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!
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?
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!
- 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 with Super Simple Special Sauce
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
Now that is my kind of sandwich!! and FTR….I’m a bologna lover too!
I am so glad you are admitting to loving bologna! I don’t feel quite so alone now 🙂
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
Thank you! Oh I blew it this weekend so have no choice but to get back on the wagon this week!
This sandwich is anything but boring!! And the “special sauce” pretty sure I could slather that on anything.
Thanks, Nicole 🙂 Same here – it’s so good!
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!
Oh good – I’m glad you found it helpful!
I hope you are having a fabulous birthday!
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! 😉
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 😉
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? 🙂
My dad used to call them Dagwood sandwiches, after the Dagwood and Blondie cartoons. The higher the sandwich the better!
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!
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!
that sounds like olive loaf – my mother bought it all the time. I haven;t eaten it in years
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
Maybe have just one for fun. Did you smoosh your sandwich too? 🙂
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.
Well then you picked a good man… anyone who smooshes their sandwiches is a winner in my book 🙂
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!
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 🙂
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.