I’m such a lazy glutton
October 30, 2002 – 12:10 pmToday's late breakfast/brunch thing was a quick kind of pan bagnat, which is a kind of French sandwich. You're supposed to make it with tuna and all sorts of goodies, but I made it with rosemary potatoes.
Basic recipe: thickly slice some red potatoes. Mince three or so cloves of garlic and sautee them in butter with a copious amount of rosemary. Next, add the potatoes and cook for a minute, then add beef stock, salt pepper and a pinch of thyme. Cover and simmer until potatoes are tender. You may wish to spend this time worrying over your Spanish homework, which you haven't touched (it's so much worse because you skipped Spanish Monday in order to prepare for a statistics test). You should have a good ten or fifteen minutes to agonize. When the potatoes are done, remove them from the skillet and reduce the stock under high heat. When the stock is down to a whisper, add a splash of white wine and deglaze the skillet, cooking until the whole mess is fairly thick.
Pause to check your email.
Take a loaf of French bread, cut it in half lengthwise, and scoop out some of its innards. Drizzle olive oil along the insides of the loaf, then spoon in the sauce from the skillet. Layer in the potatoes, fresh sliced tomato, lettuce or endive, and Swiss cheese. Wrap the sandwich and refrigerate for about an hour. You may wish to spend that hour agonizing some more over your Spanish homework, which you still haven't touched, you lazy bum. Remove the sandwich and cut it into slices. Munch away.
If you have a spare moment, make an entry in your journal about lunch, which is so much more interesting than that Spanish homework you're agonizing over. You big lazy bum.
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