Speaking of sandwiches -- it's Grilled Cheese Sammie Month. What's your favorite grilled/sandwich?

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We haven't done a sandwich thread -- or at least one in a long time. I got me a panini maker (which sadly is not a friend to the grilled cheese) and I've got bread.

What are your favorite sandwiches grilled/panini/or not?

 
Can't remember where this came from: , REC: Grilled Turkey Panini

-your favorite flat bread
-thin sliced turkey
-shredded cheese of your choice with a bit of chopped cilantro mixed in
-your favorite chutney-maybe some of that yummy stuff you canned last summer
-melted butter with a sprinkle of cumin stirred in

Assemble sandwich. Paint the outsides with some of the butter. Grill. Eat and Enjoy!

 
We use our panini for grilled cheeze all the time. One favorite is Panera's whole grain bread

smeared with country dijon mustard and layers of imported Irish cheddar cheese. (Try as I might, I can't bake a loaf of whole grain bread as good as theirs.)

I lightly smear the outsides of the bread either with mayo or Vegannaise. That lets it get golden brown and crunchy without softening it. Saw that little trick at a Publix, no less. It needs at least 5 minutes to get crunchy.

I hardly ever use the grill pattern plates...the flat sides work fine for me.

 
Love, love, love my Krups panini press. Use it on everything possilbe although that one time with

the cat's tail didn't turn out NEARLY as well as I'd hoped. C'est la vie, huh?

 
My panini squishes the grilled cheese to a pancake

of course I'm using sliced sourdough which I guess is the problem but I like more cheese than bread on my grilled cheese.

Sadly my panini is old and doesn't have removable plates so I only have the grill plate.

However the best thing ever is the flat bacon it makes.

 
How about adding spacers that are slightly shorter than the height of your sandwich?

I'm picturiing large 1" metal nuts covered with silicon pads (to avoid scratching if your plates are Telfon coated). If your plates are metal, just use the bolts.

That would let the grill brown the bread, but not compress it so much. You can control the height by the number of stacked nuts. Superglue would hold them together and a set of 3 would balance the weight distribution.

 
Since it's an old machine, it's probably pretty heavy... I think the new ones are have lighter lids?

 
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