I got a Mario Batali Chianti Red Panini Press on sale from Sur la Table. It’s been sitting on the sideboard, because I don’t have any place to store it, but I finally tried it out Sunday night – it makes a damn good sandwich. I had a couple of rye cocktail breads with Jarlsberg, and made a ham & cheddar for one of the kids. Mine came out like the sandwiches my mom used to make in the toaster oven on that dense German rye that comes wrapped in cellophane, sitting on ledge around the deli counter at the grocery store.
Mario Batali Chianti Red Panini Press
This weekend wasn’t too notable in the cooking department – on Friday, I got stuck schlepping kids, so never really made dinner. I was snack person for a librarian’s meeting in the morning, so I had bought sandwich meat and fruit. The kids I was schlepping had subs before I took them to their movie. I came home and I made myself a sandwich (turkey on toasted homemade whole wheat, with horseradish sauce and Durkee Special Sauce, and I made a mint-chocolate-chip ice cream pie for Al, who was in town for the weekend because his sorority-girl girlfriend’s sorority had a formal dance. I made the crust between schleppings then came back and filled it with the ice cream and made the topping. I ate too many oreos, and felt sick.
Saturday morning I got up and went for a nice walk, trying to counteract the oreos, meeting Rach for coffee, then combined cooking for brunch on Sunday with cooking stuff for Al to take back to MN. I made peach coffee cake, using my standard rhubarb recipe; carrot muffins with cream cheese on top – recipe coming soon; mac&cheese; taco meat, and various omelette fillings for the brunch – broccoli, grated cheese, mushroom sauce. We did get a real sit down dinner, tacos, but I bought corn tortillas, and I still have not figured out what really makes them taste good – I think I probably have to fry them – I heated them in the oven.
Tonight – Tuesday – is the 3rd annual (or something like that) edible books festival. I am going to bike home now for my entry, and I’ll post the pictures later tonight. I’ll let you know if I win.
