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January 25, 2015

Weekly Menu Plan {Hero Sub Sandwich Recipe}

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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

  • Monday, January 26th: Cilantro Lime Tilapia Tacos from Skinnytaste
  • Tuesday, January 27th: Light Loaded Potato Soup from Handle the Heat
  • Wednesday, January 28th: Turkey Meatloaf Mini Muffins from the archives
  • Thursday, January 29th: Slow Cooker Sesame Ginger Chicken from Cooking Light
  • Friday, January 30th: Homemade Pizza using this crust recipe
  • Saturday, January 31st: Chicken with White Wine and Mushroom Sauce from Simply Delicious
  • Sunday, February 1st: Shrimp Fried Rice from Natasha’s Kitchen

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 minutes
Total Time 10 minutes 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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Filed Under: Dinner, Main Dish, Menu Plan, Previous Tagged With: bologna, Dinner, food, game day, hero, lunch, main dish, recipe, sandwich, sub

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Comments

  1. TidyMom says

    January 26, 2015 at 7:48 am

    Now that is my kind of sandwich!! and FTR….I’m a bologna lover too!

    • Kristen says

      January 26, 2015 at 3:35 pm

      I am so glad you are admitting to loving bologna! I don’t feel quite so alone now 🙂

  2. Kerry @ Kerry Cooks says

    January 26, 2015 at 8:35 am

    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

    • Kristen says

      January 26, 2015 at 3:35 pm

      Thank you! Oh I blew it this weekend so have no choice but to get back on the wagon this week!

  3. Nicole ~ Cooking for Keeps says

    January 26, 2015 at 10:18 am

    This sandwich is anything but boring!! And the “special sauce” pretty sure I could slather that on anything.

    • Kristen says

      January 26, 2015 at 3:35 pm

      Thanks, Nicole 🙂 Same here – it’s so good!

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

    January 26, 2015 at 10:35 am

    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!

    • Kristen says

      January 26, 2015 at 3:36 pm

      Oh good – I’m glad you found it helpful!
      I hope you are having a fabulous birthday!

  5. Natasha of Natashaskitchen.com says

    January 26, 2015 at 12:02 pm

    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

      January 26, 2015 at 3:36 pm

      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 😉

  6. Liz @ The Lemon Bowl says

    January 26, 2015 at 1:40 pm

    This is the ideal sandwich! It always reminds me of the big heros that Bill Cosby would eat not he Cosby Show!! Is that weird? 🙂

    • Kristen says

      January 26, 2015 at 3:37 pm

      My dad used to call them Dagwood sandwiches, after the Dagwood and Blondie cartoons. The higher the sandwich the better!

  7. Aggie says

    January 26, 2015 at 1:42 pm

    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!

    • Kristen says

      January 26, 2015 at 3:37 pm

      Oh see – we had something like mortadella with green olives in it but I don’t remember it being called that. It was sooooo good!

      • Nancy Long says

        January 26, 2015 at 4:15 pm

        that sounds like olive loaf – my mother bought it all the time. I haven;t eaten it in years

  8. Ruth E. says

    January 26, 2015 at 1:43 pm

    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

    • Kristen says

      January 26, 2015 at 3:38 pm

      Maybe have just one for fun. Did you smoosh your sandwich too? 🙂

  9. Stefanie @ Sarcastic Cooking says

    January 26, 2015 at 2:18 pm

    This looks so amazing. Can you bring me one for lunch???? My husband was soooo one of those kids with the smashed bologna or salami and cheese sandwich.

    • Kristen says

      January 26, 2015 at 3:38 pm

      Well then you picked a good man… anyone who smooshes their sandwiches is a winner in my book 🙂

  10. Peggy says

    January 26, 2015 at 9:08 pm

    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!

  11. Amy @ Thoroughly Nourished Life says

    January 27, 2015 at 5:59 pm

    I am a vego so this isn’t the sandwich for me, but I love making my boyfriend’s lunch for work everyday and I can just tell he would love it! A special treat for an everyday meal 🙂

  12. Carol at Wild Goose Tea says

    January 27, 2015 at 6:01 pm

    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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