Sunday, August 8, 2010

Grilled Veggie Panini

It wouldn’t really be fair to call this a recipe. A panini, no matter how tasty, is still a sandwich. Still, these are pretty tasty sandwiches. We got all the veggies from Jack-O-Lantern Farms, a local farm that sells Certified Naturally Grown hydroponic vegetables (and the best eggplant we’ve ever eaten).

These were prepared on a panini press that we purchased just a couple of weeks ago. This was the first meal we prepared using it and, naturally, our cats have already broken it. But we highly recommend a panini press if you enjoy grilling veggies, sandwiches, etc. Just put it away if you have cats.

The veggies were sprayed with a little olive oil cooking spray, seasoned with salt, pepper, and oregano, and put right on the press. Once the sandwiches were built, they went back on the press to be thoroughly heated. …okay, it was to give the bread those cool grill marks.

Any vegetables and bread will work, really, but here’s what we used: French loaf bread (precut because we’re lazy in the summer), eggplant, red bell peppers, Vidalia onions, zucchini, squash, Vegenaise mayonnaise, and roasted garlic hummus. Yum.

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