Top 5 Sandwiches:
5. Cucumber + Cream Cheese - Deceivingly simple but exceptionally delicious. Refreshing to the palate and easy to get creative with, using different kinds of cream cheese, adding a sauce, or even ham or smoked salmon makes this sandwich a staple.
4. Peanut Butter and Marscapone: Toasted - This sounds weird but TRUST me you are missing out if you haven't had this. It's sweet and salty magnified into a creamy and gooey delight. Especially delicious if you have a sandwich press that seals the edges of the sandwich and makes amazing pockets of perfection.
3. The Medianoche - Spanish for "Midnight", this sandwich is a Cuban staple. Roast pork, Ham, Mustard, Swiss Cheese, Dill Pickles. Doesn't sound like anything extremely special, but the
key to a great Medianoche is the bread. You use a sweet egg-dough, like a brioche or challah. I've made my own bread before specifically for this sandwich and it is worth it, especially if the bread is just that perfect level of solid but able to just pull apart so easily and a tender crust... Hearty, filling, delicious, kickass name, this sandwich has it all.
2. The Melt - Or a Toastie/Jaffal depending on where you're from. The Melt is perfection. A toasted cheese sandwich but with any slew of extra ingredients you want. A personal favourite is spring onion and marinated chicken or pulled pork just so that you get to hit every flavour. This should be at the top of anyone's list but I take it to 2nd because it needs to be toasted and that, to me, is not a pure sandwich.
Honourable Mention: The Francesinha - The Francesinha deserves to be mentioned, it is essentially a toasted cheese sandwich (not a melt as it has no filling other than cheese but you can use one anyway if you want to get creative) served with a layer of melted cheese over the top, and in a bowl of tomato soup. This is the ultimate winter food.
1. The Ultimate Sandwich - No, not
THIS sandwich, or
THIS sandwich (Although I do want to try the Time Sandwich one day) The Ultimate Sandwich is many things. In a way, any sandwich is the ultimate sandwich but at the same time, none of them are. The Ultimate Sandwich comes from your heart and is whatever you make of it.
My Ultimate Sandwich is:
Bread 1 (Preferebly a fresh soft wholemeal or white, thick cut)
Crushed Avocado
Chipotle Aioli
Jarlsberg Cheese Slice 1
Ham
Turkey
Jarlsberg Cheese Slice 2
VERY thinly sliced cherry tomatoes
Iceberg Lettuce
Muenster Cheese Slice 1
Grated carrot
Pepper
Bread 2
This sandwich is my baby, I love it and often I'll add things like red onion or a different sauce or cheese but this is true perfection to me. I urge everyone to experiment and find their ultimate sandwich.