Bison Sausage & Cheese Steak Sandwiches

The header is of Madison's three ferrets (Mitchell, Roscoe, Lilly) and this in normal for them. I don't know how the Lilly is not being mashed.

Bev bought a bag of hoagie rolls and went about ways to use them and came up with two sandwiches over a few days.  The first one was grilled bison sausage which she purchased from Mother Earth Meats at The Market in Maryville.  Their beef is grass-fed and free of hormones and antibiotics and their sausage is hand made and I assume by them.  They have a farm in Sunbright, TN and may buy from other farmers as well.

We just grilled the sausage, split it lengthwise and top it with brown mustard and sautéed onions and peppers.

The second meal was a cheese steak sandwich – notice I didn’t say Philly Cheese Steak as I believe they can only be had in Philly using special bread and usually topped with Cheese Whiz (some offer provolone or white American) and fried onions as an option.  My introduction to the cheese steak came when we moved to South Jersey in the early 60”s (yea I know I’m a geezer).  It was on a great roll from the local Italian bakery and your two options were provolone cheese and fried onions, so I  grew up on authentic Bridgeton, NJ cheese steak because everyone in town made them the same way.

However, mine can only be called an authentic Almost Heaven South Cheese Steak for this meal, as the next one will likely be different.  I began by slicing some partially thawed strip steak (it was available from the freezer) sliced to a thickness of a quarter to half-dollar.

The cooking began by sautéing some onions and sweet peppers (from the freezer) and when they were about done I cooked the meat in another pan.

The rolls were nuked under a paper towel just to warm and soften so they could be sliced and opened up without breaking apart on the other side.  Then, they were lined across the unbroken side with sliced provolone cheese - nothing else will do here, especially not Cheese Whiz.  Next was the meat and finally the onions and peppers.

I thought mine was outstanding and Bev said it would have been even better using a screaming hot pan so the meat would get a little crust on it.  I have to agree with her but I was afraid of over cooking it and my goal was to have it pink in the middle – also a departure from both Philly and S. Jersey.

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