It is rainy and chilly out today; I wanted something warmer than the cold turkey bologna sandwiches I had planned for my lunch. I don't usually eat processed lunch meat but was craving some bologna. Instead of cold bologna I frizzled it and put a few shreds of cheddar cheese on the slices before removing them from the pan, letting it melt just a bit. While sliding them onto my soft wheat bread I remembered my brother J taught me how to make the best fried bologna sandwiches.
When I was around 16 J and his wife had a little boy and I was helping take care of him because his wife had to have stitches and was told to take it easy and have someone come to help her. I stayed every day for the first two weeks, going home on the weekends. My brother cooked lunch since he worked nights and I made supper. He liked experimenting with different tastes and had developed a very tasty fried bologna sandwich.
He would cut a quarter into the slice of bologna before placing it in the skillet so it would not bubble up in the middle. While it was heating he would string celery stalks, julienne and place them on the bread. When the bologna was almost done he would sprinkle it with some chili powder, and then slide those slices of bologna onto our waiting bread and Yum it was delicious.
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bologna, melted cheese,and soft bread- reminds me of those ham and melted cheese on a 'pretzel' sandwiches they had in the school cafeteria sometimes. They must have been one of my favorites, as they are the only 'school lunch' I remember (liking)
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