$12 Sandwich

Do you ever go to a bistro for lunch and see a sandwich that looks tasty and say "$12?! What the what?!" It happens to me pretty often. With a little bit of foresight, those sandwiches could be had for a couple of bucks. Good quality deli meat, roasted veggies, it doesn't take much. Obviously, you can choose whatever veggies and meat (or no meat) that you like, add cheese, pesto, tomato sauce, whatever! The winner for this sandwich is the roasted veggies. Packed with flavour and juiciness, plus healthy stuff.

Ingredients

• 3 zucchinis, sliced lengthwise into 1/4" strips
• 4 roma tomatoes, sliced lengthwise into 4, deseeded.
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• about 1 tbsp olive oil
• good, crusty bread
• good quality deli meat of your choice
• optional: whatever else you like in sandwiches: mayo, goat cheese, raw baby spinach, roasted eggplant, etc.

Let's do it!

1. In a large bowl, mix together the salt, oil and garlic powder. Add veggies and toss to coat.
2. Arrange on a baking tray. They can touch, but make sure they're not on top of one another.
3. Turn oven to 400ºF, put the tray in the oven (I don't wait for it to preheat. Seems like a waste of energy.)
4. When the edges turn brown, about 10-15 minutes or so, take them out and flip everything over. 
5. Bake until everything looks smaller than it did before, but not burnt!
6. Let everything cool.

Lunch it up!
I put the veggies and deli meat in a container and the bread in a plastic bag. I toasted the bread and made the sandwich at work so that it's not soggy. Note, maybe I should have drained the veggies or something after, but this sandwich will be pretty drippy!

Serves 2 or more.

Quinoa and Other Stuff Salad

Otherwise known as the "Quinoa and whatever else I have laying around" salad.

Quinoa is supposed to be super good for you, so I try to make it as often as I can.

Ingredients
1/2 cup uncooked quinoa, rinsed well
3/4 cup water
Any veggies, beans, etc. you have laying around
1 lemon or some kind of vinegar
Same amount of some kind of oil
salt

Let's do it!
Throw the quinoa and water in a rice cooker and turn it on. If you don't have a rice cooker, boil the water, throw in the quinoa, simmer and cover. Drain if necessary.

Rinse/chop any veggies you have laying around. I had frozen edamame, chickpeas and tomatoes.

Measure up 1:1 lemon or vinegar and oil in a glass jar. Put in some salt. I also tossed in a bit of dried basil. You can use fresh basil or whatever light herb you like. Shake shake shake!

Mix everything up in a container with a lid.

Enjoy!