It’s been almost 2 months since my last blog and I thought I better update.

I spent the morning with my sister-in-law, Amanda. We had coffee and chatted for a couple hours, covering a wide variety of topics (like most women). We did a little shopping, oooed and ahhhhed over cute office supplies and picked up groceries to satisfy our appetites. Then we headed home and made Paninis. This now counts as my first new recipe since….I don’t even know!!

Cooking with Amanda is a little different than cooking by myself…mostly because she doesn’t use recipes and she looks so professional when she cooks I’m sure she has already blogged about her panini recipe, but I’ll share it for those of you who haven’t made them.

We used Focaccia bread and cut it into 4 sandwiches.

We had Ham and Salami for our meat, mayo and brown mustard, spinach, and cheese. We used Pepper Jack for a little spice.

I don’t have a panini grill so we used a grill pan (which for people like me who don’t know what that is, but happen to have one…it’s a frying pan with the upraised grill to make the grill marks on your meat or sandwich). We melted butter in the pan and cooked the sandwiches over medium heat.

To get the marks in the sandwich we used a smaller frying pan to press the sandwich down onto the pan so the grill marks imprinted in the sandwich. Then we cooked it on both sides until the cheese melted.

It was a really easy recipe and made a great sandwich for a cloudy, rainy day like today!