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Lunch!
So I got a new bento book this weekend, and it had an interesting idea. (Actually, I'm not sure if the idea came from that book or one of the others I pulled out when I was making my shopping list.)
The idea was sandwich sushi - a sandwich made to look like a sushi roll. I've made wraps before, and this is using regular bread smushed flat as the wrap instead of a tortilla-type thing. I've even made them before using regular bread smushed flat, but they always were messy and unwrapped themselves.
The one brilliant idea the book supplied that I'd enver thought of was to cut all the ingredients into thin strips, as you do with sushi roll ingredients, before wrapping. XD
Images crappy because they're taken with my iPhone:
And from the side, so you can see I cut them on the bias. :) There's plastic wrap around them - you assemble the sandwich on top of the plastic and use it to roll them up and keep them rolled. Cut through it if you want or need to, and pack it with the wrap around it to keep it together.
The other side of the box contains baby carrots, a mini Scotch egg made with sausage and a quail egg*, and grapes on the bottom layer.
* Found a can of hard-boiled quail eggs at my local Central Markup. They're just like regular eggs, only wee.
The idea was sandwich sushi - a sandwich made to look like a sushi roll. I've made wraps before, and this is using regular bread smushed flat as the wrap instead of a tortilla-type thing. I've even made them before using regular bread smushed flat, but they always were messy and unwrapped themselves.
The one brilliant idea the book supplied that I'd enver thought of was to cut all the ingredients into thin strips, as you do with sushi roll ingredients, before wrapping. XD
Images crappy because they're taken with my iPhone:
And from the side, so you can see I cut them on the bias. :) There's plastic wrap around them - you assemble the sandwich on top of the plastic and use it to roll them up and keep them rolled. Cut through it if you want or need to, and pack it with the wrap around it to keep it together.
The other side of the box contains baby carrots, a mini Scotch egg made with sausage and a quail egg*, and grapes on the bottom layer.
* Found a can of hard-boiled quail eggs at my local Central Markup. They're just like regular eggs, only wee.
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The sandwiches look very nice---do you think they'd hold together with a toothpick? Although, with the plastic, conceivably (with some ingredients) you can prep several days' worth at a time and take them out of the fridge and slice as needed.
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I think how well the sandwiches hold together might depend on the bread, and how much filling is in it. If you spear it with enough toothpicks, it might hold together, or cut it in more small rounds and spear each of them with one.
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The sammich sushis look like minis of the wraps I sometimes pack for The Young Lady's lunch. Therefore I wonder whether they could be wrapped in wax paper and sliced, then tucked in tightly enough so that the paper doesn't unwrap (with her full-sized ones, cutting the roll in half and putting the halves next to each other in a standard sandwich bag is tight enough to keep the ends tucked). I use a flour tortilla as the outside part.
(Wax paper doesn't stick to itself ... which is both an advantage and a disadvantage.)
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