Lookin for New Food Ideas

At the beginning of the year, I made it my goal to get more involved in the cooking and preparation of food at the fire station. I've always loved just coming up with ideas and having other people cook them and see how they turned out. The problem with that is, it never quite turns out the way I'd hoped it would. So now I am gonna have to start cooking. Which is what I did the other night. I started out with a simple steak sandwich from Bon Appetite. As it usually goes at the fire station, we take a simple dish like that and well... basically change the whole thing. The end result the other night was a homemade panini sandwich that was out of this world. I took some suggestions of toppings from the peanut gallery, and here is what we created

Here's what you need to make this wonderful, delectable treat:

Hearty Italian bread, focaccia, ciabatta, or other thick cut of bread

Flank steak pan cooked to medium rare and thinly sliced

Crispy French fries

Coleslaw

Sauteed Mushrooms

Fried egg, cooked hard

Stack it all together and attempt to eat

*As you can see, the possibilities are endless. This would be fantastic with chicken, steak, or pork and just about any other toppings you can imagine*

We've come up with some great recipes, as we get more, I will post them, hopefully with pictures. Our shift has been great this year, only hope we can keep it going throughout 2010!