The Wild Pastrami of the Serengeti

I like my bread toasted. So usually, I toast it, then make the sandwich.

But tonight I thought, "What if I made the sandwich...sorta...first?"

Let's do something real basic: rye bread, spicy brown mustard, pastrami.

You will need: a toaster oven

Pull the grate out of the toaster oven. Drop 2 slices of rye on the grate. Cover both slices of rye with spicy brown mustard. Throw a few slices of pastrami on the mustarded rye. Push that grate back in, flip the door up and toast.

Now, if you're like me, you have your toaster oven set pretty low on the 'brown' setting. Better to work up to a 'full toast' rather than have your oven go past by default.

So I'm gonna be bold and tell you to hit it with a second toast. (If you're less cautious, ignore this step).

OK.

The hard part. You have two 'open' pastrami sandwiches now. Just about perfect. Except that there is nothing nearing perfection with an open sandwich. So get the two halves close together and flip them together quickly. It's not something that can be taught. Well, OK, it can be taught in Physics class. Something about inertia...mmm...see acceleration and...in motion. Google it. Anyway.

Ah. Now. Perfection.

Unless you're one of those people who need to slice it. (Sigh) Go ahead.

Now eat. Enjoy. It's your right.