Recipe Test: Roasted Vegetable Sandwich / Side of Parmesan Potatoes

Credit:

- Sandwich: culinary.net - click here for original recipe

- Potatoes: favfamilyrecipes.com - click here for original recipe

SANDWICH INGREDIENTS:

• Whole wheat bread
• Eggplant
• Zucchini
• Tomato
• Pesto
• Mozzarella
• Butter
• Mozzarella (fresh!)

POTATO INGREDIENTS: 

• Potatoes
• Butter
• Parmesan cheese
• Garlic powder or salt

This one took a while because first I had to roast the vegetables and then make the potatoes.  In hindsight I wouldn't put these two recipes together again - I was thinking the potatoes would be more like home fries / wedges.   Both recipes on their own are pretty easy.  

The end result of the sandwich is awful damn cute.  Look at those pretty stripes of color!

The bread is a brand from Whole Foods that only has very minimal ingredients.

Here's my sandwich cut in half so you can see the ingredients.  I went heavy on pesto because I love it.  I used the pesto recipe from 100 Days of Real Food.   The sandwich was AWESOME!!!  Definitely worth the effort of roasting the veggies.  At one bite I immediately thought "this is restaurant sandwich good!" which is funny because really shouldn't food made at home taste better than restaurant food?  

The potatoes were okay but they just didn't go with the sandwich in terms of flavor.  Too much butter in the recipe caused them to be really greasy and slimy.  I only ate one and threw the rest in with the leftovers.  The sandwich was filling enough on it's own for my dinner.  I threw in a glass of grapefruit, orange & lime juice for the vitamin C since I'm still fighting this bug so the potatoes tipped it into just being too much.  

Hubby approved of the sandwich too!  Definitely will make again!