Friday - June 10, 2011

Comfort Food

Internet and telephone very intermittent here today. We had a big thunderstorm come through last night and it downed trees and wires. Down in Mercer County by Princeton it’s much worse; they had to close a number of major roads and that made commuting in and out of Trenton/Philly/Lawrenceville/Princeton area a real pain this morning.

So all I’ve had to deal with is a weak internet and a weaker telephone. Oh, and last night the DVD RW drive on this old computer finally up and died. I messed with it, and cleaned up a whole rabbit hutch full of dust bunnies from inside the PC, but it’s a goner. Not sure if it’s even worth spending $25 to get a new one. And last night we found out that the DVD on our DVR no longer works. Not that we watch DVDs more than a couple times a year, but with the cable out, we wanted to watch something. No go. Not sure it’s worth spending $25 for a new DVD player either. Pretty sure I can get a regular/Blu Ray job for under $50. Heck, I can get an HD DVR with Blu Ray for under $230 without even shopping around.

So instead of getting frustrated over technology letting me down, I made myself something to eat. And I dug about as far back in my past as I can go, and made Hawaiian Sandwiches like my mom used to make us when we were little kids.

What’s a Hawaiian Sandwich? Never knew if she found the recipe, or if she made it up to find something picky kids would eat. But they still taste just as good, and they’re real easy to make.

Start a pan of bacon cooking. 8 or 12 slices will do for 4 sandwiches, with 2 open face sandwiches per serving.

Take several slices of good bread and very lightly toast them. When I was a kid, “good” bread was Arnold Brick Oven White. I seem to remember the Big Yaz - Carl Yastrzemski - being on the label. We didn’t get Wonder Bread. It was spongy crap in Mom’s opinion.

Ok, the bread is now slightly toasted. Put the slices on a plate and spread mayonnaise on the top side. Drain a can of pineapple slices and put a ring in the middle of each slice. Cover the pineapple with a slice of yellow American cheese (we call it syntho-cheese these days but it was almost the only cheese available back then). Cross 2 strips of bacon on top of each slice of cheese.

Eat. Enjoy.

GE stopped making the proper Toast-R-Oven at least 25 years ago. The later models were cheap junk. That little thing made the best toast, always. And Top Brown was the setting for the best Thomas’s English Muffins. Ever. In the entire universe. And the whole thing was perhaps a foot wide by 7 inches tall. Gone, long gone. But not forgotten. Sure, you could pop the slices under the broiler. Or use your gigantic fancy imported Italian combination toaster, small oven, and pizza cooker thing like we have these days. It will work. Mostly. Heck, you could even use pineapple chunks, but the results won’t look cool. And for proper flavor, make sure you get Del Monte pineapple rings in heavy syrup. None of that natural juices nonsense, this is 60s food at it’s best. 3 slices of bacon are better than 2, but 4 per sandwich is too much.
And don’t even think of using Lite mayo. Or that God awful Miracle Whip.

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