Meatball Sub Sandiwch

This is a another super quick and easy meal. You can choose to use frozen meatballs or your own. Meatballs really are easy to make, but if you don't love handling raw meat or just taking the extra step go ahead and use your favorite frozen meatballs. Enjoy!


1 lb ground beef
1 egg
salt and pepper
garlic powder
very full 1/2 c. Italian seasoned bread crumbs ( if you don't have these just use regular or make your own breadcrumbs and add a little Italian seasoning, parsley, garlic salt, parmesan cheese, or any other seasoning you want)
jar of your favorite spaghetti sauce
Mozarella cheese
hoagie buns

In a medium bowl lightly beat your egg , then add your seasonings and bread crumbs. Crumble your ground beef over mixture and mix it all in. With a large cookie scoop, scoop out balls of meat mixture and then slightly mold to form a ball. At this point you can either bake your meatballs or cook on the stove top. I choose to bake them at 400 for about 12 minutes. I find it much easier and I don't have to sit and baby sit them on the stove. Put meatballs in a medium size skillet and pour spaghetti sauce over and heat until simmering. While meatballs are heating through get out the hoagie buns. A trick I use is to cut some of the middle of the bottom bun making a well to stick your meatballs. Butter your buns (lol) and toast in a toaster oven or your hot oven. Fill your well with meatballs and top with mozarella..and yummm!!!

makes about 6 sandwiches if serving little kids just cut the meatballs in half:)

Tangy Barbecue Chicken

This is another quick and easy crock pot recipe. This recipe was actually suggested to go over a baked potato, but I chose to make it a sandwich and I'm sure there's plenty of other ways to eat it as well. I hope you enjoy this super easy twist on barbecue chicken.

4-5 chicken breasts

12 oz bottle barbecue sauce (I use Famous Dave's)

1/2 c. Italian dressing or anything similar I used a sundried tomato dressing and it turned out great

1/4 c. brown sugar

2 T. worcestershire sauce

Combine barbecue sauce, dressing, brown sugar, and worcestershire and pour over chicken in crock pot. Cook on low for 6-8 hours of high for 3-4. I threw my chicken in frozen and cooked on low for about 8 hours. I cut this recipe in half and had enough for about 6 sandwiches.

Hula Sandwiches

Friday night has become kind of a sandwich night at my house. They're easy to make and easy to clean up which makes for a perfect weekend meal. I wasn't too sure about this sandwich, I'm not a huge ham sandwich kind of person usually, but if you add a little bbq sauce and pineapple I'm in. There's not much to making these, definitely not rocket science, but it works for a quick weekend meal instead of eating out which is what we use to do. So if your looking for a new sandwich to try this one is worth giving a shot.

plain bagels
deli sliced ham (1/2 lb will do about 4 sandwiches)
pineapple rings
bbq sauce ( I use Famous Dave's Honey BBQ)
swiss cheese

In the same order as listed layer ing. on bagel. Wrap in tin foil and bake at 375 for 15 min. I even toasted mine a tiny bit before just so it wouldn't be soggy but I don't think I needed to as it toasted a little in the oven.

FYI this is another recipe I got from realmomkitchen.com