Sandwich... I Miss You So Dearly...

So the other day, I made myself a sandwich. I have been doing my self-introduction again and again for the past month or so... and my students ask me... "What is your favorite food?" I use some gestures, motion a chopstick picking up some long noodles and make a slurping noise, and tell them my favorite JAPANESE food is ramen. The students go crazy and make comments like "WOW! Me too!" or "WOW! He can be Japanese if he wants to!" or "WOW! That was a pretty awesome slurping sound he made!" Oh the funniest things kids say these days...
Anyhow, I then mention my favorite food in America is a sandwich. More like a SUBWAY sandwich. I am a big fan of 5 dollar foot longs, the 900yen foot long Japanese SUBWAY sandwiches is simply not the same. haha. Same as small Japanese triangle sandwiches that usually have three kinds of filling. Japanese sandwiches are delicious, but most bakery make egg salad sandwich or ham and lettuce sandwich or a veggie sandwich. They are other kinds like katsu sandwich, tuna salad sandwich, and etc, but most places I have been to have the three I mentioned. After thinking about small variety and size of sandwiches and talking about SUBWAY sandwiches with my students... I was determined to make one for myself.

Now here's the thing... my goal was to make a sub sandwich... but I failed in terms of finding a long bread aka sub sandwich bread. So I ended up using Japanese version of brown/unpolished rice bread aka 玄米 (げんまい) bread. For the sandwich meat, I grilled some chicken with a garlic salt, pepper, lemon pepper, red pepper, and herb seasoning. I sliced up some tomatoes and red onions, and I prepared some leaves of red leaf lettuce. For the spread, I used melted blue cheese on one side and spread the other side with some fresh avocado.

The sandwich was not a SUBWAY sandwich, but it did the trick. It was full of flavor and mouth-watering delicious. The avocado was expensive, but it did the trick in giving a creamy texture and flavor. Nature's butter is the best. =) Speaking of avocado... I started this new craving for avocado dishes... it's gonna be fun, exciting, and delicious... but I'll write more about that in another blog to come. But anyhow, grilled chicken sandwich.... it was awesome and it just simply made me miss a good old American sandwich... Haaaa... Sandwich... I miss you so dearly... haha