When you mentioned the classic tomato sandwich with mayo from the South (I'm in Bama), it reminded me of my Mother. When I was a kid she died from breast cancer, and when she was in the hospital on chemo, one of the few things that she could think of that she could eat (or wanted to) would be a tomato sandwich. She would bring tomatoes to the hospital, chill them on the AC unit and slice up her own and make sandwiches in the hospital bed.😂 She loved those! Me...not so much.
They have wonderful egg salad in the cafe at our cancer center. My wife asked me to buy some today before my treatment so I wouldn't have to cook this evening. I made a half sandwich for each of us before giving in to nap time and put sliced cucumbers and half a dozen sliced cherry tomatoes on mine. I just woke up and saw this tomato sandwich video and got a laugh out of it. I'm glad she enjoyed herself even in the hospital!
When our heirloom tomatoes are ready at the end of the summer, I have tomato sandwiches almost every morning. We have Beefmaster this year, can't wait!
Thank you for the recipe✨ Tomato sandwiches are one of my favorites! 🍅 Sprinkling some smoked paprika adds some depth to the flavors as well. I’m going to check out the other tomato sandwich recipes you’ve posted~ 🍅 🥪 Be well, stay kind and blessings to all~
The building of the Milwaukee Gas Light Company is still downtown. It has a light at the top that looks like a blue flame. I think it's a museum now {I'll have to investigate}. Their Christmas cookie book was very popular I hear.
Purple Cherokee tomato instead of what you get from local Grocery. The black pepper is a key to the wonderfulness of the sammich. Still like Roman Meal bread over your whitebread. The taste of the Cherokee Purple, or it's variants, will make a HUGE difference in the sammich.Fresh thyme is always better than dried, but you use what's ya gots.
I’m a French baker (in Tennessee) and one the bakers that works with me brought me a ton of tomatoes from her garden, so I brought home a baguette I made today. About to go make one now.
I grew up eating tomato sandwiches and still do. That’s a very basic version. To plus up you can use Ranch dressing instead of mayo and add any or all of the following: thin slices of cucumbers, bell pepper and/or onion with black pepper, maybe garlic powder and a touch of mustard.
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Cutting bread rounds is a great idea! I’ve been cutting the tomatoes to fit the bread all these years 🙄 That absolutely could be lunch, plussed up with a slice of cheddar. Of course you’d need two or three of them. The black pepper + thyme is perfect with tomato.
My favorite summer sandwich is a thick slice of summer tomato that I put salt, pepper, sugar and cream of tarter on. Put it between two slices of bread spread lightly with Duke's mayo, and you're in heaven.
@@DeborahMaufer It has very unique taste on hot dogs, but mixed with tomato, mayo and basil it has a very herby umami flavor. Also Rye bread is ideal for this sandwich.
Isn't really the only difference between this tomato sandwich and others is just the circular cut of the bread? Break it down it's still basically mayo, salt and pepper. We've seen that before right? Does the added shredded onion make that much difference?
@@DeborahMaufer I find a lot of times, and my parents did this to me when I was a kid, if there were foods I didn't, different vegetables, they would hide it in different meals to see if I noticed. I rarely did, lol. Guess my tongue isn't very refined
I think Milwaukee is trying to gas light me. Pepper always, pepper often. Fresh tomato in the summer is a pleasure, at least the ones that grow in Maryland, salt, pepper, mayo, hold the onions and leave that bread alone.
I grew up in actual poverty in the 1960s and a tomato sandwich was an easy and cheap stomach filler for us kids. None of this wasteful cutting the bread to be the same shape as the tomato, sliced tomatos in bread and butter. We also had banana sandwiches and pickled beetroot sandwiches, also flipping delicious and I still eat them now.