Smoked Ham & Cheese Subs
with Romaine Wedge Salad & Creamy Italian Dressing
- Milk
- Eggs
- Soy
- Wheat
Whether you call them subs, hoagies, heroes, or grinders, these substantial sandwiches deliver on flavor! Smoked ham and mild Monterey Jack cheese are layered on a toasted baguette spread with creamy Italian dressing and topped with shredded lettuce and juicy tomato slices. A crisp wedge salad served alongside completes this quick and tasty dish.
Ingredients
1 unit
Baby Lettuce
8 ounce
Smoked Deli Ham
1.5 ounce
Italian Dressing
(Contains: Milk)
2 tablespoon
Mayonnaise
(Contains: Eggs)
¼ cup
Monterey Jack Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
1 unit
Tomato
2 unit
Demi-Baguette
(Contains: Soy, Wheat)
Not included in your delivery
teaspoon (tsp)
Salt
teaspoon (tsp)
Black Pepper
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
- Wash and dry produce.
- Trim and discard root end from lettuce; halve lettuce lengthwise (don't separate into leaves!). Finely slice half the lettuce crosswise; cut remaining lettuce into two wedges (four wedges for 4 servings). Thinly slice tomato into rounds.
- Halve and toast baguettes.
- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine mayonnaise and dressing.
- Fill toasted baguettes with Monterey Jack, ham, sliced lettuce, tomato rounds, and half the creamy dressing.
- Halve subs on a diagonal.
- Divide subs and lettuce wedges between plates. Drizzle wedges with remaining creamy dressing and serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Sep 2026- Flavor: The creamy Italian dressing-mayo combo was a pleasant surprise and really elevated the sandwich; a few found the overall flavor a little mild.
- Ease of prep: Super quick to pull together on a busy night, with minimal prep and easy cleanup.
- Suggestions: Melt the ham and cheese in the oven or on a panini press before adding the veggies for a warm, Firehouse-style result. Sliced cheese works better than shredded for a tidier sandwich, and a touch of mustard or hot sauce adds a nice kick.
- Portions: The side salad felt light to some — adding croutons, feta, or extra toppings makes it more satisfying alongside the sandwich.
Reviews from our home cooks
This was a delicious sandwich! The mayo, dressing combination was so good. I did make mine into a hot ham & cheese. Then added the veggies & dressing! Will definitely order this meal again!
Cutting up the lettuce was confusing took us a couple times to figure it out, but we did. LOL said to toast the bread but no suggestions or ideas on how to toast- we chose not to toast as would not fit in out toaster and didn't want turn on oven for just bread. It was fine not toasted.
It was good, better than I thought, not someone that buys Hormel products, lots of extra ingredients (tomato, lettuce, ham), it was surprisingly very tasty, mixing mayo and dressing worked well.
I really enjoyed it. But I feel like y'all need to double down on the "sandwich spread/salad dressing" Not even close on being able to dress both sandwich and the lettuce.
The lettuce wedge seemed kind of redundant since there is lettuce on the sandwich. I made it into a side salad with stuff I had a home to break up the boringness.
This was a great sub! I added onion & that made it even better! I wish it came with Dill pickle on the side!
Never thought to add mayo and Italian dressing together on a sandwich was amazing will have to do again
This was the best sandwich and salad I have had in a long time. I added croutons and shredded cheese. Thanks a million.
These were good. It was an easy dinner after a busy day. I ate the 2nd one for breakfast the next morning!
We thought it was going to be a pretty basic sandwich, but the sauce made this sandwich so good!
