Mini Sandwiches, White Bread

Operating under the assumption that "anything mini is cute," and hungry from an afternoon of installing fences to fortify my garden against idiots who would plod across it in their boots, I sat down to make some miniature cheddar and jalapeno sandwiches with the miniature pain de mie I'd made from scrap dough earlier in the week.  As the ever popular Julia says about pain de mie, it's "essential for professional-looking sandwiches," and these mini sandwiches, apart from their default cute status, are definitely professional-looking.  At least to me they are.  

Notice the dime and the tiny blue rubber band.  I included them to establish scale.  Unfortunately, as is always the case with these blogs, it is impossible to establish flavor with a snapshot.  On the other hand, you can always take my word.  

 notice: the bread is buttered

These mini sandwiches were definitely not mini in flavor.  Riffing on the cheese and pickle sandwich, I thinly sliced some creamy cheddar and chopped up some pickled jalapenos.  Wow!  What pizzazz those peppers added to this classic sarnie!  I'm serious, kiddos, these puppies were delicious.  Sadly, unless you're willing and able to make pain de mie at home, your options for having one of these babies are quite limited.  You can hunt around all you want, but you will probably not find bread like this anywhere.  The popularity of this type of sandwich bread has been quashed by the California-bred, minimum eighteen-grain Healthy Lifestyle Police.  Bah on them and bah on the entire west coast.  Let them take their dense, spelt-heavy sourdoughs and fall into the ocean and live among the mollusks, the ocean trench bacteria, and the one-eyed angler fish.  That's what I say, and that's what Julia would say, too, if she were still alive.