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Perfect Pairs: 2-Ingredient Sandwiches

Posted: 09/21/2012 10:34 am

The sandwich is the ultimate exercise in edible gestalt: Great vegetables, cheeses, meats, and breads make, in the aggregate, something so much more wonderful than any one ingredient alone. While there's a time and a place for ten-ingredient Dagwoods and double-decker club sandwiches, there's a particular magic to be found in the very simplest sandwiches. These nine sandwich variations call for just two ingredients each (plus bread, of course, and the occasional grind of pepper); they are, in our opinion, the very pinnacle of lunchtime perfection.

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Sweet, juicy heirloom tomatoes and slices of just-ripe avocado work in perfect harmony no matter what you serve them on, but a slice of seven-grain bread adds a perfect amount of texture and crunch.

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The sandwich is the ultimate exercise in edible gestalt: Great vegetables, cheeses, meats, and breads make, in the aggregate, something so much more wonderful than any one ingredient alone. While ther...
The sandwich is the ultimate exercise in edible gestalt: Great vegetables, cheeses, meats, and breads make, in the aggregate, something so much more wonderful than any one ingredient alone. While ther...
 
 
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09:24 PM on 09/30/2012
the one thing all those sandwiches had in common was great bread.
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02:57 PM on 09/30/2012
...my: those slides went from "Mmm!!" to "Gag!!"
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Iceburn77
the colder the better
04:39 PM on 09/29/2012
Yum! So easy to make these for the kids lunches.
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thetxsndn
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10:02 PM on 09/22/2012
Avacado & bacon on toast.
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02:58 PM on 09/30/2012
...sounds better than bacon and peanutbutter.
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thetxsndn
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04:16 PM on 09/30/2012
It's really yummy. I love avacados anyway lol.
02:55 PM on 09/22/2012
Weirdly, when I was a kid my mom used to make me bacon and cream cheese sandwiches all the time. Sounds bizarre (even as I say it, sounds completely crazy) but it's actually really good...

It's amazing I'm not morbidly obese.
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thetxsndn
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10:00 PM on 09/22/2012
Hey bacon & cream cheese is great stuff :)
10:13 PM on 09/22/2012
Sounds good.
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hjo4
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11:04 AM on 09/22/2012
It sounds interesting I'll give a few a try. Ham and hard boiled egg is interesting as is peanut butter and bacon.
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Iagree
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06:57 AM on 09/22/2012
Hummus and tabouli!
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09:55 PM on 09/21/2012
Fresh tomato and some blue cheese. Yum.
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06:26 PM on 09/22/2012
will Feta work as well?
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11:49 PM on 09/22/2012
Definitely not.

;=)
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edejan
02:38 PM on 09/24/2012
Goat cheese works.
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RedRat
Ignorance is fixable, stupidty is forever
07:18 PM on 09/21/2012
I have got to try the peanut butter and bacon! Never thought about that one.
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wtf is this
It depends.
12:42 AM on 09/22/2012
You must -- that was my favorite sandwich as a kid. For some reason, mom rarely made it.
03:28 PM on 09/25/2012
I think I need more bacon. The peanut butter overpowers it. Tasty though.
04:14 PM on 09/21/2012
Sorry, but when I think of ham & egg sandwiches, it is NOT ham and hard-boiled eggs.

It's ham and fried or scrambled egg. I've never heard of anyone wanting a ham and hard-boiled egg sandwich, and I now doubt the palate of whoever prepared this little slideshow.
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06:25 PM on 09/22/2012
It's ham and fried or scrambled egg

yes. my people are Chinese and you know how we put a couple of fried eggs on top of a bowl of noddles? same with a sandwich... a couple of fried eggs. same idea, different application.
11:52 PM on 09/22/2012
Mmmm, no.

Making a sandwich of ham and HARD BOILED EGG is not at all the "same idea, different application."

I'm Vietnamese and we too know how to put fried eggs on baguettes or on top of some rice, but this "Perfect Pair" being presented here is ham and HARD BOILED EGG.

Simply does not sound right.
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nitza417
06:06 PM on 09/29/2012
Us puertoricans like the white rice fried egg combo... some with ketchup.. me salt and pepper.. LoL We called it the poor man's meal...
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04:07 PM on 09/21/2012
bacon and peanut butter!!! my favorite sandwich of all time!!!