Thursday, April 01, 2004
a sandwich toast
Now that you've met my kitchen, welcome!
I thought an April Fool's Day celebration might be in order and I've been racking my brain all afternoon trying to come up with something to do.
Bake a cake? Do the dishes? Make airplanes out of sandwich paper?
Ah, a sandwich - sort of an edible ode to the fool who designed this kitchen.
He left space enough to make one...
Grilled Cheese with Roast Beef and Wasabi Mayonnaise
ingredients
2 tablespoons Wasabi mayonnaise
2 slices shepherd's bread
3 oz. thinly sliced roast beef
2 oz. Danish havarti cheese (sliced in 1/8" thickness)
3 - 4 slices tomato
to make wasabi mayo
ingredients
3/4 teaspoon wasabi paste [available premade in tubes or purchase the powder and follow the directions on package - I recommend you try, it's sort of like making play doh]
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
In a small dish, mix the paste and mayonnaise together until smooth and creamy.
making the sandwich
Heat a large skillet over medium heat, 1 minute.
Spread wasabi mayonnaise on one side of each slice bread, using aprox. 2/3 of mixture. Reserve remaining spread.
Place one slice bread, mayo side down in the skillet and cover bread with cheese, then tomato slices, and drizzle remaining mayo over these ingredients.
Add sliced roast beef and second slice of bread with the wasabi mayo side up. Cook for aprox 3-5 minutes, until side down is toasted and cheese has started to melt. Carefully turn sandwich over to toast other wasabi side and completely melt cheese - another 3-5 minutes. [Sometimes covering the pan for about a minute at this stage helps the cheese melt]
Place on plate, cut in half and serve.
serves one healthy appetite or two waist line watchers
Now wasn't that fun? And the wasabi gives the sandwich just a little kick.
Here's a secret - the powdered wasabi, and most of the tubed stuff you can buy at the store is really horseradish mixed with other ingredients. Apparently the real stuff is hard to come by. See for yourself. Do a search of wasabi and learn about the real deal.
In the meantime, think about how much fun it is to say "wasabi" - horseradish on the other hand sounds a little stuffy...
I thought an April Fool's Day celebration might be in order and I've been racking my brain all afternoon trying to come up with something to do.
Bake a cake? Do the dishes? Make airplanes out of sandwich paper?
Ah, a sandwich - sort of an edible ode to the fool who designed this kitchen.
He left space enough to make one...
Grilled Cheese with Roast Beef and Wasabi Mayonnaise
ingredients
2 tablespoons Wasabi mayonnaise
2 slices shepherd's bread
3 oz. thinly sliced roast beef
2 oz. Danish havarti cheese (sliced in 1/8" thickness)
3 - 4 slices tomato
to make wasabi mayo
ingredients
3/4 teaspoon wasabi paste [available premade in tubes or purchase the powder and follow the directions on package - I recommend you try, it's sort of like making play doh]
2 tablespoons mayonnaise
In a small dish, mix the paste and mayonnaise together until smooth and creamy.
making the sandwich
Heat a large skillet over medium heat, 1 minute.
Spread wasabi mayonnaise on one side of each slice bread, using aprox. 2/3 of mixture. Reserve remaining spread.
Place one slice bread, mayo side down in the skillet and cover bread with cheese, then tomato slices, and drizzle remaining mayo over these ingredients.
Add sliced roast beef and second slice of bread with the wasabi mayo side up. Cook for aprox 3-5 minutes, until side down is toasted and cheese has started to melt. Carefully turn sandwich over to toast other wasabi side and completely melt cheese - another 3-5 minutes. [Sometimes covering the pan for about a minute at this stage helps the cheese melt]
Place on plate, cut in half and serve.
serves one healthy appetite or two waist line watchers
Now wasn't that fun? And the wasabi gives the sandwich just a little kick.
Here's a secret - the powdered wasabi, and most of the tubed stuff you can buy at the store is really horseradish mixed with other ingredients. Apparently the real stuff is hard to come by. See for yourself. Do a search of wasabi and learn about the real deal.
In the meantime, think about how much fun it is to say "wasabi" - horseradish on the other hand sounds a little stuffy...
# posted by aj @ 6:04 PM 
