Recipe - Sandwich Log

White bread loaf (un cut or sliced up );
with crust cut off, of
course
Egg salad; use your favorite
recipe, mix in some
powdered chile
Ham salad (kind of like
deviled ham); use your
favorite recipe, chop up
some Jalapeños in it
4 lg Cherry tomatoes; cut in
half, and scoop out the
inside
8 Hard boiled; peeled quail
eggs
Cream cheese
Mayonnaise

OK, so here I am again, riding on a Shinkansen, going through email. Last
night, I saw a Japanese TV show which demonstrated a recipe for a sandwich
log. It has nothing to do with chiles, but I knew that the list would love
it. Of course, we can slice up a Serrano and toss it in, just to make it
legal.

Cut the loaf of bread in slices, the long way, so that you make long
rectangles about 12" long, 6" wide, and 1/2" thick. You will need 4 or 6
slices, depending on how big you want to make the log.

Spread one slice with ham salad, and roll it up the long way, making a roll
6" wide. Spread another slice with egg salad, and roll it around the first
roll. If you want, wrap one more eggsalad slice around this. Repeat the
whole process to make a second roll. Then, butt these next to each other to
make one long "log." Wrap them in Saran Wrap (TM!) and chill until they are
firm.

Spread one normal slice of bread (crusts removed, mochiron!) with egg
salad, and roll it into a small log. Cut off 1/4" from each end (to make
flat, smooth ends), and then cut it in half, at an angle. (=/=) Chill.

Mix cream cheese with mayonnaise to make a smooth, thick cream.

Take out the chilled log, and place it onto the dish to be used for
serving. Spread it thickly with the cream cheese mixture. Place the two
small logs on top, with the slanted ends facing up, so that they look like
broken branches sticking out of the log. Spread the cream cheese over them
as well. Leave the ends of the branches (with the rolled "rings") visible.
Then, use a fork to texture the cream with long scores to look like
textured bark.

Stuff a little egg salad into the shelledout tomatoes. Then stick in a
boiled quail egg to that it sticks halfway out of the tomato. Put small
dots of the cream cheese mixture on the red caps to make small white spots.
You have just made little mushrooms. Place these around and on top of the
log.

Garnish with a little parsley to look like moss.

Try not to laugh.

Serve it to children by cutting slices of the log.

scott@I can't believe that I took the time to write this.

Posted to CHILEHEADS DIGEST V4 #231 by Scott Ashkenaz
scott.ashkenaz@klatencor.com on Dec 11, 1997