Today the Times prints a recipe for "tomato salad on a roll," in which the final recipe instruction is this: "Cover sandwiches with a clean dish towel and wait for an hour or so before serving." (Sure, they want the sardines and garlic to "marry" and whatever, okay, sure, I get it, it's just: it's hot and I'm hungry.)
Here's my very own summer tomato sandwich recipe!
1. Get some bread, toast it lightly, just a little.
2. Put tomatoes (preferably little ones, and yellow, and cut in half) and torn basil, with some olive oil and salt and pepper, on one piece of bread. Put some mozzarella on the other piece of bread.
3. Put them both under the broiler for like 2 minutes, max. Your cheese bubbles. Take them out.
4. SLAP TOGETHER (putting cheese on top of tomatoes, obviously) AND PUT IT IN YOUR MOUTH IMMEDIATELY, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU.
Replace broiler with a cast iron skillet and flipping, but yes.
@deepomega toaster ovens rule.
@whizzard Toaster ovens AND cast iron rule.
Flavor marriage happens 10x as quickly when you broil something.
@RK Fire Who really cares about the science behind a tomato sandwich?
@saythatscool Your tomato sandwich becomes a Reuben when you piss on it.
@boyofdestiny That pushes things way beyond what I'd expect!
No way.
Gushy white bread
Thick sliced beef steak tomatoes
Mayo
Mad Black Pepper
@Megan W. Moore@facebook
Correct. This is a Tomato Sandwich. These other things - however delicious - are perhaps "sandwiches with tomato."
@Megan W. Moore@facebook Agreed. Except I would use really fresh untoasted sourdough. From San Francisco, preferably.
@Megan W. Moore@facebook you are right. but also a little salt. best thing ever.
But your basil and your olive oil like BARELY KNEW EACH OTHER!
Duke's Mayo. Spliff. A good woman.
Ditch the tomato and cheese and make what my great-grandmother called a hoil samich.
Is flavor marriage even legal?
@Tully Mills Now we have opposite marriage, same-sex marriage, and flavor marriage. That slippery slope is a bitch.
5. cover YOURSELF with a clean blanket and sleep for an hour. Now that's a meal.
@NotAndersonCooper- Are you forgetting the crucial step of first removing your pants? (Not that you ever wear them, but some do)
In your case you can also go ahead and remove your murse and mandals.
@scroll_lock But I keep my Kiehl's in that murse!
@saythatscool - Next to his orange stick and that under eye depuffer you turned him onto.
@scroll_lock Some people don't want to look tired for Pier Morgan's garden party. Sue me.
I don't think a "Good Grief" slug and "little yellow tomatoes" belong in the same post about sandwiches.
I can't believe there's only one exclamation mark in this entire post.
@saythatscool - the others are still marrying under the brearler.
You turn on a toaster AND a broiler? Is it too COLD where you are? How are you getting fresh tomatoes at the North Pole?
Ummm, bacon? Where the hell is the bacon here?
@SeanP Concur. Bacon elevates that sandwich from afternoon snack, to main course. Add a little arugula and that sandwich becomes a well-balanced meal.
So hungry for back right now, must resist.
@hockeymom So hungry for *bacon* right now, NOT "back".
Being hungry for back is kind of Dahmer-esque.