i wish
Same here.
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What about mini BLTs with good tomatoes and homemade basil aioli? They’d be on toast, so dryness isn’t so much of a factor. Also bacon is super easy to cook on a sheet pan in bulk.
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I love these project posts!
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Maybe with the sandwiches give style more weight than substance? Cut them into fancy shapes with cookie cutters? Stick a toothpick with an olive on it in them? Possibly eye-appeal could go the distance…
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I do love a fancy toothpick. I had to use them last year to hold the chicken-salad-on-a-bun sammies together.
About fancy shapes: the more the bread is cut, the faster it dries out. I did do better against the dreaded drying last year, with aggressive insistence on the application of damp paper towels, but I also decided not to trim the crusts, as that was a prime vector for dryness.
Lesson from last year: I liked the savory Hawaiian mini butter rolls as sandwich containers (a lot more than the bread) and they did not dry out at all. So maybe I’ll use them again, and just switch up what I put inside. I could also experiment with warming the sandwich slightly (put big trays of them in slightly warm industrial ovens at the church)… could work with, say, sliced roast beef inside.
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Whole grain and sourdough bread also stales less quickly than white.
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I just posted about Helen Goh’s new cookbook: Baking and The Meaning of Life.
Mig, I think you and Caitlin might like this book. Most of the recipes are too involved for me but I think I could do the Orange Cake.
I bought the book! Haven’t made anything from it yet.
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What recipes interest you? I think a lot of the recipes have very exotic ingredients that your mother’s church ladies wouldn’t find appealing but I thought you could sub some of the ingredients.
I’ve downloaded the ebook from the library, but haven’t had a chance to peruse it yet.
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X slice on top of a Hawaiian roll, tuck in the roast beef (or sliced chicken / sliced smoked turkey deli meat) to create a “flower” shape, add small peg of cheese at center. Warm briefly in oven.
Radical option - Large pasta shell in place of bread, Fill with large cookie scoop of salad (egg, tuna, meat, chicken, and/or veggies.
A cold pasta shell with sandwich filling !?
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It could work…macaroni salad, giant-sized
PIPER NOOOOO
Is a complete sentence
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Or you could go full-on old school canapes with vol au vents, mini crisp pastry cups with filling, blini, etc?
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these are cute
I used to take part in a Italian club potluck that included tiny tramezzini, same size as the sandwich bites above
The Venetian tramezzini have a domed shape
I like the idea of mini Smorgastarta
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hmmm - that “frosted with cream cheese” description might be how to avoid the quick-dry of the typical tea sandwich?
I’ve already been schooled on how to avoid The Drying: bread choice matters, don’t cut the crusts off, and build the sandwiches on just-damp paper towels (and cover them with same until the moment you serve them.)
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