Blogger, chef, and community gardener extraordinaire, Pilar Hernandez of En Mi Cocina Hoy shares with us a simple and delicious flatbread sandwich recipe using chicken and avocado. We can’t get enough of these, and neither will you! Thanks, Pilar!

Chicken Avocado Sandwich
By: Pilar Hernandez, of En Mi Cocina Hoy

Talented cook and blogger Erica Dinho shares a recipe inspired by her native Colombia, using a bright chimichurri and chorizo, a spicy sausage, inside a Flatout flatbread for a sandwich that will keep you on your toes. Check out her blog and more at My Colombian Recipes. Thanks, Erica!

Choripan Sandwich
By Erica Dinho: My Colombian Recipes

If you are lucky enough to have leftover grilled salmon from some fabulous soirée, or if you want to impress the socks off your guests by grilling up a whole side of beautiful, crimson fish, then make these flatbread tacos this summer. Salmon lends itself well to tacos (as does shrimp!) and I can’t think of a better way to eat them than with spicy flatbread shells, homemade lime mayo, and a fresh mango salsa.

The first time I ever had fish tacos was at a little Caribbean themed restaurant in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. I was vacationing there when it was still reasonable, staying in a quaint little cluster of vintage 1950s beach cottages, each cottage facing the central swimming pool, right across the road from the ocean. Don’t ask me why all the places had swimming pools, so close to the ocean, but they all did. I guess this would be a good thing if you wanted assurances against sharks and jellyfish…

One night we decided we were tired of trying to catch the local blue crabs, who were playing hard to get and refused to hold on to our bait long enough to allow us to net them. Such horrible luck. We were sunburned, sweaty, and hungry, but definitely not for crab. So we hopped on our bikes and rode until we found this little shack called La Tortuga, bursting with colorful artwork and surf memorabilia. Despite our grubbiness, we were made to feel immediately welcomed.

I could have scarfed down everything on the menu, but I settled on the fish tacos, and I couldn’t have been happier, and it wasn’t just the dark rum, either. Every time I make this salmon version, I think back to that lucky night, when the dinner we didn’t catch led to unexpected deliciousness.

Amy at Flatout

I moved to a city that really and truly considers itself a food town. Every type of cuisine you’d ever want can be found in Chicago, but there are definitely specific dishes that they are famous for. Of course, everyone knows about deep dish pizza, regardless of whether or not they love it. And Italian beef sandwiches! And hot dogs. The triumvirate of Chicago cuisine. It seems, though, that when I get a craving for barbecue, I’m left….wanting her in my new town. Not to say there isn’t any here, because there is, just not the kind that I cut my BBQ teeth on in my old hometown, Kansas City.

In fact, I am so loyal (as are many KC transplants) that every time I visit I head to the nearest grocery store and stock up on my two or three favorite brands of sauces. As in, a grocery cart full to haul back, if I’m driving. The checkout folks are never surprised, either, they know what it’s for, and I’m not the only one buying carts of sauce. Believe it or not: people see me and usually give me a big thumbs up sign!

The bottles make great gifts for those who have never had the singular pleasure of true Kansas City barbecue, and I make sure there are plenty to get me through the rest of the year, too. Which reminds me, I should probably stock up on my next road trip.

I buy ground bison, too, whenever I can. Because I went to college in Kansas, one spring break some friends and I camped in the countryside. Spring break was early, so we even though we froze our butts off, we ate well, grilling bison meat we bought in the back of a small town hardware store.

Back home in Chicago, this bison burger on a flatbread is one of the first things I make when I have the sauce. The lean bison meat is perfect with my favorite sauce and will be perfect with yours, too. A perfect cure for the BBQ blues. (Go Royals!)

Amy at Flatout

Got a few minutes to make something delicious and totally satisfying? Then grab a pan and some flatbread, and let Silvia from Mama Latina Tips show you just what delicious and satisfying looks like. Rich chorizo and stick to your ribs potato layered with refried beans is our new flatbread obsession. We love what Silvia is doing, so keep it up, and thanks, Silvia!

by: Silvia Martinez
Mama Latina Tips