Whoever called it "just a sandwich"?
Recognise the symptoms: you walk around the kitchen, open the fridge, close the fridge, open the cupboard, close the cupboard, open the bread bin, close the bread bin. Don’t open the biscuit tin – you are only going to regret it later!
Condition: you are hungry! Maybe not that much but enough to lose concentration and wish for a magic wand to transform your sticky white bread and the plastic yellow cheese into an appetising sandwich.
Eat well NOW and you’ll forget all about your stomach till the evening!
There are 2 rules to follow for the perfect sandwich:
Rule number 1: make it quick and VERY tasty
Rule number 2: never forget rule number 1.
Here are some suggestions to change your snacks and sandwiches forever:
Choose interesting, tasty breads: you can buy a French baguette, some Pitta, healthy rye bread or a naan (why use it only for curries?) or you can try and make some wonderful nutty fruity bread: you’ll feel ever so virtuous!
Leave out margarine or butter: they’re fattening and summer is too close to put on weight now – instead brush your bread lightly with olive oil and a bit of garlic (perfect for heart, arteries etc. – who cares what others think when they get too close!)
Use a variety of fillings: try chickpeas, haricot beans, Parma ham, sardines paté or tuna fish.
Be creative with your greens: try a sliced avocado, some diced green or red pepper, sprinkle with olive oil, salt, pepper and a squeeze of lemon…unbelievable! Even better with rocket added to it: the sweetness of the avocado and the bitterness of the rocket are a match made in heaven!
Add interesting bits: capers, artichokes hearts, olives, or anchovies, or anything else you fancy.
Artfully arrange your chosen ingredients on a small plate – it’ll look such a lot – and savour it slowly: eating a good snack in quiet is one of life’s little pleasures; take your time over it.
© Cristina Adams
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Warning: this recipe contains nuts
Preparation: 10 min plus resting: 2 hours
Cooking 30-35 min
This is a bread recipe that’ll satisfy the most exacting appetites and it’ll make you feel sooo good! Make it in the evening, knead it to relieve tension and leave it to grow while you read the paper!
Ingredients
500 gr.bread flour (you can use 250 gr. white and 250 gr. wholemeal or 500 gr. granary, whatever you prefer)
1 handful of raisins
1 tbsp mixed nuts
1 tbsp almonds
1 tbsp sunflower seeds
250 ml water
30 gr. butter/ (dairy free) margarine
1 sachet of dry yeast
Method:
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and knead the pastry for 5 or 10 min.
- Leave to rest for a couple of hours
- Pre heat the oven at 250 degrees
- Grease a large baking tin
- Knead the pastry again and arrange in the baking tin
- You can leave it to rise for another half an hour, if you have the time
- Pop in the oven and cook for 30-35 min or until golden on top.
- Eat hot or cold - Yum!
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| Cristina’s favourite sandwich |
Preparation time: 5 min.
Shopping list
A piece of baguette (size depending on appetite!)
1/2 Avocado
A bunch of pre-washed rocket
1 tomato
3 leaves of parsley
Some de-seeded black olives
1 clove of garlic
A few drops of olive oil
½ a lemon (to squeeze)
Pepper
In need of protein? Add a couple of anchovies, a boiled egg, some tuna fish or a sardine.
Method:
- Open up the baguette and rub it with the clove of garlic
- Peel and slice the ½ avocado and arrange
- Wash and chop the tomato and fit on the avocado
- Add the rocket, un-cut basil leaves and olives
- Drizzle a tiny amount of olive oil
- Squeeze the lemon – just a bit
- Grind some fresh pepper on it all
- Close the baguette
- Close your eyes and bite.
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