Sandwich Recipes?

[PrincessFiona]

Last week at Aldi, they were selling a Panini maker for $20 so I decided to buy one.

This is absolutely the BEST kitchen appliance that I own! I'm making toasted sandwiches in minutes and we have already run through the standard ham/cheese, grilled cheese, turkey cheese stuff.

Does anyone have some fun and interesting sandwich recipes I could try out? I'd love to make some fun/fancier ones for a different kind of a dinner...or just to shake things up!

[DCJenn]

I just made this last week and it was GREAT!

I bought turkey tenderloins and grilled them on the George Forman, then sliced the grilled turkey into slices about a quarter in thick. I layered the turkey with a slice of low fat provolone, lettuce and tomato but here's the kicker- instead of regular mayo I mixed one tablespoon of Pesto (I had some leftover home-made stuff but you can buy it in the jar) and two tablespoons of low-fat mayo and smeared each sandwich w/ the spread. It gives you all of the flavor of pesto but cuts the fat w/ the mayo. The original recipe called for fat free mayo but I already had three different kinds of mayo open and didn't want to add a 4th!

Jenn

[Vanquisher]

A quick and easy would be a tomato and mozzerella and basil one. Also, you could do turkey with cranberry spread and cream cheese. Also turkey with bacon and avocado, pizza-style panini using pizza sauce. Need more? I'll think of some.

[DCJenn]

Oh, my friend Jeannette and I were inspired after seeing a "Ham on the Street" show on the Food network - his theory was that you could take any cheese, any jam and any bread and come up w/ amazing grilled cheese sandwiches. We tried it twice- we bought a variety of cheeses- brie, havarti, smoked cheddar, etc. and then found the wackiest jams we could find and used wheat bread, Italian bread and an olive bread. It was so FUN. I bet your kids would have fun mixing and matching their sandwiches. We also cut each of the sandwiches in to four pieces so that everyone could sample and vote.

[PrincessFiona]

YUM! When we lived in N. Ireland, the sandwich shops had the biggest variety ever! They made turkey sandwiches with cranberry sauce/stuffing/gravy etc.

I love the ideas you guys have posted so far....the mix and match sandwich thing also sounds like so much fun!

I wish I hadn't already eaten lunch (ham and swiss ) or I'd try out something new.....maybe for dinner tonight!!!!

[Auspicious]

Rachel Ray has a Monte Cristo recipe that's ham, swiss, turkey, and thinly sliced apple on the inside--assemble sandwich and then dip the whole thing in an egg, splash-of-milk, dash-of-nutmeg mixture before grilling.

Also my husband had a reuben panini for lunch and I thought that sounded good.

[houseelf]

Go Australian and do a ham and pineapple. I'd avoid vegemite if possible, however.

Kelly