Saturday, July 10, 2010

No Stove, No Oven and Not Even a Grill: Sub Sandwich


Even I, being someone who would rather cook than do almost anything else I can possibly imagine, occasionally enjoys an evening without the stove, oven or even grill.  The perfect "cooking night off" meal is a hearty but still artfully crafted submarine (grinder or hoagie, depending on your local terminology) sandwich.  Summer time is a particularly good time to visit a local farm stand and stack those magnificent local tomatoes between freshly baked soft rolls and pile on the freshest meats and cheeses.  Be creative,  mix it up with some different meats and even incorporate vegetables other than the standard lettuce, tomato an onion.  What a great way to showcase a patter of mixed grilled vegetables and a terrific use some of your leftover steak or chicken from last night's dinner.  

For mine, I admittedly did not take my own "be creative" advice but chose to go with the traditional ham, turkey and Genoa salami with smoked provolone cheese, yellow heirloom tomato vidalia onion, and crisp shredded lettuce.  No sandwich is complete, in my opinion, without mayonnaise and for special occasions such as this a sprinkle of oil and vinegar and a show of fresh grated Parmesan cheese.

Do you have a favorite "night off" no cook meal?  Please share, I'd love to hear. 

2 comments:

  1. wow that looks so good! I would love a hoagie right now!

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  2. Whoa I'm making a cook book right now because I want to have good recipes in there when I grow up and this is going to be in there!!! This is fab!!

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