sandwich spread beside mayo

What about a nice Pesto?  Grocery store jarred is fine by me.  Cheap and friendly.

Maybe some fresh sliced tomatoes, a little sweet onion, a bit of nice crisp butter lettuce.

YUM!

Hummus

Avocado spread

cream cheese and Boursin mixed together

Ricotta cheese with herbs blended

drained salsa

olive tapennade

white bean puree

Copy  MickeyD s Special Sauce

Fig jam goes on everything.

Cranberry cream cheese, "Soften cream cheese and mix with cranberry sauce" turkey, Swiss cheese, lettuce, tomato. on a Croissant roll..............it is easy and they will love it.............ChefBillyB

turkey cut in chunks

add chopped celery, carrot and spring onion

add mayonnaise, with lemon and curry added

raisins

unusual but still very simple. 

I have to agree about the butter.  I've been known to make a sandwich and put butter on it when no one is looking.  My favorite is a toasted bagel with mortadella and butter.  Talk about sinful!

Copy  MickeyD s Special Sauce

Which is easy enough, as it's just Thousand Island dressing. And I agree, that's a good match with turkey.

Also barbecue sauce, either straight or cut various ways. Indeed, combining mayo, bbq sauce, a shot of mustard is a great sandwhich spread that goes with almost any protein.

Consider taking a sideways step from other cuisines. F'rinstance, tzatziki is usually served with lamb. And might be slightly bland with turkey. But a short of hot sauce can perk it up, and the flavors all work together.

To really surprise people, go with something on the Asian side. Thai peanut sauce, for instance. Or create something based around hosin sauce. The possibilities are endless.

I agree, I can't think of anything that's not better with butter.  Just don't tell anyone!

jalapeno/chili jam, mustard

One of the condiments that I do is a chilli chutney. Its basically re-hydrated prunes, sultanas, currents, onion and vinegar. It has a higher accompaniment score than any other sauce, mustard, or pickle. The description on our label basically summarises it as a clumsy chutney that has sweet, hot, spicy, and oxidised flavour, but we have found that people are genuinely in love with the product. I actually tried to copy a hot italian chilli jam. I got close but when I tasted this I stopped.

Branston Pickle!

YEAY, Pete - or even picallilli!

What, please, is Branston Pickle?

An american site sells it and there are photographs of the various jars available.

http://www.britishdelights.com/branston.asp

Wiki info on picallilli

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piccalilli

OMG.  Branston pickle is the best thing since sliced bread.  Honestly.  How about trying hummus as a mayo substitute?  You can flavor it with lemon juice, curry, peppers, whatever suits the sandwich.  

FYI, see Branston Pickle.

compound butters, to which there is no end

mango chutney, or any chutney really...cranberry would be good

cranberry port sauce...think thansgiving

mincemeat

joey

When I was a kid the school always used butter on our sandwiches, I guess because it does spoil through the day in your brown bag.  But isn't that what the English do to their finger sandwiches at tea time? That also keeps your sandwiches from getting soggy.  Compound butters sound good to me.

Errrm - the 'English' is what we here in the UK call BRITISH!

That's why they made a preview button so that you could edit before you submit...

oops, my bad

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ishbel 

Errrm - the 'English' is what we here in the UK call BRITISH!

Now, now, Ishbel, maybe he actually meant that he thought the Scots DON'T use butter. 

I don't think so, Siduri - and I think that 'he' is a 'she'!

I know YOU know the difference, but..

As I always say, you can call me Scots, you can even call me British, just don't call me English!  (Or an Englishman a Scot or a Welshman).  Four nations, one United Kingdom.

oops, he and she, scots and english, we are abounding in potential offenses! 

i was being facetious, anyway.  Obviously, i hope. 

Anyway, i actually didn;t read the name carefully enough to notice that among all those letters was "girl".  When I was a "girl" - sorry about that. 

You two are funny!

btw~kaneohe~a small town on oahu in hawaii

~ girl ...

~ in az, arizona

But I digress, I tried Siduri's idea of curried turkey salad (right?) for lunch today on really great crackers, rather than bread, DE~LI`CIOUS!!

Whip cream cheese with finely chopped fresh celery, baby carrots, yelllow & red peppers the add a jar of sundried tomato/pesto.  Veggie cheese spread makes a great turkey garden sandwich.