Baked Meat & Cheese Sandwiches

    Hello!

    Ever seen the baked ham & cheese sandwiches before? I have been seeing them on the world-wide-web for a long, long time, but just never got around to making them!

    Well, now I've gone and made them, and there's no going back! 

    So, hey, if you're going to a potluck and know the hosts, and know that you could use their oven once at the event....these make the best bring to a potluck food! 

   All the recipes I found called for Worcestershire sauce, which I've never owned and wasn't about to purchase, as well as poppy seeds. I suppose I could have gotten those, but it didn't seem essential. Oh, and you're supposed to use "King's Hawaiian Rolls", which if you live outside of Canada, you should apparently be able to find. Here in Canada? No such thing as this King and his rolls from Hawaii! : )  

   Let's be real though, this crazy delicious hot baked sandwich recipe isn't exactly rocket science, and there is lots of leeway! For instance, you can use whatever thin sliced meat you'd like & whatever kind of cheese, though a strong, sharp, or spicy cheese is the best (in my opinion)! 

Baked Meat & Cheese Sandwiches
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Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup butter
• 1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon mustard
• 2 Tbsp brown sugar
• Mustard & Mayonnaise (optional)
• 12 mini sandwich rolls
• Thin sliced meat (at least 12 pieces)
• Sliced cheese (at least 24 pieces)

Method:

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Prepare a baking pan with tin foil or parchment paper. Choose a pan that will fit the buns snuggly. If you don't have a pan to do that, make a false side using tin foil (as I did in the top right photo in the college below)
3. Put the butter, dijon mustard and brown sugar into a medium sized saucepan and warm up, stirring occasionally
4. While that mixture is warming, separate your buns, tops from bottoms (you don't need to separate each bun from each other), and place the bottoms into the pan
5. Now, top the bottoms (haha, that sounds weird!) with some mayonnaise (if using), then place half the cheese slices onto the bread
6. Place the meat slices onto the buns, making sure each bun has some meat, then top with remaining cheese
7. Spread or squirt some mustard (if using) onto the insides of the tops halves of the buns, then place the tops of the buns onto your giant assembled sandwich!
8. Pour the melted butter/mustard/sugar mixture onto the buns, trying to get it on every bun
9. Cover in tin foil and bake in pre-heated oven for 15 minutes, then remove foil & bake for an additional 10-15 minutes until the tops are golden brown and crispy! Yummy!!
10. Slice sandwiches apart and serve! 

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    These sandwiches are really simple to put together, but the results are faaab-u-lous! Seriously, you end up with a warm & soft sandwich, but with perfect crunchy tops and edges, as well as the crazy delicious taste from the butter/mustard/sugar mixture......mmmmmmmm......
 

   These fantastic sandwiches with a nice soup would be a perfectly delightful lunch with guests! Wouldn't you want to be invited to someones house with these?!?

   So, send this recipe to someone, and then super casual invite yourself over for a meal, then randomly mention how you soooo enjoy warm, baked sandwiches....and offer to bring the soup yourself  : )   

    I'm signing off now, it's family movie night and we're watching the 1930's production of "Peter Pan" and putting a dent into the Halloween candy we got last weekend! Hazaa!

   Have a great weekend!

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