I got a new baby niece last week (woo hoo!) and I will soon be sending my sister a copy of my friend Catherine McCord’s wonderful new cookbook for families, Weelicious. Fans of Catherine’s Weelicious.com blog know that she offers fresh, easy, healthy recipes for every stage of childhood – from baby’s first purées to pulled pork tacos (we just had those last night – yummm!).
** One lucky reader will win a copy of Weelicious – read on for the giveaway! **
The pages of Weelicious are full of easy, family-friendly recipes along with photos of Catherine’s beautiful family exploring and enjoying it all. A unique and insightful feature of the book are the quotes from Weelicious.com readers who have tried the recipes. If you’ve ever cooked for kids you know that they can be tough critics – as you’re making a recipe it’s reassuring to hear that real kids actually liked the dish!
I must have tried out 7 or 8 recipes from the book last week, and I’ve barely scratched the surface of everything I want to make. A few of our new favorites include: Mac, Chicken and Cheese Bites (extra portions freeze great), Sweet Potato Muffins (so moist!), Graham Crackers (sweet, delicious and I know exactly what’s in them), Chicken Noodle Soup (much appreciated by my sniffly 4-year old) and, of course, the aforementioned Slow-Cooker Pulled Pork Tacos.
PBRB “Waffle” Sammies was the Weelicious recipe that was most perfect to share on Panini Happy. I’d heard about people grilling panini-like sandwiches on waffle irons before (in fact, there’s a whole blog dedicated to “waffle-izing” food) but I’d never actually tried it myself. You just heat up a waffle iron, prepare your sandwich – for this one, Catherine combines peanut butter with a mashup of raspberries and bananas – and grill it off just like a waffle. The fillings are sealed inside and the outside turn golden and crispy. My kids think these are amazing! I’m going to have fun trying this technique with cheese and other fillings too. Read on for the recipe, but first…
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PBRB “Waffle” Sammies
Excerpted from Weelicious, reprinted with permission. (c) 2012 by Catherine McCord.
Prep time: 10 minutes | Cook time: 12 minutes | Total time: 22 minutes
Yield: 4 sandwiches
INGREDIENTS:
- 1 ripe banana
- 1/2 cup fresh raspberries
- 8 slices whole wheat bread
- 1/2 cup peanut, almond or sunflower butter
DIRECTIONS:
- Preheat the waffle iron.
- Place the banana and raspberries in a bowl and mash with a fork.
- Spread 2 tablespoons of the banana-raspberry mixture on 1 bread slice. Spread 2 tablespoons of nut butter on a second bread slice and press together to make a sandwich. Repeat to make the rest of the sandwiches.
- Bake each sammie in the waffle iron for 3 minutes, or until golden.
- Cool and serve.
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Recently I started making all kinds of grilled cheese sandwiches in my waffle maker. Good bead and good cheese are the key. I have followed Weelicious for a while. Congrats on the publication of her cookbook!
My favorite childhood lunch was definitely a plain pb sandwich… hold the jelly please!
Who doesn’t like a PB&J sandwich? Well, I know some do but not me!
I loved salami and cheese sandwiches 🙂
One of my favs was open-faced grilled mozz and oregano. Let the cheese get just a little brown… yummm!
Mmmm…I could go for that now!
Peanut butter and grape jelly!
My favorite kid lunch was a grilled cheese sandwich! Some things never change, lol:)
Why mess with a good thing, right? 🙂
Grilled Cheese Sanwiches and Vegetable Soup. Yum!
My fav. childhood lunch was alphabet soup!
When our neighbors watched us, the would make mac and cheese and chocolate mouse pudding!
A plain peanut butter sandwich almost every day!
My favorite childhood lunch was pb & fluff!
These sound sinfully delicious! Looks great!
My favorite was an grilled pizza sandwich with gooey cheese, pepperoni and pasta sauce. Yum!
Ha, I have no recollection… Probably Spaghettios or something since I only got those as a special treat.
My favorite was a toasted sandwich with green coconut-cilantro chutney and Vegetables with dollop of ketch up!
My favorite childhood lunch was either grilled cheese and tomato soup or chicken burritos!
Classic PB&J! I wasn’t very adventurous then!
Macaroni and milk!
love(d) bagel sandwiches with cheese, mustard and salami under broiler
grilled PBJ wafffles
My favorite childhood lunch was something my sis and I called PB&J On The Rocks – your classic PB&J with potato chips crushed in the sandwich 🙂
As a child I loved peanut butter sandwiches!! No jelly or jam though… for some reason I hated the stuff! Now I love it 🙂
My favorite childhood lunch was a simple sandwich made on “rainbow bread” that my mom found at the little local grocery store. No other kid had it at my school, so at least at lunch, I was the coolest kid on the block.
I loved Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Tomato Soup!
grilled cheese with tomato soup!
My favorite as a kid was cold chicken tenders, or a hot grilled cheese, or plain Peanut butter, never liked jelly until my late 2o’s. Would love to win a copy of this awesome book.
spam musubi
cute how fun! I want to make these! Great giveaway!
With a new grandson to arrive in two short months and an adorable granddaughter of 3 I would be a much loved grandma if I created these delicious meals for them. I hope I win!
These look brilliant!
Ummm, Fried bologna! Sounds awful now but loved it then. I think my step daughter would love this book!
Peanut butter and banana
Raviolies
My fav childhood lunch was pb&j on Brownberry Oven bread!
My favorite childhood lunch was pizza.
your new way to enter a giveaway is not working for me! I would love to get a copy of Weelicious!!!
As a child I always liked a tuna sandwich plus Cambell’s tomato soup.
My fav. lunch was a spagetti sandwich. Wierd but yummy…put the leftover pasta with meat sauce on bread..all done!
My mom would make me peanut butter and cheese sandwiches for lunch. Smooth peanut butter, Kraft American cheese slice and white bread, presses as flat as possible. I lived on those sandwiches as a kid.
Fun! It’s like an indoor pudgy-pie — no campfire required.
I loved fried spam and cheese with mustard on plain white bread.
Croque monsieur with hot milk was my favorite lunch.
I’m suscribed 🙂
Pasta salad!
This is so clever! she’s so good at getting picky kids to eat healthy, I’m always so impressed.
My favorite childhood lunch was lasagna!
Yum yum yum. Perfect idea 🙂
Oh, and my favorite childhood lunch, was always tuna salad, but PBJ was a close second 🙂
PB&J of course!
Mine was always grilled cheese with soup
BRILLIANT. The waffle pressing idea will definitely make it to my blog in the future. 🙂
As a child, I loved grilled cheese and ham sammiches, and pickles. The pickles weren’t on the sammich, mind you!
What a fun idea and great cookbook!
that would have to be….grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup.
I loved deli “cold cut” sandwiches.
My favorite childhood lunch was a bologna sandwich with ketchup!
grilled cheese yummio!
Strangely enough, my Nana used to make us BBQ chip and butter sandwiches on white bread and they were my favorite by a mile!
I have huge love for waffles. Seriously 🙂
This waffle sandwich gave me the idea of waffles and chicken. So I combined the jerk chicken from your new book (which I tested for you) and placed the chicken between two pieces of whole wheat bread, after cutting off the crusts. It looked and tasted great. Since waffle iron doesn’t open like panini maker I couldn’t stack the chicken as high as I would have liked. Thanks for the idea.
That sounds fantastic!
I need a waffle iron to make these for my kids; I would love to see Catherine’s new book.
What a scrumptious sandwich! I love the idea here.
That looks like such a delicious sandwich. My favourite is peanut butter, honey and banana 🙂
This is a delicious sandwich, but on my food truck I’ve created a twist. I make my own green chile waffles and then I fill them with different fillings. Then I put them on the panini grill and melt the cheese or Nutella.
Just to say thanks to Kathy, because you have a creative spirit as I believe I am. So yip, yip hooray for Kathy and thank goodness I found this site!
Roxy’s Bistro on Wheels
New Mexico
In Australia schools and childcare centers are becoming “nut free” zones because of the rise of nut allergies. So these days “peanut butter” and event “Nutella” is on the restricted list and if the center is “nut free” you cant even use it to make a bird feeder!
It’s that way here in the U.S. too. 🙂