On hot and humid days, cooking in the kitchen is the last thing you want to do. Sandwiches are a convenient option for summer lunches, but deli meat and cheese can be quite costly. When I got frustrated at the lack of nutrition and high price of deli meat, I asked myself, ‘what kind of sandwiches did my grandma serve?’ I knew that she rarely if ever bought deli meat and cheese. I imagined myself, feet dangling under her table, glass of cold mint tea in front of me and a sandwich with a thick slice of her homemade bread on the plate before me. On that thick slice of bread was a slice of cold beef from
last night’s dinner, or a fried egg, or if the day was a bit more special, we may have had chicken or ham salad or in tomato season, egg salad with a thick slice of a garden tomato.
Following are the recipes I use to keep the sandwich options varied in our home all
summer long!
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Hi Ruth Ann,
I cannot begin to express how I have enjoyed every single video of yours that I’ve watched so far. The sandwich recipe ideas are fantastic. I’m trying to be more creative in preparing lunch for my husband and me. All of the recipes you have are lovely. I’m wondering if you have your naan bread recipe printed in your website. I looked for it, but could not locate it. If it is available for download, please let me know where I can find it. This morning, I watched your cinnamon roll recipe and I’m definitely going to bake some in the next week or so. Thank you dear, for all of your wonderful common sense suggestions and thank you for being such a wonderful example of how to be a great mother. I hope young women who watch you emulate your great example. God bless you and your beautiful family.
Beautiful nutritious sandwiches! So much better than store bought sandwich fillings! Why? Because we know what is in them, and what is not in them!
Thank you for sharing these! I watched the video, but I appreciate the recipes online. It was easy to import them into my recipe app that way. Or they’d be easy to print.
I look forward to trying these out! We do make BLTs usually in summer, only once my tomatoes are ready, but sometimes if I find some early ones at a farm market.
Chicken salad is a way I use my home canned chicken, and so I do have a mix of both white & dark meat. But I like it that way because of moisture. I look forward to trying out your recipe.
I have my husbands grandmothers meat grinder, but have never used it. I may try it out with ham for the ham salad sometime. I’ve never made ham salad.
My husband and I both grew up with miracle whip instead of mayo. But we do enjoy egg or chicken salad from restaurants that’s made with mayo. So I’ve begun using half mayo, half store bought Miracle Whip in my egg & chicken salads.
In your video, when you were making the egg salad, when you mentioned the sugar, my first reaction was “eauw”. But after I thought about it, I realized it might make it more Miracle whip flavor that way. So I’ll try it. I’ve been making our mayo from fresh eggs and it’s been great! But its primarily used in salads, vs sandwiches.
I still haven’t tried turning my homemade mayo into Miracle Whip. I do have a recipe, but just haven’t gotten around to trying it yet.
Thank you for all you share, both on video, and here on your website! You are an inspiration! May God continue to bless you & your family!
I grew up on our family farm eating these sandwiches. It brought back fond memories!
Thank you for these recipes! I don’t like lunch meat sandwiches and am excited to make these.
Anxious to try these and see different taste from mine. You did not add the recipe for naan? Bread. Would really like to have it please. My husband and i watch you almost daily together!
Thanks Ruth Anne for the great recipes. I look forward to trying them out and saving some money.
Hello from Kansas. We have many things in common gardening, farm animals, and cooking wise. Like making bread or cooking frozen meat falling off the bone tender and cooking the turkey, chicken etc bones and skin etc for broth.
I am much older than you. I greatly enjoy all your cooking recipes that you have an excellent way of teaching. There is always something new to learn. Currently I am looking at making my own Mayo so I can control the sodium.
I wish you many more years of being able to share your many talents.