Chicagoist: One Great Improve This Sandwich: Prairie Moon's Blackened Salmon Club

xlprq

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:09:26 -0600

The painted desert soup is one of the best things I've ever had.

salaboutme

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:57:27 -0600

Can have a club club sandwich? Dawn is buying me amish cheese today- cheddar & bacon. She says..., "Eating this cheese is like combining the fun of a waterparkand the sexiness of Patrick Swayze and putting it inyour mouth. In the words of Ice Cube, Today was a good day." We will be indugling at calexico tonite.

Chuck Sudo

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:49:17 -0600

Stealth: Although pumpernickel is more porous and soft than standard rye, I'm not convinced that marble rye was the wrong choice. The sharp sweet taste of the grain makes for a good contrast in flavor from the salmon. I really think it should have been toasted more. My concern with using a baguette or Italian panini loaf would be putting too much bread to the mix. Then you go from having a quasi-salad to a desert dry sub.

Ingrid

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:35:41 -0600

I have, on many occasions, ordered a sandwich like this and I just end up cutting it up, tossing it and turning it into a salad. It really annoys me to order a sandwich that you can't hold in your hands...you wonder if the people who create them try them out first, or maybe they just don't care?

Stealth

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:30:49 -0600

yeah, you're right. Wrong bread. Too much wet stuff. Too much absorption. Some kind of hearth bread? A flat bread. That bread they use for panninis?

Chuck Sudo

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:21:41 -0600

At one point there was so much salmon and spinach on the plate I considered asking for some olives to make a nicoise. BTW, this isn't to slag on Prairie Moon at all. I'm a huge fan of their "Painted Desert" soup made with roasted poblano and butternut squash. Their key lime chicken fajitas are also pretty good.

Navin

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:14:41 -0600

Improve it by removing 1/2 the amount of that shit that's drowning the Salmon.

xlprq

Thu, 25 Sep 2008 11:54:50 -0600

I agree completely. This is a great-sounding sandwich, but the execution is messy and sub-par. It still tastes good, but could be done a lot better.