i'm always a fan of a good reuben but for outside the traditional sandwiches you see offered-we recreate a panini we used to get at a small local grocery chain we lived near. made with focciacia, sliced lamb, red onion, salad greens and dressed with mayo and kalamata olive tempinande.
funny this thread came up cuz just yesterday i bought a couple items to make these this week!
I love a good French dip. Nothing fancy, just good bread, roast beef (the rarer the better), some cheese, and au jus. No horseradish or anything like that.
A local restaurant makes a Rueben with red cabbage instead of sauerkraut. I'm not a sauerkraut fan, so I like this take on it better.
This is probably regional: hot, thin-sliced pastrami on rye, topped with a scoop of cole slaw and a generous dollop of Russian dressing. (I like to dip mine in extra Russian dressing on the side.)
I never thought of sandwiches as something that required/needed a recipe to be honest-
With that being said, one of my favorites is one I put together the day or two after Thanksgiving.
Leftover yeast roll or fresh bread
turkey
onion dip
stuffing
the crispy onions scraped off the top of the nasty green bean casserole
After we balked at the $32 lobster rolls at a local place, my son bought imitation crab and I made seafood salad at home. Costco 12pk rolls, 3lb crab stuff, lettuce, shallots, celery, lemon, mayo, hotsauce… Toasted the rolls with tiny bit of butter and voila! We made 8 big sandwiches only using 2/3rds of what cost $20. Under $2 each. Yum yum was good.
Banh mi: Non-chewy french bread (actually, I've been using scooped out toasted bolillo rolls), sriracha mayo, Vietnamese quick pickles, cucumber slices, cilantro, and a meat filling (usually make either lemongrass or char sui chicken or pork), maggi sauce or hoisin sauce. So delicious and if you have the quick pickles made and on hand, it's a really quick dinner.