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Welcome to the new Lobel’s Culinary Club.

In the years since we launched our Web site and online butcher shop, the Lobel’s Culinary Club has become the cornerstone of our communications with our customers old and new. Our e-mails span the latest news about products and promotions to help you plan peak dining experiences for family meals, special events, and casual entertaining.

A fundamental part of the Culinary Club content comes from our unique perspective as butchers on meat handling and preparation. And while there are many recipes to share, we want to help you go beyond specific recipes to a wider world of in-depth explorations of cooking techniques. When you understand the fundamentals, you are free to invent your own culinary masterpieces.

We believe the more you know about preparing the finest meat money can buy, the more you will enjoy serving it to your family and friends.

With the launch of our expanded Culinary Club, we’ve created a living archive of knowledge that is gleaned from past e-mails and will grow with future e-mails.

Within the Culinary Club, we hope you’ll find numerous and useful resources to enhance your confidence in preparing the finest and freshest meats available, and ensure your absolute delight with the results.

For your dining pleasure,

lobels Signature

Stanley, David, Mark, and Evan Lobel

Lobel Family at the Carving Station

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August is National Sandwich & Panini Month!

On August 19,2012 In holidays , recipes & techniques , beef , pork , bacon , sandwiches

We love all the crazy national food holidays. It gives us a chance to talk with our fans and customers about a variety of foods, from the unique and odd to the every day and traditional. This month it’s National Sandwich Month and National Panini Month. So we put our culinary thinking caps on and put together this guide to all things sandwich. We hope you’re hungry because we’ve gone way beyond PB&J!

Grilled Chicken Kabob Sandwich

The Earl of Sandwich

The concept of the sandwich is so simple: something between two pieces of bread. In essence, it’s a portable meal; no utensils required.

According to Larousse Gastronomique, sandwiches first came about because John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, was so into his gambling that he would order cold meat between two slices of bread and have it delivered to his gambling table rather than leave the table to eat. Although the concept of meat between two pieces of bread pre-dates the earl’s predilections, the eponymous term came into use in the early 19th century.

Although it seems a simple concept, when you consider all the various combinations available, the humble sandwich provides boundless opportunities for mixing, matching, and melding different ingredients. Slices of bread or a roll? Wheat, Italian, rye, pumpernickel, sourdough, multigrain? Turkey, roast beef, ham, pastrami, corned beef? Hot or cold? And then there’s the cheese and the condiments and the vegetables…

Sandwich Profiles

Of course, the typical idea we all have of a sandwich is meat and cheese between two slices of bread. But if you let your mind wander a minute, you might find yourself daydreaming about a filled roll, such as a po’ boy, a submarine sandwich, or a lobster roll. There are also multi-layered sandwiches, such as clubs. Open-faced sandwiches, such as Leon’s Great Open-Faced Steak Sandwich. And don’t forget cooked sandwiches, such as pressed panini, melts, and grilled cheese.

Muffaletta

Muffaletta is a classic American sandwich that has its roots in New Orleans. Some say the only place to have a Muffaletta is at Central Grocery on Decatur Street (where you’ll find it sold under the spelling variation Muffuletta). The key ingredients are Italian cold cuts such as salami and ham, provolone, and olive salad on a sesame seed-topped Italian bread roll. Some variations might include Swiss cheese, pepperoni, capicola, or (specifically) Genoa salami.

Grilled Cheese

Grilled cheese seems so simple, but when we went looking for sandwich inspiration on Pinterest, we couldn’t believe all the incredible, sophisticated variations we found on this kid-associated classic. Well beyond white bread and American cheese, we found photos of such unique concoctions as jalapeno popper grilled cheese, which features whole jalapenos, shredded jack and cheddar cheese, cream cheese, and crumbled tortilla chips (to simulate the popper breading). We also found a photo of a fusion of two classic Americana hot sandwiches: sloppy Joe grilled cheese.

We also discovered that grilled cheese has a great affinity for bacon. (But really, what doesn’t?) Some notable variations are grilled cheese with bacon and maple mustard; bacon, pear, and raspberry grilled Muenster cheese; garlic-rubbed grilled cheese with bacon and tomatoes; and broccoli, bacon, and mustard seed and ale cheddar cheese.

Check out our Great Sandwiches board on Pinterest for more ooey-gooey inspiration.

Cubano

A Cuban sandwich, or Cubano, is a mouth-watering experience of ham, roast pork, Swiss cheese, dill pickle, and mustard all melted and mingled together when the whole thing is pressed in a hot sandwich press. We have a recipe for this Miami-area favorite that uses our Smoked Spiral-Cut Ham, Boneless Center-Cut Berkshire Pork Roast, and Tracklements Horseradish Mustard. We originally published it as part of a Super Sunday menu, but we think it’s great any time of the year, in any part of the country! Get the recipe.

Club

A club sandwich is a multi-layered sandwich that uses three slices of bread. The most common iteration is a turkey club made with bacon, lettuce, tomato, and mayonnaise. But as with any other type of sandwich, the variations are as limitless as your imagination.  Martha Stewart has a recipe for a Southwestern Turkey Club, for example, that includes fresh mashed avocado with lime juice and pickled jalapenos. Or you can try a Cobb Club Sandwich with grilled chicken, bacon, blue cheese, and avocado. Take a departure from poultry with a Roasted Pork Club with Scallion Mayonnaise.

BLT

Bacon. Need we say more?

Well, we will anyway. The BLT is another classic, and variations can include toasted or not, various flavors and varieties of bacon, flavored mayonnaise, and varieties of lettuces and tomatoes. In our search for BLT inspiration, we found a few interesting takes on this sandwich, such as a three-way sandwich mash-up called a chicken parmesan BLT hero. Our favorite was a southern-inspired take on the “T” in BLT that used fried green tomatoes rather than ripe, red slices.

Reuben

Although the origins of this sandwich are debatable, its deliciousness factor is not. A Reuben is corned beef piled on rye bread with sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, and Russian dressing. The whole thing is then toasted, grilled, or pressed and served warm. Of course, we think the best Reuben is made with our USDA Prime Corned Beef Brisket, the most incredible corned beef we’ve ever tasted.

Filled Sandwiches

Filled sandwiches are essentially sandwiches served on a roll, though they also encompass such favorites as stromboli. Depending on where you live, filled sandwiches might be called heroes, submarines, or hoagies.

Aside from what they’re called, further geographic variations exist. A Philadelphia favorite bears the city’s name: Philly cheesesteak. This thinly sliced steak is smothered in melted cheese and sauteed onions and served on a hoagie roll. A po’ boy is a New Orleans filled sandwich typically featuring fried seafood—often shrimp—served on French baguette. From the Northeast comes the lobster roll, chopped lobster meat with mayonnaise served on a New England-style hot dog bun.

Steak Sandwich

Wrangler Steak Sandwich

Of course, at Lobel’s, we are partial to a simple, delicious steak sandwich that showcases the naturally occurring flavors of top-quality beef. That’s how we came up with the not-so-revolutionary concept of the steak sandwich we serve at Yankee Stadium—it’s just USDA prime dry-aged beef cooked to perfection and served in its own juices on an onion roll.

Of course, any incredible cut of beef can make an incredible sandwich. We recommend our USDA Prime Dry-Aged Minute Steaks or USDA Prime Tenderloin Steaks for a great sandwich. But skirt steak, flat irons, center-cut sirloin, and flank steak are also good choices. And for a non-steak beef sandwich, try boneless short ribs or smoked beef brisket.

Hungry?

Find more inspiration on our Great Sandwiches Pinterest board!

Great Sandwiches board on Pinterest

 

What’s your favorite type of sandwich? Do you get fancy when you make sandwiches or keep it simple? Do you prefer making your own sandwiches or getting them at a deli or restaurant? What’s the best restaurant or deli sandwich you’ve ever had?

 

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