What do you do when you get home at 8 in the morning after a very fun night out and you wake up at half three on a Saturday afternoon feeling somewhere between the glee of still-a-bit-squiffy and the inevitable looming bout of The Fear which is due to hit at aroud half 5? You make a hangover-curing fear-busting brunch, that’s what you do.
Inspired by this lady I decided to make a kick ass eggy toasted and ham and cheese sambo. Bring it on.
What you need for two hungover heads
4 slices of bread – I used regular white sliced pan for Niall’s and tried my favourite Polish bread for my own sambo. The regular sliced pan was better as the Polish bread didn’t go nice and crispy when toasted. Get your hands on some lovely Polish white bread asap, it makes the best toast. Not the best French toast though, it seems.
4 free range organic eggs, two for whisking and two for frying
1 red chilli, finely chopped
4 slices of good ham
Cheddar Cheese – as much as you like
A drop of red wine vinegar
Whisk two eggs in a bowl with the chilli. Dip your bread into the eggs until nice and soaked. Fry up your bread on one side. Flip over the bread and place the ham and cheese on the cooked side. Put the other slice of fried bread cooked side down on top. Let the bottom side of the bread cook nice and good, flip the bread over until the other side is cooked too. The cheese will go all melty and yum.
Fry the other two eggs to put on top of the sambo. Start frying them in the middle of making the sambos so it’ll be all nice and ready at the same time. I always put a little splash of red wine vinegar on my fried eggs, for two reasons: 1) it makes the eggs stay together really well and it adds a lovely flavour to them and 2) my friend Jocelyn always used to do that when we lived together so…I do it too!
So now you have your french toasted ham and cheese sandwich with a fried egg on top. Serve it up with some yummy mustard and HP brown sauce, and try to piece together the night before by retracing your steps…*contented sigh*…
MP3
This is especially for the lovely Julia. At about two in the morning last night (if you know what I mean) we were in a chipper on Wexford Street before going to Camden Palace for ‘a game of pool’ (translation=late pints). After scoffing falafels and garlic chips, we had a great dance down the aisle to this song. Nobody seemed to mind. Probably because we are amazing dancers.
Dean Martin – That’s Amore
Categories: Breakfast
March 29, 2009 at 11:27 am
Now that is proper hangover food. Big mug o’ tea and a comfy couch to go with that please…
March 29, 2009 at 6:58 pm
just made this for sunday tea. I did it on a griddle so the bread looks even more attractive with the brown griddle lines on it! JUMJUM
March 29, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Drooool. The Dutch do a hammy cheesy eggy brunch dish called uitsmijter, which I am rather fond of, but it’s v. utilitarian and nowhere near as stodgily delicious-looking as this.
March 29, 2009 at 9:51 pm
That is some spicy hangover cure!
March 29, 2009 at 10:47 pm
no no nom nom nom-alicious…….
March 30, 2009 at 3:48 pm
Hey Spud – serious stuff. The tea saved us as well as the cheese!
Darragh – good move with the griddle pan, my brain was not functioning at full capacity so I didn’t think of that.
Catherine – this was stodgy all right! It was an exercise in extreme stodge eating actually.
Rapture Ponies – it was slightly spicy actually because of the chilli, but next time I make it I’m going to add even more chilli or maybe tobasco or something like that. Not sure yet.
Manuel – thanks!!
March 30, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Oh dear, I should have read this recipe on Saturday morning … when I desperately needed it for my own hung-over head! If this doesn’t cure what ails you, I don’t know what will. It looks amazing!
March 30, 2009 at 8:07 pm
Hey Diva! It sure did cure us. That and the tea
The problem with going out and having a brilliant night is that the damage doesn’t stop when you stop drinking booze, it carries on until you stop eating crap the next day! Still, this was delicious crap. I don’t feel TOO guilty about it!
Btw – love your peep!!
March 30, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Gah, you are so right about the continuing damage, Aoife! This particular Saturday I swore I’d never do it again … but it may not be the first time I’ve said that.
This is exactly the kind of meal you need on the morning after, and really its not too bad at all. Quite balanced and completely sounds … unlike my Peep creation. LOL
April 1, 2009 at 12:00 am
Hey Diva – you’re awesome. Thanks for giving me a get-out-of-guilty-food-jail pass. You’re right! It was nutritious and made me feel a lot better. And that’s what counts!
April 1, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Love the fried egg on your sandwich – that’s the way we roll too! Glad you had such a fun time.
April 2, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Hi Laurie! Thanks again for the idea. It was a fun night and the sandwiches were yum!
April 2, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Aoife, this looks savage. Dunno if i’m down with the soft yolk-i like mine well done.Gonna attempt to make this at the weekend. Nyom
April 2, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Hey there green of eye, thanks for stopping by! I have to say I’m a fan of soft yolks, fried or boiled eggs. Everyone to their own though for sure. The soft egg is good with the sambo because when you break the yolk it oozes its loveliness all over the sambo….ggahhghhh*slobber* It’s yum! Good luck with this on the weekend!
May 17, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Aoifer,
I know this is an old post but I felt obliged to tell you that myself and Hannah were drooling over the eggyliscious/melted cheeseyness of this last night! Yes, they are all words.
We might have to come move in with you.
Will you be our Mom?
May 17, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Hello sweets! Thank you. Of course I’ll be yours and Hannah’s Mom. What a treat!
May 17, 2009 at 2:00 pm
We can eat and lunge together. =)
May 19, 2009 at 5:03 pm
Stancing m’lady – stancing!!
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