Back to Basics/Lazy Man's Sandwich

Over the course of the past few weeks, and throughout the course of my sandwich making experimentation, I have challenged myself to make sandwich concoctions that I had never expected, never thought of, or had just never tried before. I used this exercise as more of a way of broadening my sandwich landscape, a way of thinking outside the lunch-time box. To say I have been successful up to this point would be a drastic under-shot.

So why, I found myself asking, am I reverting back to a solid go-to sandwich for this week? (That was both a hypothetical question, and also an internal question) I'm not sure there is an answer to the question, but the fact remained that the sandwich of the week this time around was awesomely uninspiring, uncreative, and unimpressive.

Not only did I create a sandwich that I knew for a fact I would like, but I actually directly ripped off a standard Wegman's sub, which I'm a common purchaser of. I took a baguette, threw in some roast beef, swiss cheese, roasted red peppers and spinach, and touched it off with a little chipotle mayo. I found myself disliking this sandwich mainly because of how easy it was to make. It's almost like how you always feel better when you work out. It's not that you actually enjoyed the act of working out, but you feel better about yourself. This sandwich was the equivalent of blowing off running a 5K and instead ordering a pizza. While it ended up as a pretty tasty lunch, I'm almost embarrassed at the fact that I made it this week.

Truth be told, however, this was a quite tasty sandwich. Although the roasted red peppers were canned, and I think had actually gone bad a bit ago, and the chipotle mayo wasn't as solid an addition to the sandwich as I had hoped it would be, this sandwich gets an 8.0/10 for me. With a few tweaks (toasting the baguette, maybe some oil instead of mayo, possibly replacing the roast beef with prosciutto, remaking the whole thing, essentially) this could be the best sandwich ever. With Easter coming up this weekend, my ambition may be just as weak this coming week, we'll see what happens -- I'm yet to be inspired for next week's sandwich.