An open-faced hot sandwich will require more effort. On the other hand, by itself it can take the place of a substantial breakfast or lunch. Sprinkle an inch-thick piece of French bread with soy sauce, spread butter on it, place a few pieces of canned Pacific saury or skipper fish on it, cover that with several slices of hard-boiled egg and several slices of fresh cucumber or a pickle, sprinkle with chopped scallions or yellow onions and greens, spread a little bit of mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated cheese, after that place it in the toaster oven for 4-5 minutes. A lot simpler and healthier than this multistoried construction is a hot open-faced sandwich with baloney (it is called “Doctor’s Sausage” in Russian), covered just with a wedge of pineapple.
When I stay up too late, I sometimes prepare these kinds of eggs even at night, which is awfully unhealthy, but devilishly tasty. My sleepy wife sometimes comes out at the scent and sounds reaching her from the kitchen, and then, of course, I'm obliged to share it with her. Delicious Russia: Eggs sunny side up for breakfast
And finally, the Soviet classic – navy-style macaroni. Somehow people are getting too lazy to prepare it, but boiled meat is almost always left in the refrigerator from bouillon. You need to grind it through a meat grinder. In a frying pan sauté onions with vegetable oil, add boiled ground meat, a little bit of chopped greens, and boiled macaroni (the best of them are those requiring the longest cooking time – for cooking time look at the instructions on the package; cook them in a large quantity of salted boiling water with bay leaves), then combine all the ingredients, cover the dish with a pot cover and for a few minutes keep it on a stove with the burner turned off. Pickles go very well with this dish. The dish is an unsophisticated one, but very solid and filling.
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