INGREDIENTS:
For the Cucumber Dill Sandwich:
- ▢½ cucumber large
- ▢4 oz cream cheese softened
- ▢lemon zest
- ▢1 pinch salt
- ▢dill chopped
- ▢6 slices potato bread
For the Salmon Sandwich:
- ▢1 package smoked salmon
- ▢½ cucumber
- ▢2 oz cream cheese
- ▢dill chopped
- ▢1 pinch salt
- ▢6 slices pumpernickel bread
For the Egg Sandwich:
- ▢4 eggs hard boiled
- ▢2 tablespoons butter softened
- ▢1 tablespoon mayonnaise
- ▢1 pinch paprika
- ▢6 slices potato bread
For the Cranberry Chicken Sandwich:
- ▢3 chicken breasts boneless
- ▢¼ teaspoon thyme
- ▢3 tablespoons olive oil
- ▢2 oz cranberries
- ▢1 sprig watercress
- ▢1 tablespoon mayonnaise
- ▢2 teaspoons dijon
- ▢6 slices potato bread
INSTRUCTIONS:
For the Cranberry Chicken Sandwich:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Season chicken breasts with olive oil, salt and thyme. Bake for about 30 minutes. Let cool, rip cooked chicken into roughly 1 ½ inch pieces.
- Halve the cranberries and smash in a bowl. This step is messy!
- In a separate bowl, mix together mayonnaise and dijon mustard.
- Combine cranberries, chicken, mayonnaise mixture until incorporated.
- Butter sliced white bread bread. Add chicken mixture and a layer of watercress. Cut off the crusts and slice into rectangles.
For the Cucumber Dill Sandwich:
- Chop dill. Combine with softened cream cheese, lemon zest and a pinch of salt. (This mixture will be used again).
- Cut paper thin slices of cucumber.
- Spread cream cheese mixture onto white bread and add cucumbers slices. Cut off crusts, then cut rectangles.
For the Salmon Sandwich:
- Spread the same cream cheese mixture from the cucumber dill sandwiches on to pumpernickel bread.
- Add a layer of cucumbers, then salmon.
- Cut a circle out of the sandwich.
- Transfer some of the cream cheese mixture to a piping bag and pipe a dollop. Add a dill sprig for garnish.
- In a bowl, mash hard boiled eggs.
- Chop watercress
- Add butter, mayonnaise, paprika and watercress to a bowl. Mix until combined.
- Butter bread slices. Add egg mixture.
- Cut off crusts. Cut rectangles.