Last Saturday, while we were trying to come up with something to have for dinner, Nick hit on an old favorite of ours: Monte Cristos! I probably haven’t had one since college, which is… a while. For the uninitiated, a Monte Cristo is a deep fried double-decker ham and cheese sandwich (sometimes there’s turkey in there, too) which is deep fried and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Yum! Not being lucky enough to own a deep-fryer (yet), I remembered making them in college with slices of French toast. And we were off to the grocery store to get sandwich fixings.
On the way there, (before biking through the protest) we tried to think of an appropriate side dish. Coleslaw sounded good, but our favorite coleslaw recipe contains buttermilk, an ingredient I have as yet been unable to find. I decided that plain yogurt might make an acceptable substitute. For some reason, regular white and red cabbages are horrendously expensive here (we’re talking two to three euros a head!) so we ended up taking home the cheaper French green cabbage. How different can it be?
<Bleep> this <bleep> piece of <bleep> website! <Bleep> thing just erased half my <bleep> post! To sum up the rest of my heartbreakingly eloquent prose, French cabbage + carrots + yogurt + tarragon vinegar + celery salt = damn fine (albeit French-y) coleslaw.
Sandwiches? Brioche French toast + Jambon de Paris + Emmenthal = gooey sweet and salty deliciousness.
Want to try this at home? Here’s my recipe for the coleslaw (I think you can figure out the sandwiches on your own):
RSS - Posts
Ab
Ac
