Chicken Mushroom Provolone Sandwiches..

This recipe originally came from Williams-Sonoma, but I altered the recipe to make it mine.

- Thick Textured Bread-- I used Sourdough.

- Thinly Sliced Chicken Breasts (you can use Oscar Mayer or Sara Lee, but I used actual chicken breast and cooked it through). I sliced the breasts even more to make them thinner.

- 1 cup of fresh white or brown mushrooms

- Slices of Provolone Cheese (the original recipe called for Gruyere)

- Salt/Pepper to taste

- Extra Virgin Olive Oil

If you use actual chicken breasts and cook them through, remove them from the pan and add your mushrooms to the same pan. Saute over medium heat and set them aside. Slice your bread so your slices are thick enough so they won't fall apart in your panini maker. Put cheese on both sides of the bread. Put your chicken on one side of the bread, and the mushrooms on the other. Put the sandwich together and put in the panini maker until the cheese is melty and gooey.

Don't have a panini maker? You can use frying pans.. put the sandwiches in one pan over medium heat and put a foiled-covered brick or another frying pan on top of the sandwich to flatten the sandwich and add weight.

Pair it up with some sweet potato fries, and you have got yourself an awesome Bistro meal..

Ham and Cheese Panini... oh my.

Our cable has been out for the past month or so-- so that means no Food Network, which really bums me out. However my Internet is NOT down, so I got on Food Network's website and found a sandwich that Ann Burrell had made... And that is how I discovered Sweet Pepper Relish. Oh my gracious-- it's so good.

Ciabata Bread
Smoked Ham
Provolone and Swiss Cheese
Sweet Pepper Relish
Slices of Red Onion
Olive Oil

Cut the bread in half and drizzle the olive oil in the bread. Put a thin layer of the relish on (I did it only on half the bread, but do it on both sides if you choose). Layer the Provolone and Swiss on one side of the bread and several slices of ham on the other. Put the thin slices of onion on. Spray your panini maker and cook/bake until the cheese is melty and gooey.

It's a GREAT sandwich--- that Sweet Pepper Relish is sweet and spicy, and so good.

Yummy goodness.