A Nice Attempt

All right, so, the thing is, I have trouble with eggs. I can scramble them, and that's about it. But when I tried to make a fried-egg sandwich the other day, I thought that it might turn out all right. See, the egg started out looking like this:

And I was all, "Hey, look what I'm doing!" Which clearly angered the food gods, because a mere minute later, it looked like this:

That's right. A semi-fluffy, just-this-side-of-burnt mess. But what the food gods didn't know was that I had a trick up my sleeve. They thought I was just going to slap that sucker on a piece of toast, like this:

That doesn't look complete at all, though, does it? Slice up some roma tomatoes, add a dash of oregano and just a pinch of salt, and then sprinkle some shredded Parmesan cheese across the top, and what you have is a sort-of fried egg sandwich that has been saved from near-disaster.

I think that with a legitimate fried egg, it would have been close to perfect. As it was, this easy little dish made for a nice entree.

-Cate-

Tuna Twist

The tuna sandwiches at Jimmy John's are kind of spectacular. They mix the tuna with celery and onions, which is more or less standard for tuna, but instead of just slapping it on the bread, they make an honest-to-God sandwich out of it, adding sliced tomatoes and cucumbers as well as lettuce and alfalfa sprouts. The end result is delicious, and super-easy to replicate at home. 

My own personal tuna salad is made with StarKist solid white albacore tuna (although I occasionally use chunk light, depending on what's available), Hellmann's mayonnaise (which, as far as I'm concerned, is the only mayonnaise worth using), Mt. Olive dill relish (because I don't like sweet relish), and a little bit of regular yellow mustard (any brand will do). Lately, I've been putting my tuna on sourdough bread, although I normally go for lightly-toasted wheat. And then I streamline the sandwich by adding only the tomatoes and alfalfa sprouts, which still turns out to be very good, and a little easier to manage without so much stuffing. You can pair the sandwich with some okra chips and Orangina for a great, light late-summer lunch.

How do you make your tuna salad?

Check out the Jimmy John's website.

-Cate-