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🥪 Sammich 🥪
While we are running out of 🎖️ Summer 👷🏻, we’re not exactly running out of heat. This is one of those days when you don’t want food that’s any hotter than your favorite brand of mustard or possibly a panini press to toast your sandwich. It’s time to stay in with some wholesome bread and your favorite selection of cold cuts…
Some Bread And…
I went into a French restaraunt and asked the waiter, ‘Have you got frog’s legs?’ He said, ‘Yes,’ so I said, ‘Well hop into the kitchen and get me a cheese sandwich.’ ~Tommy Cooper
I love a good sandwich as much as the next person, and all the more so when it’s just too damned hot to cook.
That’s what we have here in late August.
It’s hot and I simply can’t be bothered.
Funnily enough, one of my lifelong go-tos has changed.
Back when I was eating regular mass-market peanut butter, getting out some bread and loading it up with PB and Concord grape jelly was as natural as breathing.
Now that I’m eating the natural stuff, I find eating by the spoonful more satisfying.
Weird, I know, but the stuff I’ve changed to is usually pretty runny and it just drips out of the sandwich.
For regular sandwiches anymore, it’s Cotto Salami and some kind of cheese.
Could be sliced mozz, cheddar, Muenster, provolone, Colby Jack or even American, but it’s playing second fiddle to the salami.
I like a nice Ham & Swiss on Rye.
I like Corned Beef and Colby Jack on Pumpernickel.
What I really like is being able to stack it up quick and get back to my writing in the AC on a miserably hot day.
Stack ‘Em Up
8 Easy Bread Sandwich Recipes
Okay, there is nothing more classic than an egg salad sandwich and they started us off right by trimming that crust right off.
You absolutely do not want some chewy crust messing up your heavenly egg salad experience. This gets a chef’s kiss from me.
That scrambled egg thing they put on next? That’s a hard no from me, brother.
Give me a proper fried egg sandwich with ketchup on butter-saturated toast. Now we’re talking.
I guess that’s part of being a crusty old guy. I get to bail out of perfectly serviceable sandwich videos.
Sorry, but that was a deal-killer for me. Hopefully, you have more tolerance for the variety than I do.
I can experiment sometimes, but when it comes to sandwiches, I like to stick to the basics.
Peanut butter with or without jelly.
Egg salad and no crust.
Chicken salad or tuna salad, but be sure to include the diced celery. No tuna slop, thank you.
Cold cuts and cheese.
Pita pockets or wraps.
All perfectly serviceable sandwiches and well within my threshold of tolerance.
Bonus points for serving at room temperature and cutting into manageable pieces.
I like a giant sub as much as the next guy, but I’ve gotten to where cutting it into one- or two-inch segments is the sweet spot instead of jamming it in bite after bite like Shaggy.
Sorry, that’s just how I 🥖.
With The Crust Off
Sandwich every bit of criticism between two layers of praise. ~Mary Kay Ash
Critical reading is part of our writers group’s repertoire.
We do one page readings periodically through the year among other things.
What I like about that is that we’re all mature enough to use the traffic light approach.
Red light means this didn’t work for me or is objectively incorrect, such as spelling or a grammatical error.
Yellow light (yes, I know DMV calls it Amber but amber is actually orangy-brown if you’ve ever seen it) is something that didn’t work for me but isn’t a showstopper.
Green light, and I think it’s important to tell whoever you’re reading for, is what is working. You can give due appreciation for an interesting turn of phrase, a plot twist or other kinds of pleasant surprises.
Having the full spectrum of feedback is important.
If you only tell someone what’s wrong with their work, it can be upsetting.
If you only provide a glow-up, they’ll get spoiled and think they can do no wrong.
If they legitimately didn’t do anything technically incorrect (spelling, grammar, pacing, whatever), great.
You don’t have to split hairs to reach for red lights where there aren’t any, but it is important to try to help someone hone their work if you can.
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday for 🦊🌆🦊…