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The Dine & Dish Weekly Menu Plan plus a great game day recipe for a Hero Sub Sandwich with super simple sauce! This recipe proves that sandwich night doesn’t have to be boring!

Hero Sub Sandwich recipe with super simple sauce. This is a great game day idea for a crowd! From dineanddish.net

Can we talk about bologna? We can? Good. I have to get something off my chest. So…I love bologna.

Bologna seems to fall into 3 categories. 1 – people who love it. 2 – people who hate it. 3 – people who just want to ask you “do you know what part of the pig bologna comes from?”. For the record, I don’t want to know, but thank you.

I don’t love bologna in an eat it every day kind of way. I love bologna in a nostalgic, sandwich from my childhood on Wonder bread and American cheese kind of way. I remember specific events that happened in my life and when I think back I was often holding a smooshed bologna and cheese sandwich on white bread in my hands. We even had a fried bologna and cheese type sandwich on our school lunch menu. Can you imagine Michelle Obama allowing that now?

Hero Sub Sandwich with a super simple special sauce from dineanddish.net

Anyway – the “recipe” I’m sharing today isn’t really about bologna, although I think a Hero Sub Sandwich isn’t complete without some really thinly sliced bologna. If you fall into category 2, then you could choose any combo of lunch meet you’d like. Ham, roast beef, turkey, salami, etc. The real secret to this sandwich is the super simple special sauce…stupidly simple but it turns a Hero Sub into more than just a sandwich. It’s a “Hey, look… I put some effort into this sandwich so I can feel good about serving it at our next game day party” kind of sandwich.  Sandwiches, my friends, don’t have to be boring!

You can see the recipe below our weekly menu plan for the week.

Now, on to the menu plan! Make sure to link to your menu or let me know what you are serving this week at your house. I can always use inspiration for future weeks!

Dine and Dish Weekly Menu Plan

Hero Sub Sandwich for game day from dineanddish.net

Hero Sub Sandwich recipe with super simple sauce. This is a great game day idea for a crowd! From dineanddish.net
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Hero Sub Sandwich with Super Simple Special Sauce

Sandwich night doesn't have to be boring! This sub sandwich is simple yet made extra special with a tasty simple sauce. Adapted from Food.com.
Course Main
Prep Time 10 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes
Servings 8 sandwiches
Author Dine & Dish

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup mayonnaise
  • 1/4 cup Italian salad dressing prepared
  • 1 teaspoon Sriracha or other hot sauce
  • 3 cups mixed salad greens
  • 1 loaf French bread cut in half lengthwise
  • 8 ounces thinly sliced bologna
  • 8 ounces sliced cooked turkey
  • 2 Roma tomatoes sliced thin
  • 6 slices American cheese
  • 1 medium green pepper thinly sliced

Instructions

  • Mix together the mayonnaise, Italian dressing and hot sauce.
  • Toss the salad greens with 1/4 of the prepared sauce.
  • Brush cut sides of bread with remaining dressing mixture.
  • Fill bread with cheese, meat, tomatoes, peppers, and lettuce.
  • Slice into 8 equal slices crosswise and serve.

Notes

Adapted from Food.com

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Comments

  2. Kerry @ Kerry Cooks says

    A great week of meals planned Kristen! So glad to see you’re still doing well on the healthier eating side of things! I totally think that there has to be homemade pizza in my life for me to eat healthy the rest of the time though

  4. kim kopp {the best is yet to come} says

    Love getting menu ideas like this…. Pinning this to use with next week’s menu. The Shrimp Fried Rice and Potato Soup are two sure bets. PS ~ Beautiful pics of your recipe…. Happy monday!

  5. Natasha of Natashaskitchen.com says

    I’m so excited to see my shrimp fried rice on your meal plan. Awesome!! 🙂 Thanks so much for sharing 🙂 That sub sandwich looks bomb. I wish I could eat deli meat but I’m only going to be prego for 6 more weeks and then I can eat all the sandwich meat I want! 😉

    • Kristen says

      I can’t wait to try your shrimp fried rice!
      And congrats on the soon to be baby! Giving up lunchmeat is well worth it when that’s your reward 😉

  7. Aggie says

    Bologna was introduced to me by a childhood friend, we would have fried bologna and egg sandwiches at her house after school. I have to say…I loved it. And bologna reminds me of an Italian deli meat I totally grew up on, mortadella. I think it’s actually quite similar except mortadella has green olives in it 🙂
    I’m a huge sub girl. It’s a craving I have pretty often. Your’s looks so so good…and I love the special sauce!

  8. Ruth E. says

    Thank you for bringing back some fun memories eating bologna sandwiches on soft Wonder bread…something I’ve not eaten in years. I think it’s time to relax my “healthy” diet and revisit a little eating fun…if only once a year

  10. Peggy says

    Bologna lover here. Same thing though…..not always, but when I want it, I want it! And my sammiches were always smooshed! Actually, truth be told, the day after Thanksgiving I go out and buy a brand new loaf of Wonder Bread because a left over turkey sandwich on Wonder Bread is pure Heaven!! And this sandwich sauce looks amazing. New addition to my Super Bowl menu!

  12. Carol at Wild Goose Tea says

    What an excellent idea. You know how you forget about some recipes. A giant sub sandwich to cut up
    for snacks—-duh. I like it. Thank you! And can’t forget the special sauce that makes this one delectable.

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