Sausage Grinder

Ingredients:

• 2-4 large spoons of Tomato sauce

• 1 Hot Italian sausage; store-bought is just fine

• 1 sausage roll or hoagie roll; again, store-bought works fine!

• 1 handful of low-moisture shredded mozzarella cheese

• 1-2 tablespoons of parmesan cheese

• 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil

Directions:

• Set oven to broil.

• Place a frying pan on the stove over medium heat.  

• Add one tablespoon of olive oil to the pan.

• When oil is shimmering, add sausage.  Cover pan and cook sausage on one side for about 5 minutes

• Lift the cover and turn the sausage.  Cover the pan again and cook the sausage for another 5 minutes or until the sausage's internal temperature reaches 165 degrees F.  Remove sausage from the heat and set aside.

• Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil 

• Place an open sausage roll on the baking sheet and spread the remaining olive oil on the inside of the roll.

• Sprinkle a little mozzarella cheese on the roll and place the roll and baking sheet in the oven for about 1 minute until the cheese melts but the roll is not overly brown.

• Pull the roll from the oven.

• Cut sausage into four long strips (basically quarter the sausage)

• Spread some tomato sauce on the open roll

• Add some mozzarella cheese on top of the sauce

• Add sausage strips and top the sausage with more tomato sauce, mozzarella cheese, and parmesan cheese

• Place the roll back under the broiler for 1-2 minutes until the cheese melts and the roll gets nicely browned.

• Remove from broiler, plate it, and eat it!!