Bacon Bagels

It's just like a BLT with a few more ingredients - I guess that becomes a BLTCCCOMB - but it's truly delicious..

Ingredients:
- toasted bagels
- hot & sweet mustard
- apple smoked bacon
- Gouda cheese
- rings of red onion
- cornichons
- pickled capers
- tomato slices
- red leaf lettuce

Salmon Bagels

Well, I guess technically this is an open sandwich. I've grown quite fond of bagels while I've lived in the states, and this classic is one of my favorite bagels recipes.

Ingredients:
- bagels [1]
- cream cheese
- smoked salmon
- (pickled) capers
- arugula

On toasted bagels spread cream cheese, add a layer of thinly sliced smoked salmon, some capers and a top of fresh arugula. Eat immediately.

[1] I prefer everything bagels, but do as you please.

Breakfast Bagel-Burger

Last sunday morning I wanted to create an eggy breakfast that could possibly be eaten without the use of knife nor fork.

Ingredients
- 2 bagels
- 2 eggs
- a dash of milk
- a handfull of mushrooms
- a few slices cheese (e.g. Dubliner)
- salt, pepper and tarragon

Rinse and slice the mushrooms, then heat them up in a pan with a little oil, salt and pepper.
Beat the eggs together with the milk, and add salt, pepper and tarragon - pour in a hot pan (diameter approximately twice that of the bagel) and let it solidify. Toast the bagels, and assemble: bagel bottom, egg, mushrooms, cheese, fold the rest of the egg over and top it off with the bagel top. Voila.

B.L.A.S.T.

...that is the Bacon Lettuce Avocado Sprouts & Tomato sandwich. The idea for this one came about as we ate a BLT with alfalfa sprouts at the local eatery Silvergreens and I thought: "Just add avocado and it would be a blast...". Mrs. Erator suggested substituting prosciutto for the bacon, but that would then become a SPLAT sandwich. Maybe some other time.

Ingredients:
- bacon [1]
- 1 tomato
- leaves of romaine lettuce [2]
- clover sprouts
- 1 avocado
- ciabatta bread

Fry bacon, slice the tomato and the avocado, rinse the lettuce and toast the bread. Assemble the sandwich: Bread, bacon, tomato, lettuce, sprouts, avocado[3], and bread again. Enjoy immediately!

[1] No, I'm not going to tell you how much bacon to use - you know how much bacon you want in your bacon sandwich.
[2] Same as for bacon.
[3] The order is not really important, but it works nicely to put the avocodo and the sprouts next to each other because the avocado help keep the sprouts in place.