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Ham & Swiss Sliders

ham & Swiss Sliders 4

This recipe from my cookbook is the one that Susie uses for her ham rolls. If you are planning on fixing just one appetizer for Super Bowl viewing, this one will get you a win-win! Made with King’s Hawaiian Rolls and seasoned with mustard, poppy seed, Worcestershire, and melted butter, these delectable slider sandwiches have the best of both worlds going on: ham and Swiss cheese, and a tangy sauce poured over for spiced flavor. These go down so easy that your gang might forget about the chips and dip! Serve warm with something really cold to drink.  Put out a few bowls of spiced pretzels too if you have them.  That recipe is here on my blog.

I halved this recipe also today but if you are having several people in for the game you will want to make 24 rolls. They will be all be eaten and appreciated I assure you.  Let the Big Game begin, y’all!

Ham & Swiss Sliders

24 slices of deli honey ham
6 slices of Swiss cheese, cut into fourths
1 T. poppy seeds
1-1/2 T. Dijon mustard
1/2 cups butter melted
2 T. Worcestershire sauce
2 packages (12 pc.) King’s Original Hawaiian Sweet Dinner Rolls

Directions  Preheat oven to 350.  Slice through rolls as one large piece. Place a slice or two of ham and a slice of Swiss cheese on bottom of each roll. Replace the top of the rolls and bunch them closely together into a baking dish. Prepare the sauce by combining the poppy seeds, mustard, butter, and the Worcestershire; whisk well, and microwave mixture until hot.  Pour sauce over the rolls, covering just the tops.  Cover with foil and let sit for 10 minutes.

Bake for 20 minutes or until cheese is melted. Uncover and cook for additional 2 minutes until tops are slightly browned and crisp.  Serve warm from the oven.

 

Copper Penny Carrots

Copper Penny Carrots

I associate this dish with friendship because as years pass, the best friendships become sweeter and more meaningful. For the past ten years, I have hosted a group of my closest high school friends to a dinner party in mid-January. “The Class of ’67 & Friends Gala” is now a tradition and the evening passes with much merriment as we enjoy a hearty meal prepared at my house along with many appetizers and desserts shared by the ladies. This particular gathering is our time to celebrate and toast a happy new year and thoroughly enjoy the easy camaraderie long friendships entertain. My dinner party menu for this event varies only slightly each year with menu choices revolving around dishes easily prepared the day before; doing so provides more visiting time and less hubbub once we gather. You will like this dish both because it is tasty and because people don’t eat large servings of it so you will have enough carrots for several meals. The marinade is a basic sweet-sour mixture using canned tomato soup as a base with vinegar and sugar added; the sauce, spiced with ground mustard, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper, infuses the carrots with tangy flavor akin to many relishes.

Added bonus for this dish(!) is that the flavor of the dish mellows as it sits. And that is probably why the dish brings to mind friendships. Both only get better with time. The yellowed magazine recipe page in my files, dated September 1977, reminds me that this dish also has stood the test of time. If you and your family like carrots, this is a keeper for you particularly.

Copper Penny Carrots

Ingredients

3 lbs. young slender carrots, peeled, sliced in thin rounds

For the marinade

1-(10 oz.) can tomato soup
3/4 cup vinegar
1/2 cup cooking oil
1 cup sugar
1 tsp. dry mustard
1 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
1/4 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper

Directions Peel and slice the carrots then boil them with water to cover in a large sauce pot for 15 minutes or until just fork tender but still crisp. Drain well then place them in large glass mixing bowl. Prepare the marinade by bringing remaining ingredients to a boil, stirring until sugar dissolves. Boil 5 minutes, low. Pour the hot marinade over carrots and stir to coat well. Chill in fridge overnight. This dish lasts a week plus in the fridge if not eaten in one sitting; just stir well before serving again to blend the dressing.