What are you having for lunch?

What are you having for lunch? We're having sandwiches!

We are two active, healthy guys who work in an office and like to eat well. We don't like to eat out everyday - its not healthy, it takes too long, and it's too expensive. We like to shop once a week for what we need. We try to keep the cost per meal at around $5. We're typically limited to what we can buy at a local grocery. We take less than an hour for lunch. We're limited to resources and utensils found in our office break room.

Within these limitations we've been making gourmet sandwiches in our break room and getting lots of compliments. It's time to share with the world...

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Italian Sausage Sandwiches

Not every think we make is delicious. Sometimes it just doesn't turn out. Sometimes we have a pretty good idea, but it needs to go through a number of attempts before we get a good product. Sometimes you also have to try something crazy to make a break through towards something great.

This week we tried Spicy Italian Sausage Sandwiches - right at the beginning of our Company's "100 days of wellness" campaign. We used some "healthy" sausages from Harmon's (our local grocer). They are very lean, which was probably part of the problem. They were probably too lean. We grilled them on the George Forman grill - it was very easy. We "grilled" onions and peppers in the microwave and they actually turned out better than we thought. You can easily cook a pepper in about 2 minutes in the microwave. We had some whole wheat brat rolls We also had some left over giardiniera that we put on top. The first day we tried with some dijon mustard. Big Mistake!

Overall I liked it OK, but I didn't love it. It needs some refinement. I think it brats would have been better. For the Spicy Italian, we needed some different toppings. I typically just do brats & sauerkraut.

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