December 25, 2007
The Open-Faced Christmas Sandwich
I had a bad day on Saturday December 22nd 2007. It should have been a good day given that it was my first day up at Red Mountain on my new skis, there was fresh snow, there were minimal people out and I was skiing with a good friend. It wasn’t. First run I hit a rock, popped my ski and then spent the next hour and a half trekking through waste deep, baseless powder to find the damn thing. In the end we didn’t even find it, some guy who lost his ski 50 yards down the hill noticed a ski-like object harpooned into a snowbank. I could have kissed the man.
I did a couple more runs, gouged another chunk of the ski off, (this time a core-shot), and decided that it was go time. My feet were near frozen as I had forgotten my ski boots in the car the night before and my hands were having sympathy pains toward the other extremities. We pack up and headed to The Grind in Rossland for some substance that wasn’t Rafter’s World Famous Nachos. It was here I decided that the day should end right now, and as a secondary thought… this upcoming year should and would be The Year of the Sandwich.
I have been told I am neglectful of this website, and I am. I know of a few loyal viewers that do read it when I am updating it on a regular bases. The problem is I am now living a pretty average life, day to day at work, weekends and evenings doing the routine things; groceries, exercise, reading and life. I can’t really image that there is anything really worthwhile to write about. By introducing the Year of the Sandwich I will kill two birds with one stone and document my sandwich intake for the upcoming year and be able to subtly tell anyone who cares the little isms that are happening in my day-to-day life.
Honestly though, I think every major stepping/turning point in my life has involved a sandwich, (in some way or another).
So, to the utter amazement and dismay of my non-engineering friend I have devised a spreadsheet that will allow me not only to describe but also accurately rate, ratio and rank the sandwiches throughout the year. I figure people will be able to follow my movements by my sandwiches.
I am unfortunately not eating a sandwich right now, (Graham, I am so sorry), but I did just finish an open-faced turkey leftover sandwich about 2 hours ago.
The story behind this sandwich is fairly simple; it was to wash the Christmas tequila down.
No, no, no, it was actually because we did our big Xmas dinner last night and are now into the leftovers. Dad, Cam, Breanne and I headed to Apex for some Christmas afternoon XC skiing. After an invigorating slide I returned to my Dad’s house famished. This sandwich has a touch of mayo, fresh chunks of turkey, the remaining cranberry sauce and a handful of the roasted veggies. As you can see it is an open face, not seen clearly in this photo is the surprisingly good alpine round bread from Ferraro Foods. It was DEEEE-licious.
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