Shredded Beef and Baked Beans Sandwich

After a brief sabbatical involving food poisoning, I’m back with a new sandwich. This isn’t as big as some I have made, but there is more to extreme sandwiches than just the size. This one had a good flavor, the cheese was very strong and the bread was tasty.

The Ingredients:

• Two slices of Marzetti New York Brand Texas Toast (from Ohio)
• About 6oz. of Boneless beef ribs, cooked in a crock pot then shredded in a griddle with Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ Sauce
• Some thin slices of Tillamook Vintage White Extra Sharp Cheddar melted on top
• Shredded Iceberg Lettuce
• A healthy scoop of Bush’s Homestyle Baked Beans

Carne Asada Fry Bread Sandwich

Man, this sandwich was the most involved creation yet! Home made fry bread, home made guacamole, home made carne asada marinade, home made chili. It took me about a month to learn how to make all these things decently. The Fry Bread was very good, but I can’t give out the recipe quite yet, because it’s not mine to give. I guess you could call it Grand Coulee Fry Bread.

The Ingredients (From bottom to top):

• Large piece of Fry Bread
• Thick spread of Home made Guacamole
• Two large dollops of sour cream
• Marinated beef bottom round roast, Carne Asada Style (Using Tyler Florence’s Mojo recipe)
• Home made Beef Chili With Kidney Beans (Using recipe from America’s Test Kitchen)
• Shredded 4 Cheese Mexican Cheese blend (Monterey Jack, Cheddar, Queso Quesadilla, and Asadero Cheddar)
• Shredded Lettuce
• Another dollop of sour cream
• Reser’s Baja Cafe Mild Salsa

Ugly Grilled Leftover Sandwich

I decided to clean out my fridge a bit today and found various meats and toppings. Not enough to make a full blown extreme sandwich, but if I combined them together I could make something interesting on the fly. The results was an ugly, mean sandwich that was very tasty.

The Ingredients:

• Sliced turkey breast with pepper.
• Two slices of deli roast beef loaf
• Chunks of a breast from a rotisserie chicken with paprika
• One slice of cheap deli ham loaf
• A slice of onion grilled in a little butter with a clove of diced garlic
• Some Tilamook shredded cheddar cheese
• Two slices of whole wheat bread, buttered
• A little mayo

Bacon Chili Cheese Quesadilla Burger

Another guest sandwich from a Nintendo World Report friend, BlackNMild2k1. I really need to cook this one for myself!

Updated with additional pictures:

• Bacon crumbled into some Chili w/ beans
• Burger seasoned* and wrapped in foil before cooking (it’s a steam broiled stove top cooked burger)
• 2 cheeses (American or Cheddar & Mozzarella)
• Giant tortilla with a thin layer of mayo (which helped hold the tortilla shut)

wrap everything in the toasted tortilla and grill in the skillet till browned and cheese is melted.

*burger seasonings: Grilled Steak Seasoning, Chili Powder, Salt, Pepper & minced onions.

The Duster

I’m introducing a new category here at Extreme Sandwiches, The Extreme Guest Sandwich. People who know of my sandwich making ways sometimes share their own creations with me. So here we go!

The Duster consists of:

Two hamburger patties seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder and Honey Chipolte BBQ sauce.

Top with a little mayonnaisse, jalapenos, and two slices of cheddar cheese.

Dustin likes his food spicy!

Ham and Turkey Ciabatta

Spring is just around the corner here in Spokane (not like winter was ever really here this year) and I decided to a fresh new sandwich. No particular theme to this sandwich but the sum is definitely greater than the parts.I learned that cibatta is an excellent bread for big sloppy extreme sandwiches due to its tensile strength. I also learned that Muenster cheese is hard to slice evenly, but totally worth it due to its awesome melt factor and slightly pungent taste. The French Onion dip was inspired by instructions at The Turkey Sandwich Report

The Ingredients:

• 1 loaf of ciabatta bread, lightly toasted with butter and fresh ground black pepper
• 1 7.5 oz. container of Nalley French Onion Dip
• 1 turkey breast, sliced. NOT TURKEY LOAF LUNCHMEAT
• About 1 pound of Deli sliced ham made at Egger’s Meats (best ham in town)
• A hunk of sliced Muenster cheese from Safeway melted over the top under a broiler
• Spinach leaves

Chili Cheese Dog Burger

Chili may be second greatest condiment ever, second only to bacon. Combine it with lots of cheese and it is near perfection. I decided to make another sloppy sandwich, but it was delicious. Seriously, I had to go wash my hands twice while eating this thing.

The Ingredients:

• 1 potato hamburger bun
• half pound lean ground chuck, made into a smash burger
• A slice of cheddar cheese
• 1 can of Stagg Country Brand Chili
• 1 hot dog bun
• 1 Hebrew National beef frank. (my favorite hot dog)
• about six ounces of shredded Tilamook Cheddar
• half a red onion, diced thick.

Garnished with some oven baked crinkle cut fries, seasoned with paprika.

BBQ Turkey Roll

I decided to do a Extreme Spontaneity Sandwich! while at my parent’s house for Christmas. Not a giant sandwich, but it was tasty. My sister took the pictures with her camera phone. Leftovers, a rogue burner on my parent’s stove, and cracker dip conspired for the BBQ turkey roll.

The Ingredients:

- Leftover turkey breast, sauteed in olive oil and garlic, then cooked with Sweet Baby Ray’s BBQ sauce.

- Leftover wheat dinner roll

- Safeway Select Artichoke/Jalapeno cracker dip.

The cracker dip made an excellent condiment that contrasted nicely with the BBQ turkey.

Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich

I have been planning this sandwich for quite some time. The premise is simple: Take some of my favorite parts of the previous days meal and make a sandwich out of the mess. The result is soggy, starchy awesome. To qualify, all my sandwiches have to be able to be held like a sandwich while I take a bite. This one was a bit tricky, but it passed.

I re-heated the turkey in a lightly greased pan with lots of pepper until it was a bit browned. I used the same pan to toast the sourdough slices so they could stand up to the gravy.

The Layers (from the bottom up):

• Toasted sourdough
• Dad’s home made turkey gravy
• Turkey Breast
• Mashed potatoes
• Dad’s home made turkey gravy
• Turkey Breast
• Sweet potatoes and yams
• Turkey Breast
• Dad’s home made turkey gravy
• Stuffing
• Dad’s home made turkey gravy
• Toasted sourdough

Double Cheese Smash Burger

Normally I wouldn’t be eating so unhealthy, (don’t worry oatmeal and lot’s of exercise in the future) but as you know, I’m using up those hoagie rolls from Fred Meyers! I was recently reading about the various types of hamburgers there are and I came across a winner. It’s called the smash burger and it betrays what I thought was the golden rule: touch the burger as little as possible once it hits the pan. The reason for this is you don’t want to poke it and let all the juices run out, right? Well hang onto your hats. Extreme Spontaneity Sandwich!

After reading about the smash burger I looked around and found a good guide on how to make them. Check out how to do it at the Paupered Chef: http://thepauperedchef.com/2008/12/the-smash-technique-and-skinny-burger-perfection.html

Update: I didn’t like the picture I had of my smash burger, so here is a pic that better illustrates the crusty goodness

The Ingredients:
- Leftover kaiser roll
- Two quarter pound smashed burger patties
- Two slices of cheddar cheese
- Ketchup

What makes this sandwich extreme? The smash technique. Trust me on this.