One of my favorite cookbooks is The Comfort Diner Cookbook, by Ira Freehoff and Pia Catton. It has a ton of comfort food recipes from the famed New York City eating establishment, everything from classic American sandwiches and breakfasts to pies and other desserts and great side dishes. This one sounds especially intriguing. It's the Cobb Salad Sandwich. Hey, why have a salad as a salad if you can have it as a sandwich?Cobb Salad Sandwich
4 6 to 8 oz chicken breasts
1/4 cup olive oil
12 slices bacon
8 slices country style white bread
1/2 cup blue cheese dressing
2 avocados, peeled, pitted, and sliced in eighths
8 leaves Romaine lettuce
4 sliced tomatoes
Place the chicken between two pieces of wax paper and pound to an even thickness.
Brush a grill pan with 2 tablespoons of olive oil. Bring the pan to medium high heat and cook two of the chicken breasts for 8 to 10 minutes per side until golden brown and cooked through. Repeat with remaining oil and chicken.
Cook the bacon until crispy or the way you like it. Place on paper towels to remove excess.
To make sandwich: Spread two tablespoons of blue cheese dressing on one slice of bread. On the other slice, place one chicken breast and three slices of bacon. Top with four avocado slices, two leaves of lettuce, and one tomato slice. Close the sandwich with the slice of bread covered with the dressing. Slice in half and serve.
Repeat to make the remaining sandwiches.
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4-10-2008 @ 6:01PM
CreamBunny said...
Okay, so this sandwich sounds pretty good, but it's totally unoriginal. bleu cheese, bacon, avocado, and grilled chicken do not a revelation make.
That aside, I have to say that I really hate the food at the Comfort Diner. The only quasi-decent meals to be had there are during breakfast, but it's SO overpriced, everything ends up leaving a bad taste in your mouth.
I have not read their cookbook, but I would assume that they would use the same recipes in their restaurant, and the food is TERRIBLE, if not very bland & boring, at best.
Their desserts are just about the worst atrocities ever conceived. They would have done well to have adapted any semblance of a mainstream Cook's Illustrated/Martha Stewart/Joy of Cooking/Betty Crocker recipe for the abomination they call their Mile-High Apple Pie or a name something to that effect. It looked exciting, since it was a pretty tall, thick piece of pie, but when my boyfriend and I bit into it, we both involuntarily spat it out at the same time. It was impossibly dry, impossibly all-white pie that was flavorless, bizarrely apple-less; DISGUSTING! and I like eating plain pie-crust, but this stuff was so strange and insufferably thick, dry, and NASTY! It honestly felt like hardtack going around in my mouth with partially dehydrated apples that had the flavor sucked out of them. And we had actually tried this pie twice, and both in the fall during peak apple season!
Also, what they call "macaroni and cheese" is everything that it says it is, but nothing of what you'd expect it to be. It's merely some overcooked cavatappi tossed in butter and sprinkled with greasy, unimpressively mild, shredded orange cheese; no topping, no bechemel, no eggs; nothing. I'm very curious as to what they concocted in the way of a written recipe for the cookbook b/c trust me, that was it folks, and for $10!
I would recommend that you save your money and stay away from both the restaurant and the cookbook, especially if you're in need of good comfort food (recipes) for special company. that is, unless you despise your in-laws and would delight in the look of pained horror on their faces as they bite into your "carefully" prepared meal, or something like that. but that would be evil. and that karma's a naughty one, you know.
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