MARINATED HAM & SWISS BUNS APPETIZER

Steps:

• Line two 9 x 13-inch baking pans with non-stick foil or butter traditional pans.
• To prepare marinade, saute minced sweet onion in butter over low heat until onion is soft and translucent.
• Add poppy seeds, garlic powder, Worcestershire sauce, mustard, and brown sugar.
• Stir until brown sugar is melted into the sauce.
• Remove from heat and stir in parsley.
• Set marinade aside.
• Slice the buns in half.
• Spread bottoms of buns with a thin layer of horseradish mayonnaise.
• Fold ham slices to fit the bottom of each bun.
• Repeat with Swiss cheese slices, folding to fit buns.
• Replace bun tops.
• Place ham and cheese buns into prepared baking pans.
• Pour marinade evenly over both pans of buns.
• Cover tightly with foil. Refrigerate overnight.
• Preheat oven to 350°F
• Bake marinated buns covered for 25 minutes.
• Remove foil and bake an additional 10 minutes.
• Notes: Use pre-baked dinner rolls.
• If you make your own yeast dinner rolls, all the better.
• If you're on a budget, adjust this method to use large yeast hot dog rolls, cut into thirds (you may need to adjust the baking time).
• Horseradish mayonnaise is easy to make at home, but there are decent commercial varieties to use as a shortcut.
• You can use regular mayonnaise if you need to avoid horseradish.
• For the ham, I used a rosemary sun-dried tomato deli ham, but feel free to use your favorite.
• Just be sure it is sliced very thin and use a high-grade, low-moisture ham for best results.
• Yield: 24 appetizer servings.