Sandwiches: The Favoured Snack of Millions
Ever since, in the 18th Century, the 4th Earl of Sandwich first came up with the idea of "sandwiching" his lunch (purported to be beef on that occasion) between two slices of bread, his simple concoction has been emulated, enhanced and enjoyed around the entire surface of the globe. How many types of sandwich are there? One may as well ask how many grains of sand there are on any given beach! There are few rules, no limits and no great culinary skills involved in the art of sandwich making. If it sounds good - try it out! This page offers some sample ideas for you to try and I hope that you find my suggestions useful. I will be updating the site on a regular basis so please call again for some more new ideas for making sandwiches.
Site Contents
What will I find here?
- What is the Difference between just any Sandwich and a Healthy Sandwich?
- Healthy Bacon and Mozzarella Baguette Recipe
- More Healthy Baguette Sandwich Recipe Ideas
- Toasted Panini Sandwich Grill
- Smoked Salmon and Horseradish Bread Roll Recipe
- Are You Feeling the Effects of the Credit Crunch?
- More Great Sandwich Recipes on Hub Pages
- Product of the Month: October 2008
- How Can I Stick to a Healthier Eating Regime?
- Healthy Sandwich Ideas on Flickr.com
- Healthy Steak and Red Onion Ciabatta Recipe
- Steak Tenderiser
- Healthy Sandwich Blog Posts from Google
- Hungry? Fancy a Sandwich?
- Avocado and Tomato Baguette Recipe
- Healthy Sandwich Recipe Ideas from around the Web
- Healthier Option BLT Recipe
- Cheese and Sage Sandwich Recipe
- A Sandwich Extravaganza
- Some More Great Healthy Cheese Sandwich Recipe Ideas
- Some More Great Sandwich Suggestions on Squidoo
- What did you think?
- Is Food and Eating All That I Write About?
What is the Difference between just any Sandwich and a Healthy Sandwich?
What is the distinction and the basic recipe formula?
In order that our sandwich may be deemed a healthy sandwich, it is necessary that all three of the above mentioned component parts comply with certain criteria. The bread, wherever possible, should be freshly baked, either at home or in a known and trusted bakery. If you can, avoid purchasing plastic wrapped, supermarket loaves as there is a strong possibility they will contain artificial preservatives. When it comes to choosing a spread for the sandwich (if required) try using one of the olive or sunflower oil based varieties. These spreads can occasionally be an acquired taste but there are a great many excellent varieties on the market. Trial and error is an option but why not seek out the advice of friends or family who are familiar with the products?
All of which brings us to the biggest question of all: what are we going to use as our sandwich filling? Think this is the difficult part? En contraire, this is the easy part! There are simply so many fine options to choose from. A fresh leaved salad may be your favourite sandwich filling, or perhaps some cold ham left over from that day's lunch? Whatever it may be, give it a little thought, build your sandwich...and enjoy it!
Healthy Bacon and Mozzarella Baguette Recipe
This simple creation has to rate as one of my all time favourite sandwich ideas. Its clean, fresh, creamy flavour is a joy to experience.Per person, you will require:
1 freshly baked baguette
4 rashers of lean bacon
4/5 slices of fresh buffalo mozzarella
1 tbsp roughly chopped coriander (known as cilantro in US)
Grill the bacon under a hot grill until cooked. Slice the baguette in half horizontally and arrange the rashers on the bottom half. Lay the cheese slices on top and sprinkle on the coriander. Cover with the second piece of bread, press down lightly, then slice and serve.
More Healthy Baguette Sandwich Recipe Ideas
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- Steak Baguette Sandwich to Eat Cold
- Find delicious beef recipes, like steak sandwiches on garlic baguettes with arugula and tomatoes, and other recipes at Epicurious.com
- A Delicious Vegetarian Option
- Find delicious radish recipes, like radish-chive tea sandwiches with sesame and ginger, and other recipes at Epicurious.com
- Melissa's
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and vegetables, organic produce and specialty food items to your home or
office. - Cooks.com - Recipe - Mediterranean Baguette Sandwich
- A Mediterranean option...
Toasted Panini Sandwich Grill
DeLonghi CGH800-U Retro Panini Grill
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Smoked Salmon and Horseradish Bread Roll Recipe
For this preparation you will require:1 fresh bread roll (halved horizontally)
1 oz (25g) slice of Scottish smoked salmon
3 small Baby Gem lettuce leaves
½ tsp of horseradish sauce
2 or 3 basil leaves (roughly torn)
A little olive oil based spread
Lightly cover both halves of the roll with the olive oil spread. Add the lettuce leaves, the smoked salmon, the horseradish sauce and the basil in that order. Serve on a bed of more fresh lettuce.
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More Great Sandwich Recipes on Hub Pages
Lots more ideas for spicing up your sandwiches
- Hot to Make the Perfect Sandwiches
- Covers everything from which bread to select to what to serve as a side dish.
- The Sandwich: Everyday Food
- The sandwich, such a simple name, for a meal, that has so very many possibilities. I eat fewer sandwiches now than I used to, mainly because of the bread. But when I want a quick, healthy and delicious...
- Healthy Panini Recipes
- A couple of very unusual but delicious sounding recipes.
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Healthy Sandwich Ideas on Flickr.com
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Roast Beef and Cucumber
Grilled Vegetable Sandwich
Chicken Salad Sandwich
Avocado Sandwich
Healthy Steak and Red Onion Ciabatta Recipe
A delicious steak sandwich for two
A steak sandwich is a truly delicious eating experience but it is a preparation where we have to be extremely careful that we are not overloading ourselves with saturated fats.I hope you will like this version.
You will need:
1 large ciabbata loaf (about 10" or 25cm long)
¾lb (350g) beef steak (any kind suitable for grilling)
½ small red onion (sliced across ways and separated into rings)
Handful of fresh rocket leaves
1 tbsp horseradish sauce
Tenderise the steak with the mallet made for this purpose (or see below!) Do not remove any of the fat at this stage as this will affect the ultimate "juiciness." Cook under a hot grill for about 4 minutes each side then sit aside to rest for a few minutes.
Slice the ciabbata in half horizontally and toast lightly under the still hot grill. Smear the horseradish sauce thinly over each half. Spread the fresh rocket leaves on the bottom half then slice the steak (the fat may be discarded at this stage) and place on top. Add the onion rings followed by the top piece of the loaf.
Your sandwich is now ready to serve.
Steak Tenderiser
A necessary tool for making a steak sandwich
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Healthy Sandwich Blog Posts from Google
What other ideas are people coming up with?
- Making Those Old Time Favorites Healthy
- If that doesn't satisfy their craving for grilled cheese, try using a healthy cooking spray instead of butter when making them. Add some sliced chicken, turkey or lean ham to make the sandwich a little different each time. ...
- Gourmet Spinach Sandwich
- I was looking for something relatively healthy and easy to make to make for dinner one night. After searching my fridge and pantry, I came up with this easy and DELICIOUS sandwich! Mozzarella cheese is also a great substitute for the ...
- How to Dress Up Budget Food Recipes
- Leftover meatballs can be added to pasta sauce for a nice submarine sandwich. These types of cheap food recipes use up leftovers so that you're not adding anything to your grocery bill. When you reheat any item think of what you can add ...
- Kate Gosselin's Recipe: Fall Harvest Sandwich
- Wonder woman Kate Gosselin has come to the culinary rescue with her healthy sandwich recipes that are kid friendly and an easy way to incorporate whole grains into your child's diet. Fall Harvest Sandwich ...
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Avocado and Tomato Baguette Recipe
A delicious and satisfying lunch recipe
Avocado is something which I always have in the house and eat in some form or another almost every day. This is a superb sandwich recipe which I often enjoy for lunch and is extremely easy to prepare as there is no cooking involved.You will need:
1 fresh baguette
1 ripe avocado (stoned and peeled)*
1 small red chilli pepper (deseeded and finely chopped)
1 large clove of garlic (crushed)
2 small tomatoes (sliced)
3 or 4 roughly torn basil leaves
Salt/freshly ground black pepper
Mash the avocado in a small bowl with a fork. Add the garlic, the chilli and the seasoning and mix well. Slice the baguette in half horizontally and spread the mixture over the bottom half. Top with the tomato slices and basil then the other half of the loaf. Slice and serve.
*Stoning and Peeling an Avocado
The process of removing the stone from and peeling an avocado is very simple if tackled correctly. Sit the broad bottom of the avocado on a flat surface and hold it steady with one hand. A sharp knife should then be used to cut down through the top centre until you feel it hit the stone. Turn the fruit slowly away from you so that the knife effectively traces a pattern around the entire circumference. The two halves should then be twisted gently in opposite directions and should come apart quite easily, the stone still embedded in one of them. Tap the sharp blade of the knife once, gently but firmly, on the stone. The knife should cut in to the stone and a gentle twist should remove it. The two halves can now be peeled quite easily by hand.
Healthy Sandwich Recipe Ideas from around the Web
Which is your favourite?
Everybody who is anybody has a favourite sandwich, don't they? Here are just a few more ideas for same which are available around the Internet. Have a look at them, vote for your favourite by clicking on the small, upward pointing arrow to the left of the relevant title...or better still, find and add your own favourite link!
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Good Morning America Suggestions
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California Club Sandwich
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Cheese Salad Sandwich
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Spicy Tuna Salad Sandwich
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Making Cheese At Home
Learn how to make cheese at home. Great for sandwi more...0 points
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Club Sandwich Recipes
A club sandwich, also called a clubhouse sandwich, more...0 points
Healthier Option BLT Recipe
Forget the grease - enjoy the flavour!
Although the BLT is in theory a reasonably healthy concoction, it is unfortunately most often associated with fast food restaurants. It is therefore possible that in some such establishments the lettuce will be limp and stale, the bacon will have been cremated in animal fat and the bun will be full of salt, sugar and a whole host of artificial preservatives. I came up with and have often enjoyed this simple yet healthier variation on the theme.Per sandwich, you will need:
2 slices of bread
3 lean rashers of unsmoked bacon
3 crisp Baby Gem lettuce leaves
1 large tomato (thinly sliced) - note that I have used a yellow tomato on this occasion but red are equally acceptable
1 small spring onion, scallion in US (thinly sliced)
1 large clove of garlic (crushed)
4 basil leaves (torn in to small pieces)
25g (1oz) oil based spread
Freshly ground black pepper
In a small dish, combine the olive oil based butter alternative, the garlic and black pepper to taste. Put the bacon on to cook under a hot grill. Divide the spread mixture over the slices of bread. Add the lettuce leaves to one slice, followed by the cooked bacon, the chopped spring onion, two or three tomato slices and a couple of torn basil leaves. Top with the second slice of bread and serve immediately.
Cheese and Sage Sandwich Recipe
So simple...so quick...so tasty!
Cheese must be one of the most common sandwich ingredients there is. Almost every household regularly buys cheese of one type or another, do they not? This recipe is so basic and simple it perhaps doesn't merit inclusion here but I think of this as a little twist on a traditional classic that just seems to give it a little something extra...You will need, per sandwich:
2 slices of bread
3 or 4 slices of cheddar cheese (enough to cover one slice of bread)
A generous pinch of dried sage
Freshly ground black pepper
Simply place the cheese slices on one slice of bread and place under a very hot grill until the cheese begins to bubble. Sprinkle the sage over the cheese, season well with black pepper and return to the grill for about thirty seconds. Cover with the second slice of bread and serve.
A Sandwich Extravaganza
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Some More Great Healthy Cheese Sandwich Recipe Ideas
Click on any of the links below for details
- Laporte-Obello Grilled Cheese Sandwich recipe: Sandwich recipes on MedicineNet.com
- Healthy recipes for Lighter, Healthier sandwich, Laporte-Obello Grilled Cheese Sandwich recipe on MedicineNet.com
- About.com
- Pita bread cheese sandwich
- Tuscan Grilled Cheese Sandwich
- A delicious sandwich recipe idea from Tuscany
- Grilled Eggplant and Mozzarella Sandwich
- Find delicious cheese recipes, like grilled eggplant and mozzarella sandwiches, and other American recipes at Epicurious.com
- Healthy And Tasty: Vegetable - Cheese Sandwich
- Vegetable cheese sandwich idea
Some More Great Sandwich Suggestions on Squidoo
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How to Make the Best Grilled Cheese Sandwiches
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There's nothing like a grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of tomato soup for comfort food. Here are my tips for making the best grilled cheese sandwich. Enjoy!
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Best Panini Sandwich Recipes
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Two slices of of Italian bread stuffed with delicious goodies such as mozzarella, tomatoes, prosciutto, fresh basil, roasted red peppers, or whatever else makes you happy. Brush with extra virigin olive oil, then press between the hot plates of a pan...
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Panini: Grilled Sandwich Tips and Recipes
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They're popping up everywhere...cafés, bistros, restaurants, gourmet sandwich shops. Panini, the quintessential grilled sandwich, the grilled cheese for the foodie crowd. Now you can make them at home with our recipes and tips
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Sandwiches
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I'm pretty sure that a sandwich is the most versatile of all food categories. Think about the dozens of different sandwiches you alone have made and the thousands still waiting for you to try. The is one food group where if you like something it is bo...
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poutine
Just mention the word sandwich and I am salivating. Posted October 06, 2008 |
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garywgoldstein
I love Ciabatta sandwich, healthy and very delicious. Posted September 19, 2008 |
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juliasofia44
Nice and excellent lens. Posted August 23, 2008 |
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alicesy
Excellent Lens. I like the quality insight you have provided here about Healthy Sandwich Recipes. Keep up the good work. Posted August 01, 2008 |
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Man.. I am salivating looking at these sandwiches at midnight. Great 5* lens. Posted July 26, 2008 |
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