The Most Amazing Sandwich – Turkey with Blue Cheese, Sweet Plum Compote and Some More

I am not being original, yet again, but I love 60’s. The Beatles almost got me killed because I swear that my parents were on the edge when I was listening to their songs each day for years. They used to love them as well, more, they introduced them to me, but at some point they ended up in a love-hate relationship. Well, Let it be. Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker. I spent many days and nights with them. These were mostly cassettes, but vinyls as well. I miss these nights when I was trying to understand each lyric and each word. There was no internet with google translator at the time, so I was sitting with a huge dictionary. In the end it helped me to improve my English a lot and it opened my eyes to many issues. It also gave me some crazy emotional ideas like cutting my banks in a middle of the night (yep, teenagers are slightly emotional). My parents had quite an adventure with me when I became a hippie in the age of hip hop. They did not approve and I did not approve their disapproval. Crazy days.

Musik gave me so much in my life. It still gives me a lot. It influences me, makes me happy when I’m sad, helps to understand. I’ve been a busy bee for the past few months, as you could notice on my blog, I didn’t write here so often. Last week I decided to go home and rest. Most probably because Tomasz was in Milan, Mia’s kindergarten had a 3 day break and I convinced myself that Mia hasn’t seen grandparents for far too long. The truth is that I needed to meet with my friends. I still have a few in Warsaw. A few very special people. So I packed and drove. I met with one of them, the other joined and I got all the crazy inspirations at once. I wanted to cook, taste, experiment. It’s been like I’ve just started blogging, all this excitement and possibilities. Joanna is very easy going so when I totally changed her meal plan for our evening, she didn’t mind. And we did what you can see today. And it was delicious! She had three of these sandwiches 😀 I left totally relaxed and so happy that I totally over tipped a taxi driver.

To make this story shorter and explain myself a bit, I came back Berlin after 2,5 day and I was like a newborn. The first thing I did was playing Joe Cocker song “With a little help from my friends”. Yet again, this text is so true. It’s all so easy, but we have a tendency to underestimate a power of friendship and good tunes.

Now fingers crossed that Tomasz and Mia won’t end up having a “love/hate” relationship with Joe Cocker, as the whole machine has started, yet again.

You will need for a plum compote:

• 300g plums,drilled
• 3 tbsp honey
• ½ cup orange juice
• 1 tsp corn starch

Start with a compote. Place drilled plums, honey and orange juice in a pot and cook over a medium heat for few minutes. When the plums start to soften, add corn stretch and mix with a wooden spoon. Let it cool down a bit.

You will need for sandwiches:

• 3 bread rolls
• 2 tbsp butter
• blue cheese
• 1 turkey breast
• ½ tsp dried thyme
• pinch of freshly ground pepper
• ½ tsp curry powder
• pinch of salt
• black sesame (optional)
• arugula or fresh mint

Cut bread rolls in half and brush with butter. Bake in 200*C for about 10 minutes, so it gets golden. Meantime heat a pan with a tablespoon of oil over a medium head. Cut the chicken breast in a small pieces, add spices – thyme, pepper, curry powder and salt. Mix well and fry. In the end add a bit of water to the pan so turkey won’t get dry.

Serve toasts with turkey, pieces of blue cheese, arugula or mint, plums and black sesame seeds.

Enjoy, Marta