Food52 Contest Winner For Your Best Dish Disguised as a Sandwich

Our most up-to-date contest theme “Your Most effective Dish Disguised as a Sandwich” challenged our talented and artistic Meals52 group to just take their beloved dish and transform it into a hand-held food. This was no compact feat but the community was absolutely up to the problem and the entries did not disappoint.

We analyzed and tasted our way by way of a world array of sandwiches and we ended up ready to slender it down to two: an exquisite Shrimp Francese Sandwich featuring a delectable and spicy tomato and scorching cherry pepper bruschetta topping with gooey cheese from Daddy_Chef_DoDoDoDoDoDo’s and a delightfully layered, taste-packed Spicy Salmon “Bento” Bagel Sandwich with Cucumber Salad, a playful choose on the extremely preferred bento box from Joni Goldbach.

Thank you at the time yet again to our neighborhood who solid their votes to assistance us come to a decision on a successful sandwich. The community has spoken and we have a winner, cue the drumroll……

Spicy Smoked Salmon “Bento” Bagel Sandwich with Cucumber Salad

Congratulations Joni, your sandwich was liked by all!! We are fired up to find out a lot more about you and your successful recipe in the Q&A below. We want to congratulate the runner up Daddy_chef_DoDoDoDoDoDo whose Shrimp Francese Sandwich was definitely delicious!

What is actually your least favorite food?

Meat — I’ve in no way enjoyed feeding on it, and I seriously dislike cooking it. The running joke in my family was that my following youthful brother and I ate a full meal concerning us. He would try to eat the meat, and I would try to eat all the things else. I just find meats relatively bland and unappealing compared to the environment of flavors out there as a result of other food items. If I cook dinner one thing meaty for you, think about it a signal that I Really like you.
The noteworthy exception is that I’ve grown into having fun with some fish and shellfish many thanks to some actually fantastic fishmongers, cooks and educators. Now my spouse and I will get a pound of fish to smoke and nibble for lunch throughout the week, or the occasional bag of mussels, branzino, or oysters for a exclusive occasion. 
I could be persuaded to improve my head.

What is the greatest point you’ve got built so much this calendar year?

A single issue that has been so delicious that I’ve been building on repeat this calendar year is ricotta gnudi. They are these balls of pasta that are a bit like gnocchi and ravioli had the most tasty, tender pasta newborn. Generating them is a little bit of a project, but truly large impression for the amount of work. They continue to keep nicely in the freezer to boil up for a quick evening meal when I cannot be bothered to figure out what to make! And I uncovered they are about the great way to use up a surplus of greens and other veggies right before they go terrible. 
So much, the most effective batch has provided tender radish and turnip greens, spinach, parsley, and mushrooms. My mouth is watering just thinking about them topped with a drizzle of olive oil and a shower of Parmesan!

Explain your most spectacular kitchen disaster.

Most of my kitchen disasters are quite foolish problems, but the ones that truly acquire the cake stem from owning plenty of enthusiasm and diving in without having comprehending particularly what I’m finding into. Sometimes an experiment works out truly perfectly, and at times I wind up with an inedible mess, but I normally study a ton.
A single of my first cooking experiments is a quite fantastic illustration. We lived in a neighborhood upcoming to a sugar beet subject. Soon after harvest one particular year, I observed a discarded sugar beet. I’d heard that chocolate was built from cacao and sugar, so I assumed that I could figure out how to “cook” the sugar beet with baking cocoa to make chocolate. I requested my Mom to slice the beet in 50 percent (I wasn’t permitted to use sharp knives however.) and lend me cocoa powder and some baking foil. I took all of these around to my friend’s residence the place we organized the beet halves on the foil, spooned cocoa powder on top rated, and waited for them to bake in the sunshine on the driveway. We waited, and waited, and when nothing at all appeared to improve decided to give our creation a flavor. Yuck!

What is your concept of comfort food?

I’ve been embracing the thought a short while ago that cooking for myself and the people I appreciate can be as, if not far more therapeutic than any just one certain food. It is an location of life exactly where it is rather straightforward to emphasis on receiving more of what I require in my lifetime — meditative tasks when I’m experience disappointed or overwhelmed, possibilities for creativeness when I’m sensation unfulfilled in other regions of lifetime, and a way to feed my potential self by generating items I actually appreciate for the 7 days in advance. Cooking is an spot of everyday living where by I feel I can have some type of manage over the course (and with any luck , the outcome) in a entire world where by so considerably feels out of handle.
I like contemplating about how food planning as an exercising in eliciting a particular temper.
Of study course, a warm cup of coffee or tea helps when time and assets really don’t allow for for additional.

Apron or no apron?

Only when I’m earning something really messy and I try to remember. I’m generally way too chaotic dancing in and out of the kitchen to believe of it. 

What is your favorite food-associated scene in a motion picture?

I love the Whoville feast scenes in the old animated versions of the Grinch — much more for the reminiscences it elicits than anything at all else. I arrive from a massive loved ones wherever Thanksgiving and Christmas have been crucial vacations growing up. We’d spend times cooking up our beloved holiday getaway dishes and get as large, content team of aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents, and often a  handful of buddies. We’d sing just before supper, rest and digest for a whilst, and occur back again for dessert just ahead of The Grinch aired on Television. All those getaway dinners set the bar for me and in the rose-colored glasses of memory are not dissimilar from the WhovIlle feasts.

Who is another person you’d adore to cook for, and why? 

Oh, wow! I truly simply cannot opt for just a single. 
In fantasy, I’d love to host a supper bash with women of all ages who have produced a massive influence in my existence, dwelling and departed — sort of like the Judy Chicago Meal Occasion installation at the Brooklyn Museum, but an true dinner party. It would be be fantastic to be capable to thank them in some small way. The wine would movement and the conversations all around the evening meal desk would be amazing.
In truth, I’m hunting forward to acquiring a possibility to cook for my little nieces. The youngest was born just in advance of the pandemic and the oldest was so young the very last time we all bought collectively and I experienced a chance to cook dinner for them. I can not hold out to whip up a couple goodies to attempt to delight those people tiny sweethearts!