South American Sandwiches (of Northeastern Minnesota)
This mixture is intensely savory–between the tomatoes and the mushrooms and the many meats and vegetables it has about every kind of umami-producing substance in abundance.
This mixture is intensely savory–between the tomatoes and the mushrooms and the many meats and vegetables it has about every kind of umami-producing substance in abundance.
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Toasting does a really nice job of bringing the sandwich together, the cheese melting into the garlicky porkfat of the salami, mingling the brine of the pepperoncinis and the pungent mustard into the crumb of the bread.
I will be taking my cue from Tarantino and talking thematically rather than chronologically. To paraphrase the wisdom of Grease, some of these items just go together, like shoo-bop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom.
It was soft, it tasted like cheese, the mouthfeel was cheeselike, it had the sharpness of cheddar punctuated by the savory Coney sauce and the pungent bites of pickle, onion, and mustard. It shouldn’t have worked but it did.
Combining the sausage and the tomato sauce deadened the unique but subtle flavors of each a bit, but the combined flavor was good, and the butter kept the sandwich from being too dry. A solid combination, but nothing I’d rush to repeat.
The sharp mustard has a bit more bite than a typical yellow American mustard but between it and the sliced onion there’s enough of a pungent, acidic punch to cut through the richness of butter and a thick slice of cheese.
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