In reality, it was similar to something I was quite familiar with, the pimento cheese sandwich.<\/p>\n
A pimento cheese sandwich has a spread that’s cheese, pimentoes, and mayo, blended together. Cheese and onions utlizes onions instead of pimentoes.<\/p>\n
(Don’t read any disappointment, veiled or not, into that. I grew up eating pimento cheese sandwiches and like them a lot.)<\/p>\n
But the cheese and onions sandwich an interesting platform on which to build.<\/p>\n
There are all sorts of cheeses one can try. (I can hear Pinky singing “Cheeses of the World” in the back of my mind as I type this.) And there are binding agents one can substitute for the mayo for healthier options.<\/p>\n
One of the best mixtures I’ve found is smoked cheddar, diced onions, and vanilla non-fat Greek yogurt. The sweetness of the yogurt is a good counterpoint to the cheddar in the spread and the mustard I spread on the bread as well.<\/p>\n
Then I might add some sliced ham and even tomato slices. And that works.<\/p>\n
The problem is, I don’t remember where I bought the smoked cheddar from — I’ve tried all the grocery stores I shop — which led me to try something completely different.<\/p>\n
Horseradish Cheddar.<\/p>\n
And horseradish goes well with roast beef.<\/p>\n
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And what else goes well with roast beef? That NPR Thanksgiving favorite, Mama Stamberg’s Cranberry Relish<\/a>, which I tried for the first time (and made a lot of, which I still have in my freezer) back in November<\/a>.<\/p>\n So, imagine this.<\/p>\n Cheese and onions spread, made with horseradish cheddar.<\/p>\n A slide of roast beef.<\/p>\n Mama Stamberg’s cranberry relish.<\/p>\n Plus, mustard slathered on the bread.<\/p>\n So, you have all of these things going — roast beef, cheese, onions, horseradish, mustard, cranberries.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, I couldn’t pack this lunch at home and take it to work; the cranberry relish would make the bread soggy long<\/i> before I was ready for lunch. Instead, I made the sandwiches I took to work sans<\/i> relish, put some of the relish in a container, and added the relish to the sandwiches when I was ready for lunch several hours into my work day.<\/p>\n It was still a little goopy, but it worked. It worked quite well. Actually, it was downright awesome<\/i>. It might be pretty far afield of what a British-style cheese & onions sandwich is, but I can’t deny that it tasted great and hit the spot.<\/p>\n As Captain Hikaru Sulu might say, “Oh, my…”<\/p>\n Five stars, will try again. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I may have created the ultimate cheese & onions sandwich! Back in the spring, for nerdy reasons, I began experimenting with the British-style cheese and onions sandwich. There’s a Rutles song about the sandwich, and in my mind I imagined that a cheese and onions was some amazing thing, completely unknown to American shores. InContinue reading “The Ultimate Cheese and Onions Sandwich”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[4635,4615],"class_list":["post-31417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life","tag-cheese-and-onions","tag-cranberry-relish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_20180718_122113134-1200x675.jpg\")
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