I headed to my local farmer’s market this weekend with high hopes of gaining some good panini inspiration.  And I did…but not in the way I’d expected.
It was my first trip to the farmer’s market in over a year and I soon remembered why it had been so long.  Two tomatoes ran me $7.50!!  I [...]

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Like that of many other time-strapped folks, my current weeknight dinner strategy is to cook just a few times a week and repurpose the leftovers in between.  I was on Day 3 of my five pounds of Chicken Marbella (which is amazing, by the way - I highly recommend Elise’s recipe!) today when I decided [...]

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For weeks, I’ve been thinking about how I might put together barbecued chicken panini, but I always got stuck on the cheese part.  What kind of cheese goes with barbecue?  Well, somehow it totally escaped my consciousness that I do enjoy a barbecued chicken pizza every now and then.  That, of course, uses mozzarella.  Successfully [...]

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I’ve gone mobile! It was my good friend Karen’s birthday and another good friend, Gillian, and I decided to prepare lunch for her to celebrate. So I packed up my Breville, a bunch of tupperware full of fixins and my 6 month old and transported Panini Happy up to the OC.
As supermom to four [...]

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Don’t you love those versatile ready-made pizza crusts? Perfectly pre-baked and seasoned discs ready for your chosen toppings. Well, they’re good for more than just pizza - try them as flatbread for panini! In this quick-and-easy Chicken, Hummus & Red Pepper Flatbread Panini recipe, leftover roasted chicken makes a delicious encore with crisp, toasted flatbread, [...]

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I love to roast a chicken on the weekends, and with just two of us (who eat solids) in the house, there are always a lot of leftovers. Fortunately, panini were tailor-made for leftovers. I pulled together this even-better-the-next-day sandwich with ingredients I had in my pantry - challah bread, roasted garlic aioli, pancetta, swiss [...]

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