A serendipitous sandwich.....

[catnhatnh]

...which turned out quite tasty....I was shopping yesterday and in the meat aisle I saw a 1-1/2lb package or turkey pastrami marked down, so I grabbed it.You probably know this stuff-comes in shrink wrap and coated in course black pepper.Not bad tasting but lacking the delicious greasiness of the real thing.So if you have pastrami you have to have swiss cheese, right? I picked up a pack of aged swiss sandwich slices (real cheese-not processed-but cut to the size of a slice of bread).
Now I've had this before and the problem is cutting the pastrami thin enough like it's always cut for a good deli sandwich.I actually have a real deli slicer but using that bad boy to make 1 or 2 sandwiches is crazy-it takes at least 20 minutes to clean properly after use.But a great alternative was right at hand-my mandolin!I set that bad boy up for potato chips and voila....two minutes later I had a half pound of paper thin shaved pastrami and the mandolin was washed and drying on the drainboard....the rest was easy...english muffin in the toaster,a pile of shaved pastrami on a sandwich plate neatly topped with swiss cheese and shoved into the microwave....when the muffin pops up you start the microwave for 45 seconds on high and butter up the muffin.Ding! spatula that steaming pile to the Muffin and add the mustard or dressing of choice and Bingo-fast food goodness in no time. They were very tasty and the butter adds that touch of grease that pastrami must have.For more variety I imagine some sauerkraut might be nice and I'm considering trying them as a brunch item topped with a poached egg. Anyhow,they turned out to be fast and cheap with good taste-much like your humble poster.Enjoy.

[grasswire]

1. sounds good

I used to make english muffin sammiches in the microwave occasionally. Microwave two frozen sausage patties for one minute, tuck them inside an english muffin with a slice of cheddar and microwave the whole thing for one more minute. Voila. A sausage mcmuffin in two minutes flat.

[Stinky The Clown]

2. You're fast and cheap, huh?

:)

[catnhatnh]

3. That's me in a nutshell....

which some also think might be a good idea...that said I love finding new uses for my gadgets. Somehow I never connected slicing meat and my mandolin.