Food

Making a Sandwich

bgibson135

Over the years I have refined a sandwich favorite of mine and here is how to make it.

I buy the Boars Head Black Pepper Ham and HT White American Cheese and buy a loaf of whole wheat bread.  The bread is not the organic version, so it has the grains in the bread.

I put the Indian Mint Chutney on one slice of the bread and the curry remoulade on the other slice.  I either sprinkle some ground Chipotle pepper on the ham, or on the curry remoulade (and then put the ham on top of it).  I then put a couple of slices of the white American cheese on the other slice.

Harris Teeter has good roasted red peppers, so I put a couple of those on top of the ham before closing the sandwich up.

*I make the curry remoulade out of Dukes mayonnaise, a little Patak’s Hot Curry Paste (HT), and some capers.

NOTE [ 11/21/23 ]: I haven’t made one of these in several years. At some point, I realized that I didn’t like the combination of flavors, although it is an interesting sandwich. I haven’t made the Curry Remoulade in a year or more, but I would probably still like it. My Curry Remoulade was the result of having a really good Shrimp Po Boy sandwich at the Water’s Edge Restaurant just across the river from Charleston, SC on Shem’s Creek. It was a sunny afternoon and I had the sandwich with fries. Fried shrimp, and the sauce on the sandwich was something like mayo, curry, and capers. Not sure there was anything else in the sauce. I found at home that this sauce went well on various deli meat sandwiches. It would go will with ham, turkey or chicken.

I liked the Mint Chutney which I think I got at the Indian (not American) store in Apex, NC. This store was still there when I went through Apex last time. As I recall, one time I found some item on the shelf for about 99 cents, and I took a couple of these jars to the register to purchase. After the man (owner) rang my tab up I realized that he had charged me full price for these 99 cents items, and I said something to him about that. He stopped, looked at the jars more closely and told me they were “out of date” and he couldn’t sell them to me, and he didn’t. What a scammer! I knew how dishonest he was from this little incident. I should have reported him to the Better Business Bureau. And, what a poor example for his daughter which I think at the time was maybe in her early teens, or slightly younger. I seem to recall her waiting on me at their cash register (computer) at least once.