Put the cucumber slices into a bowl and pour over the hot vinegar mixture ... mustard, pastrami, cheese and pickled cucumber. Finish each sandwich with a piece of bread. Wrap each sandwich ...

Once you prepare the pastrami, slice it against the grain before assembling your sandwich. This is a hot pastrami sandwich, so I recommend making it right after making the pastrami, or heating it ...

G iven that pastrami sandwiches and Jewish delis basically go hand in hand, it's not surprising that the word "pastrami" has Yiddish roots. The Yiddish "pastrame” is partly of Romanian origin ...