Recipe #4

Yeah, I'm writing three posts in a row. Just pretend I wrote these over the course of the last year when I didn't write anything.

Recipe #4

Panini the Great

I made these for lunch today. Kaitlin and Claire are their creator, or at least, they showed me how to make them.

Get a ciabatta or any kind of tasty bread. Slice it so that it's like a sandwich but with nothing in the middle. Duh.

Get some prosciutto (it's this really thinly sliced meat that's salty) and put it on a hot pan so that it fries a little bit. Put some oil on the pan if you're afraid it will stick. It's pretty oily already, though, so you might not need more.

Put the prosciutto on one of the ciabatta slices. Put cream cheese on the other ciabatta slice and then put a little bit of sliced tomato on top of the cream cheese and then put a little bit of fresh basil on top of the tomato.

Close the panini. Panini is the plural and panino is technically the singular. It's Italian. Other examples of this is biscotti/biscotto and gelati/gelato. I thought cappuccino/cappuccini would be one too, but I can't confirm this on the Internet. This is List #6.5 Italian Bologna. Apparently, panino is just sandwich, generally, in Italian. I guess this food isn't necessarily a panino. It could just be a sandwich. Also, panino sounds pretentious.

Put some oil on the pan, heat it, and then put the panini on the hot oil to toast it. Flip it over when it's toasted to toast the other side.

Then, throw it in the garbage. You shouldn't be consuming that many calories.