We eat sandwiches often for lunch.  When I have pastrami, I usually just eat a cold sandwich.  I decided I would have a hot pastrami the other day, and it just hit me that I could do this on the grill. 

Ingredients

• Wheat Bread
• Pastrami lunch meat sliced from the butcher
• 2 slices of Pepper cheese from the butcher
• Spicy musturd
• Pickled pepperoncinis sliced into 1/4 inch rings
• Butter

Place the pastrami directly on the hot grill to get it warm.  Cook it for a few minutes on each side.  Since it is already cooked, you are just warming it.  You could probably cook the pastrami on a grill pan, but make it a challenge not to lose your slices of pastrami between the grill grates.  Don’t mind the flame in the picture….it is from the drip pan juices from the beer butt chicken that I spilled the last time I cooked.  You gotta admit, it makes for a cool picture though.

Butter one side of each of the peices of bread.  Place the butter side down on the hot grill.  Place one slice of cheese on the bread and all of the pastrami on top of the cheese.  Place the pepperoncinis and the remaining slice of cheese on top of the pastrami and close the sandwich with the other slice of bread (butter side up).  Let the cheese melt a bit while you get the bread nice and toasty with some good grill marks.  Flip the sandwich over and get the other side all toasty too.

Take it off the grill, and spread on some spicey mustard to your taste.  Dress it up with a dill pickle and some cole slaw.  I really don’t like cole slaw, so, I just warmed up some leftover Rotini Alfredo (or whatever that stuff was last night) in the microwave. Yup, even GrillDude uses the microwave sometimes.

Vary the sandwich to your liking.  This is traditionally served on hot rye bread, but I really don’t like rye bread.  If we had sourdough bread on hand, I would probably use that more often.  Also, you can also use provalone cheese instead of spicey pepper cheese.  In fact, I would love to hear about your variations on hot pastrami.

And those wacky parents with kids who like music should know that Sandwiches are Beautiful.

-GrillDude