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I invented a new sandwich filling

(47 Posts)
thatbags Wed 09-Jul-14 19:04:56

peanut butter, sliced half banana (longwise), lamb's lettuce

What's your favourite sandwich at the moment?

tanith Wed 13-Aug-14 16:45:24

Yuk! Unsalted butter is like eating lard, sorry ladies. Fav sandwich at the moment is a nice strong cheddar with red onion and home made chutney boring but tasty on granary bread

AuntieLouLou Wed 13-Aug-14 14:49:44

New blog post from wordstothewise - My Life in Sandwiches Part 1 at www.wordstothewise.co.uk/blog/my-life-in-sandwiches-part-1

What are your sandwich-based memories?

Coolgran65 Sat 12-Jul-14 22:04:42

jenn - Yaaaay !! I thought I was the only person who loves toast with marmite and banana..... family groan when I have it.

Pittcity Sat 12-Jul-14 21:29:38

I love a salad cream sandwich.... No salad, just butter and salad cream!

jenn Sat 12-Jul-14 20:15:51

wholemeal toast, marmite and banana ;surprisingly tasty.

Galen Sat 12-Jul-14 14:20:12

Having very refined tastes (caviar and the like) you can't better hot thin white toast spread with dripping and marmite

Soutra Sat 12-Jul-14 13:23:51

How did the thread morph into a discussion of interior decor? I am assuming we are talking about "flying ducks? grin

Tegan Fri 11-Jul-14 10:10:13

Bread, butter, tomato, parsley and marmite was one I was introduced to many years ago [the cucumber/marmite one reminded me of that, as you tend not to think of marmite combined with salad].

HollyDaze Fri 11-Jul-14 09:29:36

'Who gives' ...... AFF, hmmm, let me think - could that be 'asparagus, figs and falafel' sandwich?

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 11-Jul-14 08:56:24

I invented that acronym. But it starts "who gives..."

jinglbellsfrocks Fri 11-Jul-14 08:55:12

HollyDaze the comment was aimed at no one in particular. I was simply thinking I invented a new sandwich filling.

WGAFF

HollyDaze Fri 11-Jul-14 08:41:04

cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches.

When my son was about 6 or 7 years old, he asked for a cream cheese & lettuce sandwich - no idea what made him think of that but I made it for him. It became a firm favourite with us after that - such a summery taste to it.

HollyDaze Fri 11-Jul-14 08:38:39

I thought this was supposed to be about new sandwich fillings?

Not sure who that comment was aimed at but if it was me, then that filling was new to me; my sincere apologies for not being aware of that sandwich filling decades ago.

anneey Thu 10-Jul-14 19:24:09

I bought 4 Aubergines for £1. I made Baba Ganoush and cucumber Sarnies. Delish but conscious of my garlicky breath. blush

whenim64 Thu 10-Jul-14 19:24:06

I make my own granary bread, anno but soft white bread has a certain something when it comes to bananas or chips! It must be the Wythenshawe in me! grin

annodomini Thu 10-Jul-14 19:02:42

when, I'm with you all the way on the banana but prefer good granary bread. As for chip butties - they are too closely associated with my MiL!

rockgran Thu 10-Jul-14 18:47:13

I,ve just been clearing out the fridge prior to going away and had a peanut butter, celery, cucumber and lettuce sandwich. It was surprisingly nice. I often make up weird dishes which I name "Honey, I emptied the fridge!"
(My DH is fairly tolerant of these surprises.)

Galen Thu 10-Jul-14 17:52:39

Butter MUST be made with sea salt with the crystals still in it!

whenim64 Thu 10-Jul-14 17:26:37

I really like banana on a doorstep of white bread, slathered in salted butter, but I always fantasise about chip butties, which I only have once or twice a year.

Potato crisp butties are very nice, too - just as lovely as smoked salmon or cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches.

Tegan Thu 10-Jul-14 17:01:26

An award winning sandwich I read about years ago was Stilton and strawberry; it sounds a strange combination but I love it. I can't have peanut butter in the house as I can eat it by the spoonful if I do blush.

BeeWitch Thu 10-Jul-14 16:53:34

I like corned beef, sliced hard-boiled egg and salad cream on granary bread...it has to be salad cream, not mayonnaise smile

newist Thu 10-Jul-14 14:20:18

2 slices of toast spread with marmite, then slices of cucumber between.

thatbags Thu 10-Jul-14 14:19:26

I haven't any Ovaltine in the house but I might just try that, jings. I don't like banana on its own is the problem.

I drank iced Ovaltine at breakfast when I lived in Thailand. Breakfast was usually sticky rice wrapped in a tetrahedron shape in a banana leaf pinned with a cocktail stick which I used to buy and eat at a street stall outside the school I was teaching in. I don't think I've drunk Ovaltine since then. Come to think of it I hadn't drunk it before then either!

Smoked salmon subs, yes! With masses of parsley.

I'm an unsalted butter fan too. I buttermy bread before spreading it with peanut butter. My mother always frowned on such largesse but I can please myself now.

So I do!

feetlebaum Thu 10-Jul-14 14:11:08

I have happy recollections of pita, filled with chopped salad and falafel - on a beach in Israel...

Rowantree Thu 10-Jul-14 14:00:07

jingle- there's nothing new under the sun, so they say grin

Ovaltine: it's malty. Yuck. I hate hot milky drinks anyway, with the exception of hot chocolate/cocoa, but it has to be strongly chocolaty to disguise the stench of hot milk. But each to her/his own!