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The Williams Sonoma Grilled Sandwiches book is excellent and includes paninis for all meals. Very diverse book ranging from just a couple ingredients to many.

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I made this recipe for my work's potluck and people really liked:
Magical Peanut Butter Cookies

Recipe courtesy Paula Deen
Show: Paula's Home Cooking
Episode: Healthy Cooking

1 cup peanut butter, creamy or crunchy
1 1/3 cups baking sugar replacement (recommended: Splenda)
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a large baking sheet.

In a mixing bowl, combine the peanut butter, 1 cup sugar replacement, the egg, and vanilla, and stir well with a spoon. Roll the dough into balls the size of walnuts. Place the balls on the prepared baking sheet. With a fork, dipped in sugar replacement to prevent sticking, press a crisscross design on each cookie. Bake for 12 minutes, remove from the oven, and sprinkle the cookies with some of the remaining sugar replacement. Cool slightly before removing from pan.

ahhh so many kinds, so many i love! belgian, sweet potato with or without brown sugar, shoestring, but always want them to be crispy - no soggy please!

Rare makes a nice fry basket which includes sweet potato, waffle and shoestring and 3 dipping sauces. perfect to satisfy the most discerning fry person.

Institute of Culinary Education would be perfect for him. They have a number of teen classes that arent just frosting and cookies. www.iceculinary.com