As I’ve worked on this recent series about recreating restaurant favorites at home, I’ve landed some delicious victories. The mission of making great burritos or pizza from scratch appeals to my perfectionist side, and the tweaking needed to get to the best recipes excites my inner nerd. The best recipes, in turn, taste great. But that doesn’t mean that every formula I’ve deduced in the process is ideal for cooking right here, right now. Many are better as weekend projects.
But when I went to master the cheesesteak, I found a triumph of another nature: a meal that requires four ingredients and fewer than 15 minutes to make. In retrospect, that clicks: the cheesesteak is a sandwich invented by Philadelphia street vendors, who can grill you a fresh sandwich without a kitchen and in almost no time. That means if you’re not in Philly, you can delight in a homemade cheesesteak that’s no big deal to recreate - so long as you’re not too righteous about the right type of hoagie roll. Read the full piece over at First We Feast.
