[PugMom]

Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby

Yes it's boiled. And then you slice it wafer-thin. And THEN you grill it on a flat grilling pan on the stove, until it starts getting crispy around the edges. Then you bunch it up, toss swiss cheese on top and slide it off the pan when the cheese just starts to melt, onto a GRILLED buttered piece of rye bread, toss some sliced raw red onion on that, then top it with another buttered piece of rye bread. Then you flip that bad boy over back onto the grill to grill that second piece of bread, smushing it down so that it'll fit in your mouth when you take a bite and so that the cheese melting from the heat of the smushing makes the bread, onions, and meat all get "glued" together. No mustard. Just eat.

It's called a Pastrami Special and it was the specialty of a diner my dad used to take us to when we lived in Hamden, CT.

i thought that sounded familiar. i worked with a veterinarian who was from hamden, she raved about the pastrami