The Best Show You're Not Watching

Since we've been blogging recently about favorite shows/movies, I thought I'd continue the trend and tell you about a wonderful show I watch–one I suspect you're not watching, but should.  It's called Sandwich King and it airs on the Food Network on Sunday mornings at 11am (go ahead and set your DVR right now–I'll wait.  Seriously–go do it now )

The premise of the show started out as the cute tagline: make any sandwich into a meal and any meal into a sandwich.  Now the tagline is the equally clever: life is better between two pieces of bread.  Besdies the fact that sandwiches do indeed make great meals, what makes this show so great is the host–Jeff Mauro. 

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Jeff Mauro, aka The Sandwich King, in his Food Network show kitchen

In 2011 Jeff won Season 7 of Food Network Star and Sandwich King debuted on the network last August.  The DH and I were instant fans of Jeff's because he is just so darn likable!  He has an adorable family (wife and son) who have been featured on his show (as well as his dad, who's a hoot!).  Jeff has a great sense of humor and is always joking around which makes the show lots of fun. 

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Jeff is goofy and charming. (images from Food Network website)

Plus his recipes and ideas are really cool.  He's from Chicago and each week he features a one of his favorite places to eat in the city.  He then turns that meal into a sandwich in his own kitchen, giving it his special Sandwich King twist.  We've already tried out his meatball sub (fabulous!) as well as several others and they've all been hits.  On last week's episode he made oven baked onion rings that made our mouths water–we'll be trying those babies out this weekend.  For more info on Jeff and his show and his recipes, check out foodnetwork.com.  And seriously DVR his show–he makes sandwiches more fun than you ever thought they could be.

Have you ever seen Sandwich King?  Do you enjoy watching cooking shows?  Which ones?  What's your favorite thing to cook?  And hey–if there's a recipe you'd like to share–we'd love to have it!

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