Tag: cheese

  • Mystery of the Greatest Sandwich Ever

    Having recently posted a few times about sandwiches, I’ve been feeling a bit reflective.  What makes a good sandwich?  Or rather, what makes the BEST sandwich?

    The greatest sandwich that has ever crossed my lips is undoubtedly the roast beef sandwich from Quartermaster’s Deli in New Orleans, LA.  Hands down.  No questions.  Why no good photos?  Blame it on a broken camera.  Or…blame it on greater forces.  Forces in the universe that would prevent the revelation of such beauty to internet masses that cannot savor or smell it.  Or maybe Todd just dropped his camera the night before….

    Seems fitting, though.  This sandwich (and the deli that makes it) is purely amazing.  Great people and customer service.  Wonderful bread, fantastic quality meat and side dishes – the mac and cheese is outstanding, and something else.  But mainly…it is just something I can’t quite figure out.  After three trips to this place…I may never fully understand the magic.  Maybe that’s what makes a good sandwich a good sandwich.  The mystery of it…

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    Seriously…best sandwich ever.  Like eating a pile of love.  Roasted love. With beef on it.

    Quartermaster Deli
    1100 Bourbon Street [several blocks from most of Bourbon Street’s debaucherous melee]
    New Orleans, LA 70116

  • Varta Strikes Back

    After seeing John’s suicide sandwich I found out I have a competitive side which I never knew I had. Gears started turning in my head to come up with the most cholesterol laden, fatty sandwich I could come up with.  I’ve always wanted to make the grilled cheese sandwich burger before and that’s pretty heavy, so I figured that was the perfect place to start. Bacon just feels natural to me, so of course that was going to be worked in. And more cheese, I love cheese. Normally I wouldn’t advocate the use of the plastic cheese, but it flows with the overall scheme. Still, something was missing. Then I remembered when I made the sausage stuffed french toast and someone suggested sausage gravy, I had never made sausage gravy before so I thought it’d be fun to give it a try. Super easy! Concerns me actually, if I can whip up sausage gravy in a few minutes now, what’s going to stop me from putting on everything. I digress. I’ll let the pictures do the talking from here…

    Sometimes, there is planning involved
    Sometimes, there is planning involved

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  • The Suicide Attempt

    Last night I decided to be smart(an idiot) and try to make something healthy(fattening)  for dinner.  I decided the best way to go about this was to whip a sandwich with some lettuce(BBQ chicken), tomatoes(bacon), turkey(mac & cheese) and low fat mayo(hot sauce).  The result was one of the most delicious concoctions ever put on top of bread.  After finishing consumption of the sandwich, I felt like I could run a mile(sleep), and in no way did I have the fat man sweats.  I felt like healthy eating was going to be a large part of my future eating habits.

    Feast your eyes on the masterpiece that I like to call…

    The Healthwich(The Suicide Attempt).

    First off, I cooked up some bacon.  For this sandwich, I decided pepper bacon was the only appropriate option.  I needed spice and this was going to add to it.  Acid reflux be damned.  What’s a little heart burn between friends.  That doesn’t make any sense.

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    Next step, I threw in a chicken breast or four with the bacon fat.  This was a very important step in the process.  The chicken had been marinating in a mixture of cayenne, cumin, cilantro and chili powder.  I also tossed in a little more hot sauce to the marinade, because what’s a little acid reflux between friends?  Why do I keep saying that?

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    Next up I decided BBQ was the logical next step.  I had a jar of Bone Suckin’ Sauce(quite possibly the best BBQ sauce that I have access to), so in that went.  Oops!  Did some of the BBQ sauce mix in with the bacon fat?  Stephanie is going to be pissed.  One of those chicken breasts were hers.

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    A toasted hoagie roll was toasted in my new oven(did I mention it’s gas?)  In went two of the breasts sliced up into strips.  The Suicide Attempt was beginning to take form.

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    On goes the bacon.  Now that I look at the pictures, It kinda looks as though it’s not completely cooked.  I assure you that this bacon was cooked all the way through.  I may be an amateur cook, but I’m no amateur.  I’m not making much sense tonight.  It must be the mojitos.  It’s like Miami Vice over here.

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    For this sandwich, I decided the only mac & cheese for my sandwich was Velveeta.  None of that real stuff, I needed the processed stuff.  Like I said before, no fat man sweats here.

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    The first bite?  Heaven.  It was seriously as though Jesus came back, made me a sandwich, built me a table to eat it on, added some hot sauce on top, hand fed it to me, then fed me wine to wash it down.  Oh, and I believe he wiped my face after too.  Thanks Jesus.

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    When I said wine, I meant I washed it down with milk in glass shaped like a boot. Why not?  If this is going to be my last meal, I’m going to drink some milk out of a boot.

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    I have no words for the next picture, only that I had the fat man sweats.  I know I have denied it previously in this post, but my perspiration levels were that of a man that weighed 400 pounds.  I’m like Jennifer Garner in 13 going on 30 except I am 220 lbs. going on 500 lbs.  Slightly fat on the outside, completely fat on the inside.  I need to get this under control.

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