Quick Meals Planner: Sandwiches for Lunch
Bean Salad | Cuban Paninis | Teresa's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Bean Salad
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 10 |
| Category: | Salad |
| Meal: | Sandwiches for Lunch (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 1 | 15 oz can | green beans, canned |
| 1 | 15 oz can | beans, kidney |
| 1 | 15 oz can | chic peas |
| 1 | medium | onions, chopped |
| 0.25 | cup | sugar, granulated |
| 1 | tsp | salt, kosher |
| 0.5 | cup | oil, vegetable |
| 0.66 | cup | vinegar, cider |
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Rinse the beans and add to a large bowl. add remaining ingredients and stir. Allow to rest for an hour. May be served cold or at room temperature.
You may substitute any kind of cooked bean you like or have on hand.
Cuban Paninis
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Easy |
| Serves: | 4 |
| Category: | Easy Recipes I Can Cook |
| Meal: | Sandwiches for Lunch (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 8 | slices | bread, French |
| 0.75 | lb | ham, shaved |
| 0.75 | lb | roast pork |
| 0.75 | lb | cheese, provolone |
| 1 | Tb | mustard, yellow |
| 4 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 8 | medium | dill pickle slices |
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Layer thinly sliced pork roast, ham, cheese slices, and dill pickle slices on four pieces of bread. Spread other pieces of bread with mustard. Butter both sides of sandwich and cook on panini grill until cheese is hot and melted.
Note: no panini grill; use a grill pan with a heavy pan on top to hold the panini down.
Shown in picture with corn and pasta with herbs
Teresa's Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Recipe Summary
| Complexity: | Medium |
| Serves: | 8 |
| Category: | Dessert |
| Meal: | Sandwiches for Lunch (Quick Meals Planner) |
| 3 | large | egg |
| 1 | cup | raisins |
| 1 | tsp | vanilla |
| 16 | Tb | butter, salted |
| 1 | cup | sugar, brown |
| 1 | cup | sugar, granulated |
| 2.5 | cup | flour, all-purpose |
| 1 | tsp | salt, table |
| 1 | tsp | cinnamon. ground |
| 2 | tsp | baking soda |
| 2 | cup | oats, old-fashioned rolled |
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Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine beaten eggs, raisins, and vanilla and cover with plastic wrap. Let stand for one hour. Cream together room temperature butter and both sugars. Add flour, salt, cinnamon, and soda to sugar mixture and mix well. Blend in egg-raisin mixture and oatmeal. Dough will be stiff. Drop a heaping tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheets and bake for 10 to 12 minutes or until lightly browned.
Delicious: Soaking of the raisins is the secret!
