Delia's Toasted Sandwiches Recovered from Obscurity!
In which Mike acknowledges his debts...
For those of you who enjoyed "Tuna and Pasta Bake,
Oh My!", here's the original from which I shamelessly lifted the idea. And, it
turns out, some of the phrasing -- though I hadn't even seen it for about three
years when I wrote. Weird, eh? Must be the urbane genius of the original. Note
also my mangling of the original title -- apologies.
This recipe is copyright Tom Witney.
Lesson 1: Scrambled
Toast.
For this simple, yet time
consuming, snack you will need:
one
sandwich toaster (I find that geriatric ones work best for
this
recipe)
4 slices of bread
some of that marvellous low fat olive
spread
fillings of your
choice
The first thing to do is to make
sure that you clean the sandwich
toaster
thoroughly using plenty of detergent.
We don't want any nasty grease
do
we?!
The
next step is to decide on which fillings you want to use.
My
favourites are mozzerella, sun dried
tomatoes, olives, parmesan, fresh
basil leaves,
lime and coriander. (If you're common <how quaint!>
don't
worry. I've heard that mild cheddar and
HP sauce work wonderfully.)
Now we're
ready to start cooking. Take your 4 slices of bread, I
always
make sure I use fresh granary - it gives
a lovely nutty flavour, and
spread thinly with
some low fat olive spread. (Again, the common
people
reading need not fret. Sunblest and
lard work just as well I've
been
told.)
When
the sandwich toaster is good and hot, put in the bread spread
side
down and assemble the fillings. Close the
toaster and leave until the
cheese has melted
and the bread is thoroughly welded into the
toaster.
Taking care to burn yourself
several times, laboriously scrape the bread
and
fillings from the toaster and arrange on a plate using a sharp
knife.
If you do it properly this can take up
to half an hour!
When you've scraped all
you can, you should find yourself with a plate
of
slightly cheesy breadcrumbs and a knackered
sandwich toaster. Delicious!
Leave the toaster
to soak overnight, then attempt to chip the rest of
the
cheese from the cooking surface. Spend a
good hour or two over this.
Then throw the
damned thing away!
Unfortunately this
meal only serves one, but it makes a marvellous
starter
at dinner parties (Common people: you
can stop reading this now and go
back to The
Sun crossword). Make your guests the toast in the usual way
in
individual sandwich toasters. Serve hot and
still in the toaster. Your
guests can
experience the frustration and anger themselves as they try
and
scrape the remains of their dinner from the
awkward corners!
Enjoy! And remember.
The time consuming nature of this dish makes
it
ideal for times when you're really busy.
Like exam term perhaps.
Next week: Delia
shows us how to burn eggs!
Posted: Sun - February 15, 2004 at 09:57 PM