Is a sandwich dinner? I don’t imply to open the floodgates of food-based existential inquiry, nevertheless it’s one thing I’ve questioned in my extra navel-gazy moments. I’m at all times down for a grilled cheese to go together with my tomato soup, or a fried egg on toast to nestle subsequent to a salad, however these are extra accompaniments than important occasions. Headlining sandwiches — bánh mìs, Cubanos, cemitas, tuna crunches or egg salads — I have a tendency to avoid wasting for lunch. After which there’s the entire “is a hamburger a sandwich” query, which I can’t be wading into in the present day.
Anyway: Ali Slagle’s sheet-pan Italian sub dinner is unquestionably a dinner. (It’s proper there within the title.) All the weather are there: salami, pink onions, pepperoncini and tomatoes, plus radicchio and chickpeas, crisped and caramelized in a scorching oven and tossed in a basic oregano-garlic French dressing. Serve, as Ali suggests, with a giant scoop of ricotta or a bathe of Parm, and with additional French dressing for drizzling or swiping. You’ll additionally need bread, whether or not it’s torn in beneficiant hunks or cut up open for sandwich making is solely as much as you and your dinner-sandwich philosophy.
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A roast rooster dish is at all times dinner, and Yewande Komolafe’s garlic rooster with guasacaca sauce is a brilliant, tangy, implausible one. Guasacaca, a Venezuelan condiment, combines avocado, jalapeño, vinegar, lime, parsley and cilantro for a lush inexperienced sauce that’s paired right here with roasted rooster quarters and carrots, although it’d be great on seafood, meat, or grilled veggies. Or take this tip from Rosh, a reader: “Leftover guasacaca? Put it on grilled cheese with some pepper jack … thank me later.”
Let’s maintain that sheet pan busy: Melissa Clark’s new miso-chile asparagus with tofu clothes singed, broiled asparagus stalks and tofu cubes in a pungent miso sauce sweetened with mirin and spiked with rice vinegar and chile. Her baked fish and chips isn’t any much less satisfying when it comes to oomph and zip, the zip right here coming from a straightforward home made horseradish tartar sauce.
The weekend is nearly upon us, which suggests we will begin daydreaming about lengthy, luxurious breakfasts. (Even when our precise weekend mornings are extra hectic than hedonistic.) I’m aiming for a cartoonishly tall stack of Klancy Miller’s aromatic orange cardamom pancakes, topped with chopped dates, a smear of orange marmalade and a heavy halo of maple syrup. If the truth is extra a messy pile with out the accompaniments, I’ll nonetheless be comfortable; these pancakes are dreamy sufficient.
And Christian Reynoso’s fast smoked salmon tart is a intelligent tackle the basic bagel with lox, counting on store-bought puff pastry to kind the bottom of this elegant and easy brunch dish. It might additionally, as one reader mentions, be a really good appetizer at a dinner gathering, and even dinner itself. In that case: Is a tart an open-faced sandwich, and is that dinner?
