So ok, total lie. I haven't been living under a rock for so long that I haven't seen bread until this week. But recently, I've been eating so infrequently that I suppose my brain subconsciously has an orgasm every time it sees any image of food online. Ok, more lies, not just any image of food. My palate is too delicate (read: I'm too picky) to fantasize about just any dish. ;)
This particular dish I came across last week wasn't some concoction that's recently rocked the culinary world. In fact, every kid in America has probably had it at some point or the other. What the frick is this dish, you say? *drum roll* The cheese sandwich.
Maybe because I've been stressing over school so much lately that I find reason to get distracted by the littlest thing, but holy cow, as soon as that scrumptious snapshot on All Recipes registered in my visual association cortex, I knew THAT MEAL HAD TO BE MINE.
So yesterday, I stopped by Ralph's and got Van de Kamp's Honey and Oat Bran bread, Land O' Lake's Monterrey Jack cheese, Challenge Butter's Spreadable Butter with Canola Oil, and some Roma tomatoes and spinach. I wasn't satisfied with the collection of deli meats at Ralph's, and I vaguely remembered that the Trader Joe's next door had some pretty delicious-looking stuff, so I stopped by there next. My plan was to buy this huge chunk of pre-cooked Rosemary-infused chicken breast they sell for $5, but when I got there, I realized I probably wouldn't have time in the morning to keep slicing that thing up to make sandwiches (read: I remembered my laziness) and decided to check out the pre-sliced pre-cooked deli meat instead (God, I'm lazy.) That turned out to be the better deal, since there was a wider selection of meats and the ingredients seemed mostly natural. I grabbed the Peppered Turkey Breast because it had 2% more Iron. Well ok, the actual reason was that the ringlet of pepper on the brim of the slices were pretty, and I'm a sucker for visual stimulus.
That night, I buttered up the bread before frying it on the stove and piling sliced pieces of turkey, cheese, tomatoes, and spinach on top. In that order. (Ask the boyfriend; he'll tell you I'm very particular with my sandwich arrangement.) I didn't get around to eating it until late this afternoon, and had to reheat it in a toaster oven at work. By the time I actually sat down to eat it, however (had to walk from workplace to student center), it had gotten cold again! But one bite into that mighty thing and ohhhh my gooodnesss, that didn't even matter. I usually don't eat tomatoes, but the ones I picked were firm enough that my usual gag reflex to fresh tomatoes didn't kick in. Unfortunately, the spinach was a whole other story. It tasted like bad dried seaweed! I stomached it for the first half of the sandwich, but when I got to the second half, I decided I didn't want the pieces ruining an otherwise perfectly good meal so I picked them all out. I asked the boyfriend, Master of Eating Veggies, whether spinach was supposed to taste like that and he said no...so either I picked bad spinach, or it's just me. :( I've seen recipes where people use spinach in omelets, so I might try that out to use the rest of what I have...
After that success, I spent the remainder of the day zoning out in class, thinking about what other combinations of sandwiches I could make. By the time I got home, I decided that I wanted to make the one pictured above (a turkey, tomato, cheese and egg).
Lesson here is sandwiches are so easy to make! Who knew?! It's so nice not having to slave hours making meat entrees to eat with rice. I'm going to try making them more frequently so I don't have to buy lunch at school, but as Allison said, I really should be careful to not overdo it because I tend to get tired of repetitive meals very easily. ^^;; And God forbid I get tired of this; it's going to save me so much lunch money!
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