{"id":4379,"date":"2014-12-15T22:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T22:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2014-12-18T14:45:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-18T14:45:49","slug":"culinary-sandwich-competition-my-place-w-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2014\/12\/15\/culinary-sandwich-competition-my-place-w-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Culinary: Sandwich Competition @ My Place w\/ Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once every 1-2 months, we get together and do a sandwich competition. I\u2019ve been perfecting my base recipe and building on it. I won the contest for the first time on Saturday and I took photos of the build as it went along. Again, using my old camera until the in-warranty repair is done so the photos aren\u2019t as crisp as usual.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/16005500746\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7482\/16005500746_1074c04284_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/15844022170\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7509\/15844022170_50aaa41941_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/15411639983\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7493\/15411639983_83d6920a4d_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/15843853408\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7558\/15843853408_13a3df700c_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/15411641663\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8623\/15411641663_42c489d1ee_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"View 'Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends' on Flickr.com\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/adamjackson\/16030598872\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8681\/16030598872_21d12dd119_z.jpg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sandwich Making contest w\/ Friends\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Delicious sandwich!!!<\/p>\n<p>Update: I ended up writing down the steps for a friend on Flickr. Figured they&#8217;re worth sharing below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Italian Baguette (french might work, high moisture bread ideally)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Spread onto bread:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Crushed Garlich<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Purred Basil<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-French Dijon (fresher the better)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Oil (extra virgin olive)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Aged Balsamic<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Pepper<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Sea Salt<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-4-cheese mexican shredded cheese<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Assemble Meat: try to fold meat so it layers high in the sky<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Polish Ham (base layer)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Sweet Cappicola<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Hot Peppered Salame<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Black Forest Ham<\/em><br \/>\n<em>&#8211; Black Pastrami<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Extra Dry, smoked American cheddar cheese (from Northcountry smokehouse in Vermont)<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Smoked Swiss from the same place<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>In the oven @ 450F, lay out half a pound of bacon on aluminum foil and cover with brown sugar, cook for 20 minutes so not quite crispy but very close<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Assemble bacon onto meat on a parchment paper<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;&#8211;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Put Meat &amp; bread separately in the oven @ 400 for 10 minutes. Remove bread first on it starts feeling firm then meat shortly after<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Carefully (requires 3 people) migrate meat over to the bread. Note, the longer the meat stays on the bread, the more of the juice will make the bread soggy.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Top the meat &amp; bread combo with whatever you want. I used:<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Baby Spinach<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Hot pepper relish<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Sriracha sauce<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Saut\u00e9ed Onions<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Avocado mashed\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-Mayo<\/em><br \/>\n<em>-other stuff..can&#8217;t remember what<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Add some fresh pepper and fully assemble.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Then I wrapped the entire thing in sticky plastic wrap very tightly for 10 minutes so everything could meld together and it made the sandwich easy to cut into pieces.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Truthfully, you&#8217;re looking at like a $50 sandwich here if you&#8217;re buying everything fresh but it was delicious!!<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Once every 1-2 months, we get together and do a sandwich competition. I\u2019ve been perfecting my base recipe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-08-31T00:20:37Z","apple_news_api_id":"64babbc6-f45a-42fa-926e-696f5b5181e9","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-08-31T00:20:37Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AZLq7xvRaQvqSbmlvW1GB6Q","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-culinary","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-18D","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4986,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/09\/04\/coffee-riverwalk-cafe-music-bar-nashua-nh\/","url_meta":{"origin":4379,"position":0},"title":"Coffee: Riverwalk Cafe &#038; Music Bar, Nashua NH","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"September 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I was visiting some people in Southern New Hampshire and needed an espresso along with a sandwich. 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