Location: My tiny kitchen

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ET has been out of town for business for two weeks and when he’s away, grilled sandwiches are my top dinner picks. The weather in Vancouver is finally warming up and while day-dreaming a delicious Italian salad with fresh mozzarella, hot house tomatoes and basil, I thought of turning the salad into a sandwich! Wait, there is something wrong with this idea: there will be no meat in the sandwich!!! After a moment of panic, I thought of including a few slices of Calabrese salami in the sandwich. The sandwich was phenomenal; it tasted so good that I feel sorry for myself of not having thought of it earlier. The spicy and rich flavour of the salami was the perfect meat and it perfectly complimented the fresh mozzarella. Who says day-dreaming cannot be productive huh?

To make two sandwiches you will need:

- 1 hot house tomatoes, cut into slices
- A few basil leaves

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- 1 fresh mozzarella, cut into slices
- 4 pieces of your favourite type of bread

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- A few slices of Calabrese salami
- Mayonnaise
- Mustard
- Margarine

For each sandwich:

1. On one slice of bread, spread mayo on one side. On the second slice of bread, spread mustard on one side.
2. Put basil, tomatoes, mozzarella and salami on the bread with mayo. Place the other slice of bread on top, with mustard side down.
3. Spread margarine on the top and bottom of the sandwich.
4. Place the sandwich into a non stick pan. Using medium heat, brown one side of the sandwich with the pan covered, which takes about 2 minutes. Turn the sandwich over and brown the other side with pan covered for 1 minute.

Oh by the way, I must warn you this is a messy sandwich. Eating this sandwich is like eating a really juicy burger loaded with lots of add-ons, you will make a mess with the juice dripping all over your hands, the table and if you are unlucky, even on your clothes. Every bite is worth the mess though. I should make ET one when he comes back. He has been having butter chicken for many nights, which he really enjoyed, but some western food would be a nice change for him :-)

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