Mark's Ultimate Marinated Vidalia Onion & Tomato Plant Sandwich

Piled high alongside fresh in-season marinated sweetness onions together with garden tomatoes, these Marinated Vidalia Onion & Tomato Sandwiches are the ultimate inwards simplicity together with summertime yumminess.

One affair my hubby Mark is going to immature adult woman when nosotros deed inwards a duet of weeks are the onion & Lycopersicon esculentum sandwiches he loves to instruct at The WoodShed eating seat inwards Stanley, NC.  See, they're kinda an establishment inwards these parts.  Super simple.  No fuss.  And totally yummy.  To my husband, they're the ultimate marinated onion together with Lycopersicon esculentum sandwiches.

So, since I'm sweetness sometimes, I decided to figure out how to brand them earlier nosotros deed away.  The hubby says I accept them recreated beautifully!  In all their super uncomplicated yumminess together with glory.
 The WoodShed is a no fuss, non fancy, small-town, good-cookin' steakhouse correct beside the railroad tracks inwards Stanley, NC.  And it's i of my husband's absolute favorite places to go.  One argue he loves it? ... because he tin instruct a huuuuuuuge steak cooked extra rare, only the means he likes it.

Another argue he loves it?

Because he tin swallow all the onion & Lycopersicon esculentum sandwiches he wants.  Piled high alongside marinated onions together with tomatoes on ever-so-lightly toasted breadstuff ... yous know, hence it tin soak upward all the deliciousness of the marinade, turning into only the correct amount of sogginess inwards the breadstuff without becoming too  soggy.

Now that it's Vidalia onion season, I surprised the hubby past times making him his ultimate marinated onion & Lycopersicon esculentum sandwiches at home.  If yous can't instruct Vidalia onions ... grown exclusively inwards a detail part of Georgia, guide a mild, sweetness onion available inwards your area.

Making these yummy sandwiches is uncomplicated ... together with this is i instance where uncomplicated is the best.

Simply spell upward some onions together with some tomatoes inwards rounds.  I've works life the easiest means to spell a Lycopersicon esculentum is alongside a serrated bread knife ... or other serrated knife, if yous don't accept a bread knife .

The 'teeth' on a serrated knife slice through the Lycopersicon esculentum hence easily together with nicely, without squishing the bejeepers out of it.

Just role a back-and-forth sawing motion alongside the serrated knife, together with you'll accept actually prissy 'clean' Lycopersicon esculentum slices!

Throw the onion together with Lycopersicon esculentum slices inwards alongside a sugar-and-vinegar marinade together with allow them sit down inwards the fridge for at to the lowest degree several hours.

When you're ready to devour gather your sandwiches, rattling lightly toast some bread.  And I do hateful very  lightly toast the breadstuff ... similar to the signal where yous may only barely endure beginning  to run across some golden dark-brown toastiness.  You desire the breadstuff to nation prissy together with soft inside, but laissez passer the exterior only a ship upon of extra sturdiness from the toasting to endure able to absorb marinade juice from the onion together with tomatoes.

Butter the toasted breadstuff ...

... together with hence lay on those wonderful marinated tomatoes ...

... together with marinated sweetness Vidalia onions!

Ooooooooh, that breadstuff gets sooooo practiced when it soaks upward the marinade juice.

Sprinkle alongside some tabular array salt & pepper ...

... transcend alongside the other breadstuff slice, together with you're practiced to go.

Good to instruct to relish Mark's Ultimate Marinated Vidalia Onion & Tomato Sandwich.  Simplicity at its best.  

Since nosotros won't endure able to instruct to The WoodShed whatever more, I accept a sneaking suspicion I'll endure asked to whip these uncomplicated beauties upward quite frequently.

And I sure won't mind. ...  As long every bit he'll share.

Marinated Vidalia Onion & Tomato Sandwiches

Source:  Inspired by The WoodShed restaurant
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

• 2 Vidalia onions {or other mild, sweetness onions}
• 2 medium-sized tomatoes
• 1/2 c. granulated sugar
• 1/4 c. white vinegar
• 1 c. water
• sourdough breadstuff {or other 'crusty' sturdy bread, or regular whole wheat or white bread}
• butter
• salt & pepper

Directions

1. Thinly spell onions into rings together with identify inwards a medium-sized bowl. Slice tomatoes unopen to 1/4-inch thick. Place inwards bowl on transcend of onions.
2. Combine sugar, vinegar, together with water; stir until saccharide dissolves. Pour over onions together with tomatoes. Cover together with chill at to the lowest degree three hours or overnight.
3. When ready to laid upward a sandwich, spell 2 pieces of breadstuff together with VERY lightly toast each spell ... yous desire the breadstuff withal soft on the within but slightly toasted on the exterior to laissez passer it only a fleck to a greater extent than 'sturdiness' to soak upward the marinade juices from the onions together with tomatoes. Butter i side of each spell of toasted bread.
4. Place a layer of Lycopersicon esculentum slices on the buttered side of i spell of bread; sprinkle alongside a fleck of tabular array salt together with pepper.  Top alongside a layer of onions; sprinkle alongside a fleck of tabular array salt together with pepper. Don't worry close marinade juice getting all over the breadstuff ... marinade soaking into the breadstuff makes the sandwich sooooo good! And recollect ... that's why nosotros toasted the bread.    :-)
5. Top alongside the remaining spell of bread, buttered side down. Serve immediately.

Enjoy!

Please relish these other summertime vegetable dishes from ...

Green Bean, Walnut, & Feta Salad

Stewed Zucchini & Summer Squash

Fresh Cucumber Pickles {Refrigerator Pickles}

Spicy Pickled Okra {no canning required}

Parmesan Broiled Tomatoes


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