Salad Sandwich (after a fashion)

Friends, I must tell you about this surprisingly good sandwich I just made with a combination of mediocre and excellent ingredients.

I was supposed to be taking a day trip to the coast today (we’re allowed to do that, and are, in fact encouraged, to do so). Small coastal town economies have been slammed by the double-whammy of summer bushfires, which burnt a lot of them badly, and then Covid-19. They haven’t seen tourists all year. But, my smaller son woke up with a sore throat this morning, which meant no school for him, and my travelling companion wasn’t sure she should spend 5 hours in a car with me. (There have been no cases of Covid-19 in Canberra since May, but the rules are, if you’re sick, stay home. So here we are.) Needless to say I’m feeling a bit flat.

Lunch time rolled around, and I wanted something to replace the fish&chips I’d been planning to eat. The kitchen yielded a large bag of cheap hamburger rolls from Costco;

some prepackaged ham from the supermarket; a piece of beurre bosc pear; and some very nice organic blue cheese.

The garden provided rocket.
I started with the roll, sliced a bit of cheese, layered on the ham, and peeled and sliced the pear.



A good handful of rocket…

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A bit more cheese

The top of the roll

And into the sandwich press for a nice long toasting.

It was really good, but very hard to eat. The firmness of the pear, slipped on the firmness of the ham, while the melted blue cheese oozed out all over my hands. But it was a great flavour combination, unsurprisingly. The only thing it was missing was some sourness, which I got by accidentally licking some lemon pulp off my finger from the chopping board (where I’d made small child a lemon-honey hot drink for his throat). If I’d had any walnuts I’d’ve put them in too. In future, I think I’d mash or grate the pear or separate it from the ham to make it all easier to eat.