What a year of panini-making it has been!  Whether Santa just brought you a new panini press this week or you’ve been grilling with me all year, I hope you’ll enjoy this little summary of my best panini of 2008.  And stay tuned in the new year for lots more fun with the panini grill [...]

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Can you believe these are lunch bags? How cute are they?!  Lunch boxes sure have come a long way from the Darth Vader and Dukes of Hazzard ones we had in elementary school.  Leave it to the master of Italian cooking, Mario Batali, to come up with insulated lunch bags that not only keep your [...]

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You guys have it easy. If you want to know a little more about me, you can always check out my profile or read through all the various personal anecdotes in my posts. But if I’d like to get to know the nice folks who stop by to browse through this lovely little [...]

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Here it is - the new and GREATLY IMPROVED Panini Happy!
What’s been improved? Well, nearly everything. Here are a few highlights:

Get to the recipes faster - It’s why you stopped by in the first place, right? Going forward, I’ll be a little more concise with my behind-the-scenes stories and include the recipe [...]

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I’m finally taking the plunge and moving Panini Happy over to Wordpress! It’s going to take some time (and some scary programming moments), but I promise it will all be worth it. In the meantime, there may be some formatting and link issues - please bear with me as I spruce everything up [...]

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For any of you on Twitter (or anyone who, as I was until just a few days ago, is still on the fence), I wanted to let you know that I recently joined! You can find me at http://www.twitter.com/PaniniKathy

I post little updates periodically - topics not quite worthy of an entire blog post, but [...]

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As Seen on TV Micro Grill
$29.99 at Linens ‘n Things

PROS: Fast, easy to use, convenient for the office, far superior to microwave alone
CONS: Mediocre crisping

It’s no secret that the microwave is the enemy of bread. In mere seconds, this otherwise ultra-timesaving contraption can transform the crispiest thin pizza crust or the airiest croissant into [...]

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“Bmmmm-bmmmm, bmmmm-bmmmm…Go shorty, it’s your birthday…” Even people who don’t like rap love this song. 50 Cent’s “In Da Club” was the inspiration for my latest recipe - a club sandwich, grilled panini-style. WHYYYY, pray tell?? I’m participating in my first blog event! Elly Says Opa is hosting an event called “Eat to the Beat!” [...]

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When I started this blog, I intended to focus it pretty tightly on panini - working out new recipes, discovering new techniques and generally extolling the versatility of these great sandwiches. But (wo)man cannot live on panini alone! Sometimes panini can be meals unto themselves, but often we pair them with a side dish, soup [...]

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