Smoked sausage sandwich with beer-braised onions, #SeriousSandwich

Smoked sausage sandwich with beer-braised onions. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

One of the delights of cooking from Emeril Lagasse's newest cookbook, "Emeril's Kicked-Up Sandwiches," (Morrow, $24.99), is finding little extras along the way that will kick up sandwiches and help out around the kitchen. For example, the beer-braised onions on this Smoked Sausage Sandwich with Beer-Braised Onions. These little morsels of joy would be fantastic alongside any kind of meat or sausage, without without the bun. As for the sandwich, the Muenster cheese and stone-ground mustard in conjunction with the sausage and onions really stacks up the flavor.

Just like Emeril's Caprese Sandwich is a taste of summer, this hearty sandwich is a taste of fall, perfect for tailgating, or maybe picnics at the pumpkin patch.

Pumpkins. Lucy Mercer/A Cook and Her Books

 Look for more great stories and recipes from "Emeril's Kicked-Up Sandwiches" right here on A Cook and Her Books, or follow #SeriousSandwich on Twitter. You may also want to visit my fellow #SeriousSandwich bloggers, all 21 of them:

• 30A EATS
• Farmgirl Gourmet
• Food Hunter’s Guide
• Between Slices
• Big Dew the Firehouse Chef
• Chef R3llik
• Cooking in Stilettos
• Culicurious
• Family Foodie
• Kwistin’s Favorites
• Mangoes and Chutney
• Mario Cooks
• Maroc Mama
• My Cup of Creativitea
• My Royal Kitchen
• Pages Stuck Together
• Peanut Butter and Peppers
• Poet in the Pantry
• Rhubarb and Honey
• Solid Gold Eats

It's been an absolute pleasure reading these new-to-me blogs and cooking through Emeril's new cookbook!

This post is part of #SeriousSandwich, a blogalong sponsored by Morrow Books,
marking the publication of

Emeril’s Kicked-Up Sandwiches (Morrow, $24.99)

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Text and images copyright 2012, Lucy Mercer,

with the exception of the book cover; that belongs to Morrow Books.