions optional. Season the tomatoes with salt pepper and oregano.

Found this recipe in FHM magazine: Its called Rachael Rays Badass Sammy.
--Extra Virgin Olive oil in the pan
--chop 4 slices of bacon into one inch pieces and fry
--remove bacon and leave all the grease
--add two big cloves of garlic nice and thinly chopped (with razor like in Goodfellas)
--Add one sliced onion
--chop up roast beef chunks and add
--add worcheshire sauce and steak seasoning
--pour in half a bottle of beer and let it cook off
--lightly toast a roll
--put all the mixture on the bottom of the roll
--cheese on top and melt
--use the top of the bun to soak up some of the grease in the pan.

The title of this article is Death by Racheal. This sandwich is definitely a heart stopper, but damn it sounds good.

Frosstbyte

Man, why did someone have to bring up Koch's? Sweet sweet Koch's deli, how I miss you so! I ate so much food there, I can't even describe it. Mountains of corned beef, piles of potato salad and rivers of black and white milkshakes. All of it so delicious.

The Koch brothers, regretably, indulged too much in their own delicious food. Bobby passed away last summer from a heart attack and, from what my friends still at Penn tell me, it's just not the same. No surprise there, but I'm very sad that I'll never be able to return there for a hoagie roll stuffed with turkey, corned beef and potato salad-why have you foresaken me, Restaurant School Special?

I guess I'll just have to go drink myself stupid at Monk's on Belgian beer and fries. Could be worse!

shalafi

I'll 2nd the turkey w/ mayo n pesto. I usually get that once or twice a week for lunch. My all time favorite was the Leri Special at Pappy's Place. It was a little Brazillian place I used to love. It was a sad sad day when they sold the place and moved back up north. Anyway, Leri used to make this sub one of the regulars named the Leri Special. He would toast a sub roll and squirt on a liberal coating of horseradish sauce while he was microwaving a nice heaping pile of roast beef topped with bacon and swiss cheese. He would put the meat on there about 2 inches thick the whole length of the sub. The smell of the beef/bacon/swiss/horseradish combo all mixed together was just incredible. I can almost taste it right now.

Rodney

Turkey and cranberry sauce is definitely a winner. In my youth, around the holidays I'd make them with the leftover dressing and gravy, too, similar to Doodlebird.

Avocado (or guacamole) is a great addition to most sandwiches, particularly beef or turkey and of course cheese. I like spicy or hot guacamole in a turkey sandwich.

A great pastrami sandwich is heaven, of course. But I haven't had a really good one in 15 years, since I left San Francisco and stopped eating lunch at Quincy's down at the Civic Center (I hear it's still there, too). The central California coast is not big on premium deli meats. Every once in a while I go to the local Togo's and order a hot pastrami; and it's okay, but it's not the same.

When I was a kid, I was really fond of spaghetti sandwiches. You'd take leftover spaghetti with the meat sauce mixed in, heat it (not _too_ hot) and plop it down between two pieces of bread dressed with mayo, and layer in some Swiss cheese, maybe a little tabasco if I was feeling frisky. People look at me like I'm crazy when I describe this, but it's not that much difference than a slice of pizza. And when I was 12, I though it was great!

la petite moi

Toasted ciabatta bread with: tomatoes, asian pears, pesto, swiss cheese, lettuce, red onions, and avocado. Soooooo good. Sadly, I do not eat this anymore. Oh, and I forgot- put some poppyseed dressing on this too.

Rodney

You gotta be from California. That's the only state where a sandwich like that could actually exist!

(well, maybe small parts of Oregon and Washington, too).

And since I'm from California, that sounds pretty darned good, though I do wonder about pears and pesto together. I'd certainly give it a try.

powerclown

Alltime favorite: Corned beef on rye (lean), russian dressing, swiss cheese, extra russian on the side.
Sometimes good on the heel of the loaf if one feels like battling the sandwich.

Second favorite: muffaleta, Central grocery, New Orleans.
-generous layers of imported ham, provolone cheese, salami, mortadella.
-generous ladel-full of olive salad on seeded muffuletta bread. You can smell this thing from 2 miles away.



Third: Fresh pastrami on rye with mustard and swiss, extra mustard bottle nearby.

In case of acute and sudden late night sandwich craving coupled with barren refrigerator syndrome, a loaded subway double meat bmt on wheat will do the trick for me until morning comes. Another fine subway emergency sandwich is a double meat tuna/seafood combo with lettuce and onions. I also am not ashamed to say i really like Wendy's roasted turkey and basil pesto frescatta.

maleficent

oooh pastrami....

any good diner (in theland of diners) will have the "killer" sammich

Good hearty seeded rye bread, sliced thick and toasted
mustard on one end
onions
swiss cheese
a load of hot pastrami
chicken liver pate
another piece of rye bread

mmmmm mmmmm good

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Willravel

Lean pastrami, monterey jack cheese, sprouts, tomato, red onions, and my own special sauce in white or italian pocket bread, toasted for about 7 minutes at 300 degrees.

Probably my favorite. That or a PBJ (Jiffy creamy, Trader Joes organic rasberry, Milton's bread) with a tall glass of milk (organic 2%).

cookmo

There is a sandwich at The Cheese Cake factory that is divine. It's the shrimp and bacon. It has large grilled gulf shrimp, bacon, tomato, lettuce, and a roumalade sauce, on three layers of grilled bread.mmmmmmmmmm

powerclown

that is a very adventurous sandwich!

maleficent

something about the chicken livers and the pastrami... good lord is it good... keep a defibrualtor standingby though

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powerclown

Although its a stretch, I'd be willing to try almost any combination of meat on bread, medical gear or not.

Rodney

Oh god, I forgot -- a fried-shrimp po'boy. Had one of the them in New Orleans once, on my only visit, and about lived on them for the whole weekend. They are _tasty._

New Orleans is -- or was -- a great sandwich town.

mtsgsd

I'll second the muffeletta, but my favorite is a Cuban Pork sandwich. Pulled pork, ham, cheese, pickle, mayo, and mustard, on heavy bread and it's grilled under a weight like a panini. Them's good eating.

shalafi

oooohh ya cubans are good sammiches

Redlemon

I had a pretty bad Cuban a couple of weeks ago . It had way too much melted cheese. I'm fond of a good one, but that disappointed me.

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Zodijackyl

Very plain, and I prefer this without veggies as I do most sandwiches

A portugese roll neatly sliced in half
Roast beef folded on carefully to give the sandwich some initial volume
A decent amount of mayonnaise, but not too much
A stongly seasoned pickle wedge that fits perfectly from tip to tip of the portugese roll

I also enjoy the Subway Spicy Italian(pepperoni+salami)/Italian BMT(+ham) on their Hearty Italian bread with everything except olives and peppers. Subway makes some great bread for sandwiches, and I'm lucky enough to have friends who work there to be able to give me a few loaves once in a while. I also get my sandwiches made perfectly because I know who makes them, which is nice, though I'm not much of a fan of sandwich shop(p(e))s

I also love the New York JJ Cassone's Sandwich rolls for many things, one favorite being:
The roll with some ham folded onto both halves, very important to add volume in this one
A slice of good swiss cheese on top of both halves
Put it in the oven on the top rack with the broiler on until the cheese melts nicely, then liberally apply strong mustard, then close the sandwich and lightly crisp the outside.
I'm a huge fan of stronger mustards, and I'll often eat a sandwich just for the mustard.

newtx

My current favorite is grilled chicken with sharp cheddar on a whole wheat tortilia. 30 seconds in the microwave and you are ready to eat.

duck0987

No love for the Reuben, anywhere I go for lunch this my standard choice for a sandwich. I just don't know what isn't to love about this sandwich; corned beef, sauerkraut, Swiss Cheese, and Thousand Island dressing, all on Rye bread.

I guess it just appeals to the Irish and German in me.

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Rodney

Just made myself another good one, and simple: grilled polish sausage, split down the middle, on a sourdough roll with mustard. God, that's good. It's just as good with linguica, too.

shoegirl

Ok, not really a typical sandwich - I like to think of it as a yummy breakfast sandwich, though. I just take toast (white bread), cut it diagonally, put honey on each piece, and then add a sausage patty in the middle. Thus, toast-honey-sausage breakfast (or anytime for me) sandwich. Add a nice, tall glass of milk and it's delicious.

maleficent

OOoooh I love a good reuben... gotta be properly made though and the rye bread has to be good...

I will never forget being in australia... on a very extended trip and feeling a little homesick, I had stopped in to a place for lunch... to a place called the ny deli (YAY!) and they had a reuben on the menu... their version of a reuben was Ham/white cheese (not cheddar, not swiss, kinda like amercian -- bland boring no taste) mayo, i think it had cole slaw all on white bread... It was definitely an international incident waiting to happen...

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Jimellow

My favorite sandwhich is (natural) peanut-butter and sliced banana with honey on wholewheat bread.

I eat one every day for lunch, as well as a regular old peanut-butter and jelly/jam sandwhich.

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duck0987

Yuck, sounds about as good as one of those turkey reubens.

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captobvious

Grilled portobellos with pesto mayo on foccacia

TonySpilotro

If you guys and gals are ever in Chicago get an Italian Beef Sandwich with Hot Giardiniera & Provolone...some are better than others but you can find a good one at hundreds of places in the city and suburbs. Ask anyone to recommend a place nearby and they can tell you...

We have a place called the Hoagie Hut as well...if you ever come across it just tell them you want a "original cheese steak". Different style than Philly but uniquely incredible...

Finally, a deli called Lucia's on North Avenue in Bucktown....order the Meatball sandwich with homemade giardiniera...sure to knock your fokking socks off...

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pornclerk

In my favourite sandwich you need two slices of good quality bread (not the crappy Wonder bread kind), mozzerella cheese, tomato, and fresh basil. In a fry pan heat up some olive oil. Cook the sandwich on both sides until it's nice and crispy brown and the cheese is melted. Yum!

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maleficent

Italian beef is really good - just don't dunk it (and i know that's sacriligeous to say that -b ut a soppy bun is just gross

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