New Deli, Need Ideas

Anything with curry, mixed with grapes or apples. Either on salad greens or in a wrap. Forgot -- good luck on your venture!!!!

 

I've never used that, either. Just the yellow curry like Spice Islands puts out. Some of it is so spicy hot that it turns a lot of people off. I use curry in deviled eggs, mixed with a little chutney run through a processor. It's also good with chopped chicken or crab mixed with chopped apple or halved grapes and some chutney and pecans. Now I'm getting hungry and I just ate dinner. Sheesh.

 

Spam casserole. Good and good for ya.

 

Thanks...now I'm hungry.

 

Reubens are always wonderful if made correctly and I've always liked beef tongue
sliced very, very thin and layered thick on rye. I can't eat all the spicy, curry stuff,
so I look for good fresh meats and greens for lunch delights. Freshly baked breads
for the sandwiches is always a good customer draw, especially whole wheat, rye and
French bread. For salads, I always go for the loose leaf lettuces rather than the
standard iceburg and then throw everything I've got in the veggie drawer in with them.
I maybe too simple for this crowd though.

 

Chinese Chicken salad. Lettuce, shredded chicken, crispy won tons, rice noodles, maybe some almond slivers & either a soy or ginger based dressing. Local places here, sell hundreds of pre-made salads....
And, yes, I just made myself hungry!

 

Smoked salmon, cream cheese, capers, red onion & dill

Ham, swiss cheese & mustard

Chicken, cottage cheese, cashews & lettuce

Curried egg, red onion & lettuce with a dill mayo

Red salmon, malt vinegar, red onion & lettuce

Ploughmans - Roast beef (or ham), sharp cheddar, pickled onions on a rye

Proscuttio, provolone cheese, marinated capsicum (bell peppers for you lot), marinated eggplant (aubergene for you lot) - toasted

Rare roast beef, horseradish creme, potato salad & lettuce

Greek Salad - cucumbers, lettuce, capsicum, black olives and fetta

Chicken Ceaser - can do as a salad and a wrap

Prawn (shrimp for you lot) Ceaser salad

Wardorf Salad - chopped apples, celery, walnuts mixed together with a sour cream/mayo dressing

Curried Pasta salad - bow tie shaped pasta (can do any shaped pasta), chopped capsicum, cooked bacon with a dressing made from lite cream, mustard and olive oil - make it when the pasta is hot and it serves great as a chilled pasta dish

Cous Cous salad - cous cous made on stock rather than water (much tastier and just as easy to make up) mixed with anything really but common versions are - pistachio nuts, capsicum, sultanas

Thai warm beef salad - lots of herbs and freshly grilled slices of steak

Minute steak, caramelised onions, cheddar cheese melts - can do the same with a chicken fillet - mmmmm

Tandoori chicken wraps - tandoori marinated chicken slices (cooked fresh can be done on a sandwich press easily), minted yoghurt, lettuce in a wrap

The possibilities are endless ....

You know what I really like from my favourite sandwich shop - all sandwiches come with a small red or green apple .... its a great way to encourage healthy eating and to clean the palate after eating ....

Have fun

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How about stuffed potatoes (my favourite lunch options) - full cooked potatoes, cut and fill with different things - chicken, lettuce, avocado, satay sauce or homous, tabouli, cheese or ham, cheese, pineapple & sour cream, sour cream, chives and cheese or prawns in a seafood sauce, cheese, sour cream .... or you could do hot toppings - chicken curry, bolognaise sauce, taco style, chicken & corn .... really healthy options are cottage cheese, ham or chicken or prawns .... basically you just cook the potatoes - wrap in foil to keep warm or blitz in a microwave to get the heat back into them then add toppings from your existing salad/sandwich making area ... the hot sauces can be made ahead and portioned up for a quick reheat in the microwave ... to keep the hot toppings on top of the potato for ones like the taco style then put some corn chips standing up (stuck into the opened potato) to form a ring around the top - fill ring with the hot mix ....

 

Sheesh, Fee, I'm impressed! And hungry. I love smoked turkey on rye or pumpernickle with good mustard, provolone and roasted red pepper and romaine. I'm getting some great ideas here. Keep them coming!

Edit: That mayonnaise story just pissed me off. Makes me want to never buy Hellman's again.

 

"what else would you put in the Spam Casserole?"

Ummmm... Mushroom soup? Maybe that's not such a good idea. Heck, I just learned gorgonzola is a kind of cheese. I thought it was one of those Muppets.

 

Shit, Dale. ROTFLMOA!!!!!

 

I used to make this one a lot when I was a short order cook many years ago.

smoked turkey, swiss cheese, creamy cole slaw, and 1000 island dressing grilled like a reuben

EDIT: Once again I wanted to wish you and your wife good luck on your new adventure.

 

Be still my heart...Fiona mentioned smoked salmon. I looooooove smoked salmon, but the
cost of good salmon fillets here is outrageous. Apparently, rivers that have dams are
destroying spawning habitat. Damn! SS fillet with a caper sauce on a bed of lettuces
is pure heaven.

Where is this deli and how can I get there???!!! Hurry, I'm starving!

 

Wait a minute. I thought we were moving, hello? Building a house? *knock*knock*

I can eat my weight in bruschetta, especially this time of year. And cucumbers. Not together though.