This Morning

The Mexican Toastie (2nd Variation)

The mexican toastie was conceived as part of a three act casual toast off.

For those who know me well, well, they would agree with others who know me well, on the true fact that I'm no stranger to making toasties. In fact, I make them all the time and I just finished one previous to this maiden blog post. What I am getting at is I am passionate about toasties.

My process and technique and over all construction methods come from my two years experience making jaffle pies, a greasy time of my life, and although I was earning minimum wage I was rich with the love of jaffles. No doubt the innovation behind (or should I say within) the toasties I create come from my hobbies, renovations and art.

There's some background but I will press on, if you catch my drift, to the matter of The Mexican Toastie (2nd var.)

I bought cheese on Monday with the intentions of getting back into toasties after a couple of months out of the game. I also bought organic yeast free rye bread and SPC tinned spaghetti. First toastie of the week consisted of these three items (I'd only intended to create a cheesy tinned spaghetti toastie) but as is the style of a woman who likes to eat hot things, I always add a bit of chilli to everything!

The night previous a friend of mine gave me a bottle of habanero sauce from the American wholesalers, which I was desperate to use, so I did a dalmatian effect application of the sauce to the bread. My housemate had some coriander, and next thing you know The Mexican Toastie is born.

I felt the first toastie could've done with more habanero and coriander, so I upsized the flavour on the second toastie.

Heaven in a toastie!

The photo documentation below is of the 2nd variation, which took place in my kitchen earlier today. I'd bought shaved ham at the markets and I had a few cherry tomatoes to make use of, so I made them the feature of this delicious toastie. I attempted to call upon some jalapenos I had in a jar in the fridge, but there were maggots in the jar so I didn't. I sprinkled a few tinned spaghetti strings on top of the ham to put things right and there was a dense layer of coriander on top of the quarter cut cherry tomatoes, and then cheese either side of the habanero smeared bread.

I felt that although the 2nd variation was both a flavour sensation and a delight to digest, there was something at fault between the lines of bread. You guessed it. The shaved ham was an unwelcome guest at this fiesta. Lesson learnt? Absolutely. There is a time and a place for shaved ham but this weren't it. It belongs in The Hawaiian Toastie (which I will enlighten you with in a future post) and has no business in this toasted sandwich. But seriously it was heaven anyway, I'm just searching for the best, trying to understand myself and the world around me, and fulfill an appetite along the way.

I'll toast to that!