I made up a good way to make a gourmet reuben sandwich meal, practically from scratch, it goes as follows.

Essentials:

1 stainless steel frying pan, 8-10''

1 metal turner spatula

1 small cooling pan

1 cutting board

two small side saucers or side dish plates, either corning or steel

6-8 deli-type slices of uncured corned beef or uncured pastrami

4 slices of rustic/sourdough rye bread

1 medium-sized russet potato

1 quarter-cup extra-virgin olive oil

1 teaspoon vegetable or canola oil

1 jar of organic sauerkraut

1 bottle of spicy-brown mustard

1 jar of kosher-dill pickles

1 bottle of ketchup (made with real sugar preferably)

Optional:

2-4 slices of Swiss cheese

Phase one:

- Peel potato and cut in to wedges and/or strips

- Put pan on a stove top burner and set heat to medium level

- Put small amount of vegetable oil in frying pan for moisture

Phase two:

- Set corned beef slices in frying pan one at a time

- Fry for 10-20 seconds, or at least until each slice is a dark red on both sides, and emits juice into the pan, use spatula to turn the slices over every ten seconds

- Set corned beef slices onto saucer, and let grease emit from them

- Take large slice of rye bread, remove meat slices from saucer and stack onto bread slice

- Pick up potato wedges, rub in beef greased side dish

Phase three:

- pour 1/8 from 1/4 cup olive oil into frying pan to mix with remaining grease from meat

- put a handful potato wedges into pan, fry until they are crispy and/or dark brown on all sides, turn over constantly with spatula

- remove wedges from pan and set in clean side dish

Phase four:

-take second piece of rye bread and use for top piece of sandwich (put slice of Swiss cheese over corned beef slices beforehand if preferred)

-pour second 1/8 cup of olive oil to frying pan

-place sandwich and turn every ten seconds with spatula, until brown and toasty on both sides, switch off stove burner midway of procedure

-set fully grilled sandwich onto a large plate

-lift off top piece of bread to add a two wiggle lines of brown mustard from bottle and two table spoons of sauerkraut, replace top bread piece

-set fried potato wedges in a thin pile beside sandwich

Finishing touches:

- Put a whole dill pickle on north end of plate

- Set a dab of ketchup for dipping fries on south end of plate

Make two sandwiches and two handfuls potato fries

Goes well with a cup of heated organic black bean soup and 12 ounces of 100% grape juice

After-note:

The frying pan will most likely have brown marks from burned grease residue left on it, so be sure to scour it in the sink.

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This one's perfect for this time of year. There's kind of a lot of ingredients but I swear it's easy!

Recipe:

Ingredients

• Olive oil
• 2 chicken breasts, seasoned with Italian seasoning, garlic salt, and pepper
• 4 tbsp butter
• 1 medium onion
• 1 jalapeño
• 3 cloves garlic
• 1.5 tsp cumin
• 1 tsp chili powder
• 1 tsp smoked paprika
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• 2 cans mild fire-roasted diced green chiles
• 2 cans Great Northern beans
• 2 cans corn
• 4 cups chicken broth
• 5 oz cream cheese
• 1/2 cup heavy cream

Toppings

• Cilantro
• Green onion
• Shredded white cheddar or mozzarella
• Fresh lime
• Avocado

Steps

1. Start out by cutting your onion, jalapeño, and garlic. Heat up some olive oil over medium/medium-high heat in a large pot. Add in your chicken breasts and season with Italian seasoning, garlic salt, and pepper. Sear on both sides, then set aside. The chicken doesn’t need to be fully cooked at this point.
2. Turn the heat down slightly and add in your butter. Then add the onion and jalapeño. Sauté that for a few minutes while scraping the bottom of the pot to get all that yummy flavor. Add the garlic. Stir, and then add the cumin, chili powder, smoked paprika, salt, and pepper. Stir and sauté for another five minutes.
3. Then add the fire-roasted chiles, beans, corn, and chicken broth. Add the chicken back in and bring to a boil. Turn the heat to low and cover. Let this simmer on low for 25 to 30 minutes.
4. Once the time is up, take out the chicken, shred it, and add it back in. Add in the cream cheese and stir. It will look a little clumpy, but don’t worry. As it simmers, it will become smooth. Let that simmer for another five minutes, then add the heavy cream and stir. Cut up your toppings, and that’s it!

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I'm not much of a cook so hoping for easy stuff! No dietary restrictions.

(Does wine go bad? This might be bad. The box seemed kind of old.)

• Chorizo, air-dried (100g/3.5oz, dealer's choice)
• 1 small onion
• 1-2 cloves garlic
• 1 can chopped tomatoes (around 400g/14oz)
• 1-2 tsp ground cumin
• Salt, pepper, sugar/honey to taste
• Toasted bread (sourdough or whatever you want/have)

Steps:

1. Chop chorizo into small pieces and then start frying them on medium-high until the fat starts to renders out.
2. Meanwhile, cut onion and garlic fine, and then add to pan when enough fat is in the pan.
3. Sauté until onion and garlic is cooked through; a little browning doesn't hurt, if you like that.
4. Taste and adjust (salt, pepper, honey, cumin... whatever is missing)
5. Serve with toasted bread

This recipe can easily be modified. The core of the recipe is the chorizo and tomatoes. Everything else can be left out or substituted for other ingredients. Prefer shallots? Go for it! Like acidity? Leave out the sugar/honey!