This sandwich started with Hubs’ obsession with baking bread, for the freezer. He has been routinely baking three loaves a day. I don’t think one has yet made it into the freezer. With four sons, working from home all day, a lot of food passes through this kitchen in a day. We have been working on spring cleanup in the yard and preparing for spring gardens, starting seed, growing more micro-greens, baking, cooking, and freezing make-ahead quarantine food.
The perfect sandwich begins with the perfect bread. We keep saying we are going to experiment with many different recipes, and I’m sure we will with some, but we just keep coming back to this basic sandwich loaf, because it works. For everything.
This is a simple bread machine loaf. It can be thrown together in about five minutes. This is Hubby’s contribution to the kitchen work around here, and it’s a good one. He has been making a concerted effort to learn a bit more about cooking, so that he can help in that department, and he does. But he loves the bread machine best, because number one: it’s a machine, and number two: he’s a sandwich man. He will put anything on a sandwich and love it. Prime Rib? “Sandwich.” Fried Haddock? “Sandwich.” Leftover Spaghetti? “Honey, are we out of bread??”
We do not share this love. I am more of a salad, smoothie, buddha bowl, mezze platter, antipasto type person, when left to my own devices. But this sandwich has been a daily obsession for me, lately, born out of necessity, and what’s lying around, waiting to be eaten. We want to be outside working, so we like lunch to be around 30 minutes or less. Our chickens have been laying more lately, so we always seem to have eggs just lying around, and we stocked up on turkey bacon when we went to the grocery, as it was the only meat left on the shelf. We don’t eat a ton of meat in this house, but with 5 dudes living here, you know you have to have some available most of the time. In our area, nobody seems to eat turkey bacon, much. That is perfect for us, because it’s the only kind we eat. The only exception being two or three times a year, when I make German potato salad. That needs the real stuff. But that’s a recipe for another day.
Ok, ’nuff backstory. Here’s the easy peasy bread machine recipe for Our Perfect Sandwich Bread:
- 1 1/3 C. water
- 1 tbsp yeast
- 1/3 C. oil
- 1 tsp. Himalayan pink salt
- 2 C. white all purpose flour
- 1 C whole wheat flour
Add water to bread machine pan. Add yeast, then oil. Next, add sugar and salt. Add flour on top and let proof for 6 minutes. Set bread machine to setting 1, and let it do it’s thing. Around 2 hrs and 40 minutes later you should have a great sandwich bread.
If you have been following along, you may have started some micro-greens with us a couple of weeks ago. If so, they should be ready to harvest. I harvested a batch of radish sprouts for this sandwich, and they were delicious.
For the sandwich:
- Cut a thick-ish slice of sandwich bread
- fry an egg, over easy
- fry 2 slices of bacon
- slices tomatoes
- a handful of sprouts
Grill bread on both sides, then fry up egg, over easy, leaving yolk runny, if you like, fry 2 slices of turkey bacon, add slices of tomato and handful of sprouts, then top with chipotle-lime mayo and chili powder.
For the Chipotle-Lime Mayo:
- 1/4 cup of mayo/or Miracle Whip
- Chipotle Sauce (I like Cholula)
- Squeeze of lime
- Chili powder
Mix together well, spread on sandwich.
This simple sandwich is great for breakfast, lunch or dinner, whenever the mood strikes. What is your go to simple meal? Are you planning to use simple foods that you are growing/harvesting yourself, during these uncertain times? Help others prepare, by sharing your ideas in the comments, sharing your photos on instagram at canigetaramen.food.blog. We can be found as well, on FB, and Pinterest @ canigetaramen.
