Lauren at GoLo Kitchen and I are doing a recipe swap today. She baked up and blogged about my yummy Citrus Cream Cheese Pull Apart Rolls and I’m featuring her favorite sandwich which she calls her Super Awesome Totally Stellarly Delicious California Club Sandwich. How could I resist a sandwich with a name like that? And it lives up to the title too. My daughter said this sandwich totally rocks.
Lauren has so many delicious recipes on her site that it was hard to pick just one but when I saw the California Club sandwich it was calling my name. We were headed to Newport Beach, California for a family vacation and it seemed like the perfect place to make a super awesome California Club sandwich even more super awesome with fresh California produce from the Huntington Beach Farmer’s Market.
We spent the day playing on Huntington Beach and then hit the Farmer’s Market for dinner and shopping. We loaded up on tons of amazingly sweet fresh fruits and fresh veggies to make our super awesome California Club sandwich.
The next day at our condo, we made the Super Awesome Totally Stellarly Delicious California Club Sandwiches and everyone was in sandwich heaven. There was a bit of guacamole left over after all the sandwiches were made, and even though we were stuffed from the huge, delicious sandwiches, we managed with the help of a few tortilla chips to finish off all of the creamy, delicious guacamole in one sitting too.
If you haven’t had guacamole on a Club sandwich you need to give it a try. Thanks Lauren for the recipe swap. I have a new favorite sandwich!
Lauren describes her guacamole as “Mexican heaven in your mouth” and I agree.
California Club Sandwich and Awards
Ingredients
- 2 pieces of good quality bread I bought cheese rolls from a local market
- mayonnaise
- Guacamole recipe below
- bacon and lots of it
- tomato slices
- deli turkey slices I used pepper turkey and black forest ham
- cheese is optional I used provolone
Guacamole
- 2 ripe Haas avocados
- 1 lime juiced
- 1 garlic clove finely minced (I used grated garlic)
- salt
- pepper
- 1 small roma tomato diced
- 2 tablespoons cilantro chopped (optional–I forgot to buy this)
Instructions
- Build a sandwich using the ingredients above.
- Guacamole
- Open ripe avocados, remove the seed and scoop out the flesh into a large bowl.
- Squeeze lime juice over avocados and mash slightly. Stir in remaining ingredients and serve!
- *I find it is best when you let the guacamole sit in the fridge 20-30 minutes to let the garlic work its magic
Awards
Two sweet bloggers recently gave me some lovely awards. Carol, of Songberries, award me the Versatile Blogger and the Beautiful Blogger awards. Carol is a fellow baker with lots of delicious recipes and giveaways on her site.
Claudia, Foodessa, awarded me the Circle of Friends Award. Claudia’s motto is that “Food should be… visually pleasing…tasty…delicious…memorable!” And the recipes she shares definitely are.
Thanks ladies for the awards. I feel very honored that you enjoy my blog and thought of me for these awards. The best thing about blogging is the wonderful friendships I’ve made with other bloggers worldwide. Food bloggers really are the nicest people and definitely make me happy!
I am passing these awards on to my wonderful circle of blogging friends. Feel free to copy and paste these award badges on your blog and list the Top 10 things that make you happy. Also be sure and stop by Songberries and Foodessa and check out there delicious blogs
thruthebugsonmywindshield
Congrats! And what a great sandwich! Must put on my lunch menu ASAP!!!
Barbara @ moderncomfortfood
Your blog is such a rich source of excellent summer sandwich recipes. First, your wonderful chipotle burger and now this delicious twist on the club sandwich. Both are on my definitely-must-make list. Many thanks for sharing!
Sophie
This filled sanwich with the bacon & guacamole looks so tasty & fantastic too!
MMMMMMMMM,…!!!
Congrats for your many awards!! Yeah!
Cakelaw
Yum! That sandwich does look stellarly delicious.
Maris (In Good Taste)
Looks amazing! I love anything with avocados. Yummm.
Alison Lewis
This looks great! I 'm so glad I came across your site!
Sarah, Maison Cupcake
I like the sound of blogging recipe swap, kind of like a guest post isn't it? Well done on the awards, very well deserved!
ps for months I have imagined that your surname was "Bakes" so I had to do a double take on my facebook page!!! Thanks for "liking" me!
The Blonde Duck
I love CLUB sandwiches, and I love Guacamole even more! I would die happy eating this!
Anncoo
This is really awesome and congratulations on the awards!
Amanda
I love Newport Beach, we used to go there a lot when we lived in Vegas. It's a bit too far from Wisconsin though! LOL The sandwich looks delish!
Patty
Goodness gracious!! That is my kind of sandwich! I recently discovered the delectable pleasures of adding guacamole to my sandwiches – I now put it in my egg and cheese breakfast sandwiches! Delish! Thanks for sharing and congrats on your awards!
Cristie
How nice to introduced to a new blogger! This sandwich sounds delicious, some of my favorite ingredients and perfect for a summer meal.
grace
Aw, congratulations on the awards 🙂
That sandwich does looks like it would live up to it's name!
sweetlife
great club, love the bread..congrats on your awards..
sweetlife
Sue Sparks
I KNEW it would include avocados! YUM! I'll have to try this sandwich for sure! A meal in itself!
Enjoy your vacation(sounds like you are)!
Huntington Beach was the beach of my childhood…many memories! 🙂
Lynda
Wow, I love the looks of this sandwich! I also would love to visit that farmer's market.
Have a great time Barbara.
Barbara
You're right, Barbara! Who could resist a name like that? 🙂
And those cheese rolls…YUM. That would certainly add another layer of flavor to this super sandwich.
Congrats on all the awards….you deserve them all!
marla {family fresh cooking}
So glad to hear you had a great trip to soCal! I live near Newport Beach & just love it out here. Your club sandwich looks wonderful….we enjoy lots of guac here too. xo
shaz
Love the snaps of the market and the holidaying sandwich. Bet it tasted extra super tasty because you were on holiday too. I'm a big fan of avocados on toast, so guacomole on sandwich is definitely a winner 🙂
Foodessa
Barbara…I can bet that if my Hubby had seen that amazing looking club with his favourite provolone…paired with a side of guacamole…and served in that setting……I wouldn't be the least surprised if he'd exchange you and I for the day ;o))
You derserve all these awards and more…your dedication is very appreciated.
Thanks for saying such nice things about mine…especially since we've known each others blogs for such a short time.
Here's to enjoying all our furture goodies togther.
Flavourful wishes,
Claudia