I made this sandwich – one of my husband’s FAVORITE sandwiches! – for the little neighbor girls when I was watching them for a few hours last week. I wasn’t sure they would appreciate the habanero, but apparently they’ve been raised right, because both little girls loved it! They called me on the phone that night and thanked me for the “corny sammich.” We liked their name for Tim’s sandwich so much, that’s what we call it now. Yes, people do giggle, but after they taste the corny sammich, they’ll be asking for one, too.
Ingredients:
Several slices of corned beef, fairly thin (unless you prefer it thick.)
Kaiser rolls – one for each sammich
Swiss cheese – two slices per sammich
Mandarin Orange Habanero Pepper Jelly
What To Do:
Spread the pepper jelly on both slices of bread and stack the other ingredients according to your taste. Sometimes, my husband is in the mood for Muenster cheese on it, and sometimes he wants Swiss. Who knows what he’ll want on it tomorrow? 🙂
Sometimes I toast the bread and sometimes I don’t. Tim likes this sammich on rye bread sometimes, too.
He’s a huge fan of Reuben sandwiches, but he did not care for the combination of saurkraut and Mandarin orange. However, this doesn’t rule out the other flavors! He does love to be adventurous with his sammiches.
I am not a big corned beef fan, so I use ham on my sammich. Mandarin Orange Habanero pepper jelly and ham, together with Swiss cheese on whole wheat. . . . . Be still, my heart. It’s good for all that leftover turkey, too, if you still have some. We don’t. Tim used it all on his sammiches.
Texas is famous for its “bowls of red,” and this recipe, which uses Texas Pepper Jelly’s awesome Habanero Salsa and Choptle Habanero hot sauce, is the best I’ve encountered yet! My family, also known as “experimental lab rats for my recipes,” will wholeheartedly agree. My husband did finally quit after three bowls, but it was only because the laws of physics simply would not fit another bite of “red” into his stomach.
We had guests for dinner on New Year’s Day, and here is the cracker/dip tray I set out.
Janice is awesome, and she pronounced the Texas Pineapple Habanero pepper jelly awesome as well.
This is the tray I took to our family reunion on Christmas Day. That’s Pineapple Habanero pepper jelly in the center, and the red stuff is Habanero Salsa. Check out which dips have been dipped into the most!
Things are probably getting pretty hectic around your house right now; it’s Monday of Christmas Week! Why not whip together a really simple snack food and set it on the table for your family to dive into while you take care of last-minute details?
