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Sardines on Toast

Posted by lizhenry on 9-18-08 with 17 Tiny

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Instructions

Make some toast with two slices of bread. Open a can of sardines. Use a fork to mash the sardines up a little bit on the toast. Serve open-face. Mmmm. Good for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. Healthy and nutritious!

Optional ingredients to fancy it up: 

* A slice of tomato
* Some lettuce
* A squeeze of lemon juice or dash of vinegar
* Salt

The fancier the bread, the less embarrassing of a dinner this is.

You will find that there is slightly too much sardine to put on the toast. Either pile it high or feed the extra sardine to your cat. Don't fool yourself that if you put it in the fridge, you'll remember to eat it later. FFS, just get rid of it and open a new can next time.

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dan · hahaha, that is some serious old man fare
Posted: 9-18-08 @ 10:32am
lizhenry · I'm crippled so it all makes sense. I'm rollin' with the old folks!
Posted: 9-18-08 @ 10:35am
Minnie · do you eat the sardine eyeballs?!
Posted: 9-18-08 @ 11:00am
lizhenry · In the cans of sardines I buy, the heads are chopped off. The sardines are sort of plump. And headless. Thus, no eyeballs. Not like anchovies or those fried salty fishes you get in Korean restaurants!
Posted: 9-18-08 @ 11:01am
Minnie · so, you are eating the intestines?
Posted: 9-18-08 @ 11:02am
dan · this is a gross line of questioning.
Posted: 9-18-08 @ 11:02am
lizhenry · I kind of just mash it up and go for it. Have never spotted any intestines. That is what the lettuce leaf is good for, like a little blanket to hide the possible fish innards.

But look, don't they *gut* fish before they do stuff with them?  Like how Menolly cut her hand gutting a packtail? Or what they hire students to do on Alaskan boats for summer jobs?

Posted: 9-18-08 @ 11:05am
mct · you know, shrimp is pretty gross, when i think about it, but they have a cuter name than sardines do
Posted: 9-18-08 @ 11:31am
dan · i think sardine is a pretty damn cute word.  Its still old man fare.  I hope i like them when im an old man, i've always wanted to eat sardines on crackers and drink coffee while reading a great american novel.
Posted: 9-18-08 @ 10:13pm
mct · totally reasonable! my gramps used to do that, except he'd eat his sardines while drinking greyhounds in the shade.
Posted: 9-19-08 @ 10:33am
Chris Lehrer · No no, you only gut and head sardines and anchovies because those parts don't preserve well. If you've got them fresh, you fry or broil them whole and eat them that way, salted. Yum!
Posted: 9-20-08 @ 07:12am
Chris Lehrer · You don't have to hire people with a clue: any slob can gut a sardine. You pick it up and stick your thumb under its chin and pop the head off, then you run your thumb down the belly and tear the guts out. All set -- 15 seconds if you're a novice. But they're better whole, intact, fried or broiled crisp with salt and maybe lemon.
Posted: 9-20-08 @ 07:13am
ladycakes · In my house we smash a sardine into a bowl and then pour ramen all over it with only a dash of the seasoning packet. 

Veggies optional, but I like a little bean sprout, green onion, and shredded carrot.
Posted: 10-03-08 @ 11:45am
WheresTheGrub · Oh man!  Sardines and toast...with a layer of mayonnaise.  Saltines and sardines are delighful too!
Posted: 10-03-08 @ 01:01pm
Chris Lehrer · Boy howdy is that ever Japanese home cooking! Now just add a raw egg and you're ready to move here.
Posted: 10-09-08 @ 10:41am
ladycakes · One of me and my kid's life dreams is to visit Japan and eat our way across the country then visit the Studio Ghibli museum. 

*sigh*  Someday  *sigh*
Posted: 10-10-08 @ 11:09am
woosie · Menolly - haha. Once I had a whole fish on my plate at a restaurant and I had to put a lemon slice over the eyeball. Pass the klah.
Posted: 10-29-08 @ 10:53am
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