Browning the ground beef

Stir in the seasonings, tomato sauce and dark red kidney beans.

While the chili simmers, let’s toast us a bagel of your choice. I am using the everything bagel. Once again the freshest bagel I could find at my local supermarket. I will also begin cooking the 6oz. handmade hamburger.

Handmade 6oz. hamburger

Time for some Monterey Jack Cheese

Toasted with a slice of Monterey

A nice dollop of homemaade chili

Another dollop a top this trusty burger

Bon appetit!

Today, I have decided to bring a dish that was a favorite in the movie “Seems Like Old Times”. In this movie, Goldie Hawn and Charles Grodin(Goldie’s present hubby) have a housekeeper named Aurora. She makes a dish called “Aurora’s Famous Chicken Pepperoni” that later ends up being served by Chevy Chase(Goldie’s first hubby and escaped, framed convict) to a judge that is a guest at Goldie and Charles house. Very funny flick. Check it out if you’ve never seen it. I recommend watching it again just because it is funny.

Enough with the movie and on with the sandwich of the week. “Aurora’s Chicken Pepperoni Bagel Sandwich” Once again, we’ll need to go out and get the freshest bagel you can find at your local supermarket. Today I am using a whole grain bagel. 1 Weaver frozen chicken cutlet, 2 slices mozzarella, 6-8 slices of pepperoni, a little tomato sauce, some Romano cheese and some crushed red pepper to add a little flair.

Fresh bagel, pepperoni, mozzarella, chicken cutlet, tomato sauce, Romano cheese and crushed red pepper.

ready-for-the-nuker

Cheese is melted.

Today I have decided to take a classic sandwich, like the Turkey and Cheese, and put it on one of my favorite bagels. An Everything bagel. What made this sandwich stand out was the flavors of the everything bagel that just absolutely make this turkey and cheese a new favorite. I can’t tell if it’s the garlic, the onion, the poppy seeds, sesame seeds, or any of the other spices embedded into an Everything Bagel. So here it is, “The Turkey & Cheese is Everything Bagel” It’s a bit lengthy for a sandwich name but, The wonderful flavors that dance on your pallet will last much longer than the sandwich itself.

Cut the Everything bagel in half and lightly toast

Fresh oven roasted turkey, American cheese, Romaine lettuce, Everything Bagel

Butter the bottom half of the Everything bagel, it's way better than mayonaise.

I like to layer the turkey and cheese. Some turkey, some cheese, some more turkey, some more cheese

Pile on the Lettuce

Enjoy!!!

I didn’t add fresh onion or tomato because it is my taste. You can add whatever you like. But I found that due to all the flavors that the Everything bagel provides is really quite amazing. I suggest you try it the way we have created it here. This way, it still leaves any of your future bagel adventures open to suggestions. Mom always said,”taste it before you salt it”. You know what I mean.

The Elephant Egg Bagel Sandwich w/Spam

This week, I thought I would take a childhood favorite and add a bagel to it. When I was a kid, my brothers and I would cook our own eggs. My brother Jimmy taught me how to make an elephant egg. Which everyone else on the planet called an egg in a raft. So he took this piece of bread and he knocks out a hole in the middle and fried an egg in it. It was delicious. He would also grill the knocked out piece of bread to soak up the yoke with. He called it an elephant egg. I think he called it that because the bread around the egg made it look like a big fried egg. So… enough with the history and on with the egg sandwich of the week. Hopefully a famous bagel sandwich.

Let’s start out again by picking up the freshest bagel you can find at your local grocery store. I am using a plain bagel because that’s what I fancy, you can choose any bagel you find palatable. I wouldn’t go as far as to use a blueberry bagel, but… you know, knock yourself out.

So the first thing we need to do is basically cut a round piece of bread out of the middle of this bagel. Now you want to do this without destroying the whole bagel. What we are really looking to do is get three bagel slices out of one bagel. Two ends and one middle. The middle is what we intend to use to knock a hole in the middle. I am using a round cookie cutter. You can use any shape you want, just remember you have to drop an egg in the center and preferably for me, with yolk in tact. I am also adding two thin slices of fried Spam. You can use bacon, sausage, or any other slice of heaven you find as a compliment to your egg sandwich.

You’ll need a big enough pan to grill the egg and bagel top and bottom, or two pans work if you grill the bottom in one pan while you cook the egg and raft in another pan. You can grill the top while you flip and fry the egg and raft.

If you grill your bagels to a golden brown over medium heat, your egg yolk will be nice and runny. Be careful, this sandwich has been know to explode on first or second bites, so be prepared and please enjoy.

You get yourself the freshest bagel you can find in your local grocery store.

Grillin' some onions!

Drop egg over onions

Out of the pan

It looks like this because it is real. Not mocked up with armorall. I want to enjoy it not throw it out.