The Best Cucumber Sandwich

Sometimes I feel like I'm getting away from my original point of this blog: to make Brian's stomach happy. I haven't even had one of the cute cartoons from the book lately. This is getting off track a bit, since this one is totally for myself. Brian may eat a cucumber sandwich, but something tells me he just wouldn't find it manly enough.

I know it may be presumptuous to say that my little cucumber sandwich is the best (I'm most likely not the first to make it this way either). However, even in the famous Brown's Hotel in London where I had tea, they basically just had the traditional white (it may have been a pale wheat) bread, butter, and cucumber. They may (although I can't completely remember) have added a sprig of dill. I've had tea at some nice places here, and they may have used cream cheese or mayo, but still sticky white bread and plain cucumber slices.

As simple as mine still is, the flavors are punchy enough to make a proper British lady in a hat blush, and the mix of the acidic cucumbers with the smooth cream cheese is just heaven (if you like cucumber sandwiches).

The Best Cucumber Sandwich Ever
for one sandwich
2 slices pumpernickel bread (also good on a seedy whole grain)
1 TBSP cream cheese
1/4 cup cucumber salad, left to marinate overnight, slightly drained

Spread cream cheese evenly on both slices of bread. Spread out cucumber salad so all the slices lay evenly across the bread. Place together and cut into finger-sized sandwiches (in half for smaller pieces of bread, quartered for larger pieces).

I like my bread to be soft, since the cucumbers are crunchy. Toasting the bread makes a little too crunch all around, and I do still like it to be slightly traditional. It is the perfect sandwich for a hot day!