Pesto panini

Oct 12, 2009 11:20

G and I were shopping at Le Target last week and he wanted to look at sandwich makers.  One of his buddies at work has a little sandwich press so we went to check them out.  While looking at the one like his colleague has, we spied a slightly larger, very sexy looking panini press (if a sandwich press can be sexy, that is).  It was on sale, and looked a bit more versatile than the little bitty one that only does one or two perfectly square sandwiches at a time.  We bought the panini maker.  He made me a breakfast panini yesterday, complete with salami, tomato and cheese.

Last night
kytherean_tx brought over a FULL grocery sack of fresh basil from her yard and some walnuts.  I had olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and parmesan, and so we embarked on a pesto-making marathon.  THREE batches of pesto from this bag of basil, and that was with pressing the leaves down to pack them as tight as we could get them while measuring.  WOW.  And it was really tasty pesto.  We made a walnut pesto, then a pine-nut pesto, then a mixed batch and had G taste-test them all.  Turned out the walnut was #1 in popularity.  We ended up blending them all together (they tasted pretty spiff that way) and splitting the giant batch between us.  I have enough pesto to last the rest of the year and beyond I think.

I made myself a pesto panini just now, with light mozzarella cheese, a layer of homemade pesto and a few slices of salami.  O....M....G!!!!!

I am SO quitting my job and opening a panini hut.  With my mad coffee-makin' skills, it could totally work. Paninis and coffee, man.

And beer.  Lots of beer. 
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