Weekly sandwich No.1. Smoked Mackerel and streaky bacon.

I had been eating too many sandwiches last year. They are great but as previously mentioned the inch of butter and brick sized piece of cheese that would accompany the bread was a fat breeder !
So If you have read this blog lately I have been trying to eat a bit more sensibly and incorporate vegetables into my diet and not counting Pickled Onion and Tomato sauce flavoured crisps as part of my 5 a day !
However you cannot take anything away from a good sandwich. It fills you, it satisfies you and it even handily fits into your pocket ! ha ha !
Its a shame but I have long disposed of my Hong Kong Phooey school lunch box with the little plastic beaker inside. To be fair it was used more as a weapon after the teacher confiscated my pea shooter when I was at school rather than a carrier of all things lunch related !
I am though intending on having a treat on the sandwich front once a week and decided to try something other than the normal Cheese Savoury or Egg,tomato and salad cream.
Tonight for my dinner I made a Smoked Mackerel and streaky bacon number on a sun dried tomato bread with a spreading of low fat Horseradish creme fraiche.
Now I love smoked fish but the smell it leaves in the whole of the house is not good and to leave the windows or the backdoor open would attract every cat in the neighbourhood to Chez Kev's and I cannot be doing with that. So my advice is to either have it before you go on holiday giving time for the odour to disperse or go around someone else's house tell them your cookers broken and ask to use their cooker ! ha ha !

Smoked Mackerel and streaky Bacon Sandwich.

Most supermarkets now have a good bakery on site. They have a huge variety of buns, sticks, bloomers and torpedoes to choose from. I picked this Tomato and herb bread from Asda Blyth's large bakery section and at £1.10 for a fair size loaf it was good value and saved me spending time making it myself !

1 Pre-cooked Smoked Mackerel fillet cooked under the grill.
2 slices of streaky bacon.
A handful of Rocket leaves.
3 slices of vine tomatoes.
2 slices of cucumber.
1 tablespoon of low fat creme fraiche with half a tablespoon of Horseradish cream mixed through it.

Now I am not going to insult your intelligence by telling you how to make a sandwich but here's a few pictures for the less kitchen savvy out their who think sandwiches come in plastic sleeves from garages and supermarkets (Nephew) !!! ha ha ! Enjoy.