Okay, this is a recipe I came out with during the weekend. On Saturday I had some friends over for dinner, I was expecting them around 9pm. Thing was, it was already 8 and I had no idea what I was gonna feed them. All in all I was expecting 1o people, so it had to be a lot of food. As I was thinking, the idea of sandwiches crossed my mind, however, I thought, they can always fix themselves a sandwich at home... so they had to be sandwiches with a twist. I love Italian so the first ingredients that came to mind were baguettes and salami. HEB is 2 minutes away from my house and they sell delicious salami and fresh baguettes, sooo tah dah!! I set out for HEB and these are the things I bought:
INGREDIENTS-
1/2 pound hard salami (sliced, #1 cut or something like that... I just ask the guys there to cut it at 1)
1/2 muenster cheese (sliced, same cut)
3 Italian baguettes (the thin, long ones... not the ones they sell in pairs in plastic bags!!!)
pesto with sun dried tomato (any kind will do but careful not to buy only the sun dried tomato pasta.. make sure it's green with a little red!, also don't go for the ones in the 'cooking connections' area if you are looking to save money, rather, look for pesto in the 'international' aisle...)
mayo
turkey ham (thin slices)
1 large can black olives (no seeds!)
DIRECTIONS-
Preheat oven to 250
Cut the baguette kind of like how the guys at Subway do, I also removed some of the soft bread from the inside so more of the ingredients would fit in. Cut up the olives in half, set aside.
Spread mayo on lower half, then spread about a teaspoon of pesto on top side. Cut muenster cheese slices in half (triangles), cut salami circles in half also, get the ham out and fill up your baguette. Cheese first, salami after, ham on top.
After the filling is done, press top half of baguettes over lower half to pack it all in. Cut in two to three pieces and place sandwiches on ungreased trays. Place them in the oven and let bake for about 1o minutes.
After you get them out, spread yet another tablespoon of pesto over the ham. Then, spread the olive halves over the ham. Finally, cut into 3 1/2 to 4 inches pieces and enjoy!
Note: you might want to add another baguette depending on how many people you're serving these to, or how much they eat! with these quantities, each person got about 2 pieces.
Note 2: you can find 'Helga the Salami Fairy' here:
http://cartoongoddess.wordpress.com/?s=helga+the+salami+fairy
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