?> {"id":2244,"date":"2010-01-18T17:51:28","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2010-01-18T17:51:28","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T22:51:28","slug":"quick-french-dip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/2010\/01\/quick-french-dip\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick French Dip"},"content":{"rendered":"

After our Secret Santa dinner<\/a> we had tons of leftovers, including an entire 2lb cooked and uncut london broil. Josh and I don’t exactly understand restraint when we host dinners so we always go a tiny bit overboard in terms of the amount of food we get. The leftovers were good because I didn’t have to worry about what to bring for lunch the next two weeks, but I didn’t want to reheat the london broil since it’s a pretty tough cut of meat to begin with. I thought of slicing it up cold and laying it on top of a salad but that seemed a bit boring. Then I was struck with the idea of making a steak sandwich, specifically a french dip, so that the heat of the dipping broth would warm up the meat a bit without overcooking it.<\/p>\n

Josh picked up some bread from Amy’s Bread on his way home, a rustic loaf with a sturdy crust and caraway seeds. The texture of the loaf and crust were really nice but I wasn’t a fan of the caraway seeds. The bread held up well though against all the sandwich fillings and the dipping sauce.<\/p>\n

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Sliced london broil, caramelized onions, and melted swiss cheese on rustic bread<\/p><\/div>\n

To prepare the sandwich, I first sliced up a medium onion and caramelized it in a pan. Then I split the bread open lengthwise and placed a few slices of swiss cheese on each side. I melted the cheese under the broiler so that it was soft and just starting to brown, and the crust of the bread got a bit toasty. I placed thin slices of the london broil on one side and piled on the caramelized onions on the other side.<\/p>\n

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Constructed sandwich with extra caramelized onions on the side<\/p><\/div>\n

For the dipping sauce, I went the quick and easy route with Lipton’s french onion soup mix. Just follow the directions on the package. I boiled it down a bit so that the flavor would be more concentrated. The sandwich was really thick and hearty, and dipping it into the soup softened it up a bit and helped provide some extra flavor.<\/p>\n

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Lots of french dipping action<\/p><\/div>\n

I was actually really happy with how the quick french dip turned out. The key was to slice the london broil really thinly, so that it stayed tender. It was a great way to use up a lot of the leftover steak, and the sandwich was a nice mix of flavors and textures. It’s definitely something that I would make again, and maybe not even just with leftovers. It was quick and easy to make, and it turned out to be a tasty and filling dinner.<\/p>\n

Amy\u2019s Bread<\/em><\/a> (multiple locations)
\n672 9<\/em>th<\/em><\/sup> Ave. between 46<\/em>th<\/em><\/sup> and 47<\/em>th<\/em><\/sup> St.
\nNew York, NY<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After our Secret Santa dinner we had tons of leftovers, including an entire 2lb cooked and uncut london broil. Josh and I don’t exactly understand restraint when we host dinners so we always go a tiny bit overboard in terms of the amount of food we get. The leftovers were good because I didn’t have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[24,15],"tags":[7,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twofatbellies.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}