Garlic Butter Italian Sausage Subs by Jen Hatmaker

I want these on football days with giant piles of salty chips and freezing ice-cold Shiner beer. Voilà! Perfect game-day food.

This is one of two featured recipes from Feed These People: Slam-Dunk Recipes for Your Crew by Jen Hatmaker. And don’t miss our Q&A with Jen and her recipe for Green Chile Chorizo Queso.

Photo: Mackenzie Smith Kelley

Excerpted with permission from Feed These People: Slam-Dunk Recipes for Your Crew by Jen Hatmaker:

These are so over-the-top fantastical. I already told you unironically that sandwiches are my favorite food, and this right here is why. This Italian sub is soft and melty and rich and saucy and toasty. It is gorgeous to look at. It smells divine. You know instantly you are about to be a delighted eater. I want these on football days with giant piles of salty chips and freezing ice-cold Shiner beer. Voilà! Perfect game-day food.

Fun fact: When my eldest son was in college, he texted me the following: “Do I have what I need to make rice?” (Bless.) I texted back, “All you really need is rice, twice that amount of liquid, and voilà!” He replied, “I don’t have any voilà. I don’t even know what that is.” Jesus, take the wheel.

Reader, look at the separate words in the title of this recipe: Garlic. Butter. Italian. Sausage. Subs. These should comprise the five levels of the new food pyramid. Remember how the bottom level used to be “grains” and we were instructed to eat at least eight servings a day? Nutritionists were like, “Greens? Half an ounce. Processed bread? A loaf a day.” This probably explains my sandwich obsession. I was brainwashed by the Wonder Bread lobby.