Saturday Super Sandwich – A Review
Are you bored? Lonely?
Do you wish you were a better cook? Do you sometimes get julienning confused with blanching because of a video game where you can befriend anthropomorphic squirrels who live in your neighborhood?
But do you still cook anyway because, darn it, you just love food?
Well. Look no further than this handy guide for the best breakfast sandwich you’ll ever eat at 11pm on a Saturday night.
Step one. Have leftover bread from your turkey sandwiches you bring to work; some cream cheese that you bought for no reason; a box of spinach that was for that salad you forgot to make; eggs because, well, you’re pretty sure they’re healthy; and of course, olive oil (or any other oil, I’m not your dad).
If you don’t like cream cheese, you can use any kind of melty cheese, but like. Why would you (anyway, I suggest parmesan or mozzarella).
Step two. Toast two slices of bread in a pan with olive oil because you don’t own a toaster. Be sure to burn one side of each piece of bread, and only light toast the other side.
Step three. Google how to toast bread in a pan, because you’re like 90% positive you can do it, but you just want to make sure.
Step four. Layer some cream cheese on that toasty toasted bread. Make sure it’s on the more burnt side. Go ahead and put it on both slices, unless you’re a coward. Skip this step if you don’t want cream cheese. Obvs.
Step five. Sautee some spinach. We want this stuff half cooked. Because, honestly, who cares? So, pour some olive oil in a pan, dump some spinach in that you washed and forgot to dry, pour more olive oil on that, throw some pepper on it if you want. If you want to use a real cheese, mix it thoroughly with the spinach now, or forever hold your peace.
Step six. Put the spinach on a paper towel, or on its own plate, and spread it out. It’s gonna be hella wet. Which is fine, just not “put on your bread for three minutes without supervision” fine.
Step seven. Perfectly fry an egg.* Be amazed at how good of a job you’ve done.
Step eight. While the perfectly fried egg is finishing up on the pan, put the spinach onto the bottom slice of bread, yes on top of the cream cheese.
Step nine. Break the yolk on accident after you put it on top of the spinach, you know when you put the other slice of bread on top of it.
Step ten. Eat that mess of a sandwich.
So yeah. I mean. This isn’t anything amazing or fancy. Or anything I invented. It’s practically Eggs Florentine without the parts that are tasty. But still, whatever you do, don’t put ketchup on it.
You can jazz this baby up with some bacon, some sriracha, some more pepper. You could put minced garlic in with the spinach. You could do the “egg in a nest” strategy with the bread and get rid of a layer of cream cheese, I’m not going to do that, but you can.
Happy Monday everyone. My brother is coming up tomorrow! I’ve got this whole week off. So. It’ll be a nice break.
Hope you have a good one!
*= This egg should be over easy. You want the yolk dripping, but it will still taste good if it’s drippings are at a medium. But come on. Are you here to do this thing half-way? Or are you here to make the king of all breakfast sandwiches at 11pm on a Saturday. My strategy for perfectly frying an egg over easy? Get the oil or butter nice and hot, take the heat down after you crack your egg, while it cooks watch the edges of the egg, if it starts to bubble lower the heat. Don’t move it too much, but when the edges are looking firm, get a spoon and scoop up that hot olive oil in the pan and drizzle it on the yolk and any part that’s still translucent. When the edges are browning just a tad, move it a lot more by shaking the pan like you see in those TV shows. Take it out when you think it looks “almost done.”
