Monday, January 5, 2009

Day 5 - I Have Just Created The World's Ugliest Sandwich

This is what I served for lunch today:
Yep, it was that color of green. Don't worry--I won't be opening a restaurant anytime in the near future.

It STARTED as an attempt to make a sandwich spread using some of the tomatoes I dried last summer. I rehydrated them and put them in the food processor with a few cloves of garlic. Now, when it's going to be cooked one can get away with using more garlic than is strictly called for. When it isn't going to be cooked "a few cloves" of garlic can clear one's sinuses for at least a week. So, I decided to add a few things to the garlic mixture to sort of even it out. Olives, spinach, carrots (which was a bad idea as they never really got thoroughly shredded and were just odd crunchy bites), onions, parsley....I think there were a few other items, but you get the idea. It was still overpowering, so I thawed out some turkey left over from Christmas dinner, and rather than try to guess whether or not the spread would overpower the turkey in the sandwich after all was said & done, I threw the turkey into the food processor as well. The turkey gave the already atrocious looking goop a new and relatively unappetizing texture, but it did mellow the garlic. And once it was spread on homemade bread and a little extra sharp cheddar was added, it was surprisingly good.

I doubt I'll ever be able to recreate this at any future date, but really, how many times in your life would you want to be presented with a sandwich that looked like that?

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It looks like the Grinch would love it!

Georgi said...

Who cares if its ugly if it was good?

Son of MCMLXXV said...

That title and picture had me rolling on the floor, that was awesome...thanks for making me laugh! I love your humor. =) Luv Sor

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