The frittata/caponata sandwich-or, how food could be if you only dared.

[vixengrl]

Take two slices of actually good bread--bakery bread. The kind Amoroso passes for (you could use kaiser rolls, even), the stuff your grandmother made--toast it--and get some caponata. This is a spread which involves eggplant and tomato and sometimes olives. If you have tomato sauce without eggplant, well okay, use that, but caponata is better. Find a place that sells it or figure out how to make it.

Now, frittata--this is like an omelet, except it isn't. It has lots of "inclusions" often of a zucchini-flower or artichoke variety--you know, it's what you have on hand. Spinach is nice. Mushrooms work very well. Just beat up two eggs and mix in your whatever and cook it in an oiled pan until the eggs are solid. If you can not do this much, you may not have a frittata/caponata sandwich. Go eat a burger that some clown has made.

Make thick substantial slices of whatever bread you have on hand. Toast it. Liberally daub both slices (or side of your roll) with your caponata--and then, and this is important, overlay the sauce with a cheese slice. I recommend provolone, namely, sharp provolone, but even a Kraft American single could do the job--this is to be "glue". Because you will now take your vegetable omelet--the fritatta part, and fold it into a size and shape that sort of fits into your bread. And then put the bread-cheese-frittata ensemble in the toaster oven for a few minutes, until the cheese is oozing and the bread is really extra-toasted.

Serve--let cool, enjoy. This is a snack I have found profoundly satisfying. I thought I might share.