Italian Grinder

Whenever I pop up to Medford, OR for a shopping trip (no sales tax!) I always plan my stops around a visit to a little, and I mean little, sandwich joint called Luigi's. They make this awesome sandwich they call the Garbage Grinder. They come in 3 sizes and I can barely get through the small one, though I ate a medium once and thought I was going to die. It's an Italian sandwich with ham, salami, cheese, peppers, and onions that is run through a broiler. It's a crunchy, melty, savory, sweet and salty, peppery flavor extravaganza.

Anyway, we haven't been there in a while, but I've been jonesing for a grinder and decided I'd try my hand at making one. I scrolled through Luigi's Yelp pics and found one of their menu board listing the ingredients, gathered everything up, summoned all of my considerable memory power, and......uh.....what was I talking about....... oh yeah, made a sandwich. The result was pretty darned close to what Luigi's makes and the wife and I really enjoyed them. She said my version was better, but I think she's buttering me up for something and I'm waiting for that shoe to drop.

Here's a list of the ingredients used followed by the obligatory pics:

Soft hoagie roll
Marinara sauce
2 slices of deli ham
2 slices of Genoa salami
4 slices of block mozzarella
2 slices of provolone
Dill pickle chips to taste
Jalapeno chips to taste
Sliced sweet onion to taste
Sliced black olives

Assemble, place on a cookie sheet, broil on high until the cheese melts and the edges of the meat start to caramelize.

Thers's a lot more you can add to this like mushrooms, green or red bell pepper, Italian sausage, etc.

The jones was sufficiently suffonsified.

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