Panini Happy®: Panini Recipes, Tips and Tales from the Grill

Greek Shrimp Panini with Pesto, Feta, and Sun-Dried Tomatoes

March 20, 2013

The trouble with making sandwiches with shrimp is that the little guys have a tendency to slip and slide around a bit. I’ve played around with a lot of different shrimp panini concepts and I finally figured out the key to making them work: a wide berth of bread. Give shrimp a little wiggle room—either [...]

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Bacon, Egg and Cheddar English Muffin Panini

March 5, 2013

There’s not a lot you can do to improve on a classic bacon, egg, and cheese breakfast sandwich on an English muffin. It’s pretty perfect, if you ask me – a savory, handheld meal in itself. My vacation breakfast go-to, for sure. I did come up with an improvement, though…

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Grilled Flat Iron Steak with Chimichurri and Fingerling Potatoes

March 1, 2013

Add this Grilled Flat Iron Steak with Chimichurri and Fingerling Potatoes recipe to your personal repertoire of highly satisfying and relatively quick meals you can prepare on the panini press (remember the list we started a few weeks ago?). I’m not a huge steak-eater, but I’ve pretty much fallen in love with the flat iron [...]

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Dark Chocolate Sweetheart Panini…plus a Sweet Giveaway!

February 13, 2013

It’s something I’ve learned from my kids, but I’ve found it works on me too – food suddenly becomes much more appealing when it’s heart-shaped. Of course, it hardly takes any convincing at all to get most of us to try a sandwich filled with dark chocolate spread. Dark Chocolate Sweetheart Panini are my homage [...]

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Spinach-Feta Quinoa Cakes…plus 5 Quick Dinners on the Panini Press

February 5, 2013

It starts around 4:45 PM in my house. First it’s, “Can I have crackers?” About ten minutes later, “I need yellow cheese.” And then soon after, a breaking point is reached. “WHEN ARE WE HAVING DINNER?!!” Spinach-Feta Quinoa Cakes with Lemon-Dill Yogurt Sauce is one of many healthy dinners I’m able to pull together in [...]

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Big Game Week: Grilled Crab Cakes with Old Bay Aioli

January 31, 2013

Big Game Week on Panini Happy continues with Grilled Crab Cakes and with Old Bay Aioli! Having the Baltimore Ravens play in the Super Bowl this year finally gave me the perfect reason to grill crab cakes on the panini press. Maryland is known for both its crab and for it’s classic seafood seasoning, Old [...]

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Big Game Week: Turkey, Bacon and Swiss Panini

January 28, 2013

Longtime readers of Panini Happy could already predict what’s happening on the blog this week – it’s my annual Big Game Week, where I share football-worthy panini press recipes celebrating each of the two teams playing in the Super Bowl. I can’t claim to be a devoted football fan, but I do enjoy the spectacle [...]

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Panini Press Brownies

January 17, 2013

Panini Happy turns 5 this week! If there’s one thing I’ve learned about the panini press through blogging about it over the past 5 years it’s that it is far from a “just a sandwich maker”. We love panini here, don’t get me wrong. But I’ll admit I get especially excited when I discover another [...]

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Kale, Grilled Garlic and Cheddar Panini

January 9, 2013

Is it too soon post-New Year’s for something indulgent like grilled cheese? I didn’t think so either. No two ways around it, these Kale, Grilled Garlic and Cheddar Panini are grilled cheese sandwiches. But they are also vehicles for a lot of healthy, nutrient-rich kale (which, by the way, even my children managed to allow [...]

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Grilled Shrimp Tostadas

January 3, 2013

Happy New Year!! And a big WELCOME to all of our new Panini Happy community members who received a panini press as a holiday gift – here’s to lots more fun grilling in 2013. Are you in the mood for something a little on the lighter side? Yeah, me too. I’m pretty sure you’ll love [...]

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