How do you build the perfect breakfast sandwich?
Describe your favorite breakfast sandwich... foundation (bread type), innards (the fillings) and extras (condiments & toppings). Is it created at home or one you purchase in a restaurant? Is it hot or cold? Open-faced? A knife & fork sandwich or one you can eat on the go? What's your signature breakfast sandwich?
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27 Comments:
I have a couple but this is my favorite one. Spread peanut butter on thick sliced cinnamon raisin walnut bread, drizzle with tupelo honey, top with second slice of bread & grill until oozing goodness. This needs to be eaten at home because it's just too messy to take with...but that way I can savor every mouthful!
JEP at 6:27AM on 01/24/08
Hot, homemade biscuit, with a slice of country ham and a drizzle of red eye gravy... but I haven't had one for a very long time.
elizabethw at 8:08AM on 01/24/08
If I make it myself, simple toast with lots of butter (Wonder Bread has its place, just not here) with a fried egg (over hard), some ham (warmed in the pan after I make the egg), and a slice of cheese (preferably cheddar or swiss).
If am I out and about, for some reason I’ve always liked Einstein Brothers “bagel omelet sandwiches” – usually the Ham and Swiss or the Turkey Sausage and Cheddar (both come with scrambled eggs).
Either way I like to have a good cup of coffee along with them.
jasonbrink at 8:49AM on 01/24/08
Homemade egg mcmuffin with buttered toasted english muffin, fried egg, thinly sliced old cheddar and a messy blob of ketchup.
lexophile at 9:01AM on 01/24/08
Toasted english muffin, buttered, with an over hard egg (salt&pepper of course), whatever cheese and breakfast meat is on hand and a cup of coffee. Good bread can fill in for the english muffin but then your egg-to-bread ratio is a little off unless you use 2 eggs. :)
I've made homemade biscuit sandwiches but I need to figure out how to make my biscuits sturdy but not dry and hard. They were crumbly and tough to hold on to but tasted fabulous.
AuntJone at 9:08AM on 01/24/08
More homemade egg mcmuffins here using a panini press to toast it. I use either whole grain english muffins or I cut two circles of whole grain bread. I cook an egg in a ring and then layer it on the bread with good quality peppered ham and some grated cheese, usually sharp cheddar but sometimes swiss. Very tasty and satisfying. I really like that I can prepare the sandwiches in advance and just toast them in the morning.
Library Lady at 9:16AM on 01/24/08
Make 2 slices of toast. Top one slice with peanut butter and bacon. Add second slice and eat. YUM!!
Egg sandwich: egg over hard, s&p, top with cheese. Sausage patty on toasted and buttered english muffin or rye bread.
SayWhat at 9:34AM on 01/24/08
Taylor ham, egg and cheese on a roll w/ketchup. eggs are scrambled, cheddar cheese.
VerasTastyFreeze at 9:46AM on 01/24/08
The perfect breakfast sandwich would have to start with the perfect sesame seed bagel (an elusive treasure). Toasted. Lightly buttered. That's pretty close to perfect already. Topped with bacon or Trenton pork roll, egg cooked a little over - over easy, s&p. Cheese? Depends on my mood. Served with hot coffee and freshly squeezed orange juice with ice in a tall glass.
PerkyMac at 10:33AM on 01/24/08
Egg sandwich: Two slices of whole-grain toast, heavy on the fresh avocado, eggs scrambled with a little cream and pepper, tomato, maybe a little cheddar on top. Sometimes, the tomato is replaced with ketchup which I've been told is disgusting, but I think it's delicious.
savecara at 10:54AM on 01/24/08
I toast bread add mayo then a slice of cheese and a fried egg. YUM
mommyme at 10:57AM on 01/24/08
Bacon, american cheese, and 2 fried eggs cooked just short of hard so there is just a touch of ooze in the middle. This gets loaded up on a lightly toasted kaiser roll. Salt, pepper, and a squirt of ketchup to finish it off.
Eroca at 11:22AM on 01/24/08
My fave is based off the Thomas Keller sandwich as seen in Spanglish. It's essentially a BLT with a fried egg. He uses a crusty sourdough pain de campagne style bread. I prefer a large biscuit, with bacon, lettuce, tomato, an over easy egg, some extra sharp white cheddar, and little tarragon mayonnaise.
seyo at 11:41AM on 01/24/08
Toasted bagel, cream cheese, lots of bacon and maybe a little lettuce and tomato.
Soup_Dumpling at 12:38PM on 01/24/08
2 toasted pieces left over french toast, spread a little honey or maple syrup mixed with ricotta or cream cheese, 3 pieces crisp thick cut bacon.
...drool...
protest at 12:39PM on 01/24/08
Between toasted Fresh Direct whole wheat pullman bread that's been well buttered: 2 over almost hard eggs, a good amount of super thinly sliced really sharp cheddar, S&P. Heaven.
chisai at 12:41PM on 01/24/08
I make these every weekend. English Muffin, over medium poached egg, ham (or, rarely, sausage or bacon) and American cheese. In fact, I make them so often for my fiance and I my mom bought me one of these for Christmas, kind of as a joke:
Egg and Muffin Toaster
For something a little fancier, I like toasted cinnamon bread with goat cheese and fig preserves. So tangy and sweet and delicious!
lo82070 at 12:43PM on 01/24/08
I have to agree with seyo about the Thomas Keller sandwich (one of the best scenes in Spanglish, next to the night he cooks for the housemaid), although I prefer a lightly toasted San Fran sourdough, the square kind. Its also great with ham instead of bacon. Must have lettuce, tomato, egg, cheese, & mayo. Better if the egg is over medium plus.
My go to breakfast sammy is a scramble of eggs, touch of cream, chopped honey ham, and any cheese I have on hand--american, though pedestrian, always melts the best--all chopped/sliced and scrambled, on lightly toasted white bread, with mayo. These days, I try to use a wholegrain bread. mmmm. started making these in college after a night of drinking and now I make them for my hubby on the weekends.
wookie at 1:37PM on 01/24/08
@ Eroca- That is the sandwich. I like to call it "Heart Attack on a Roll"
nelson5757 at 1:44PM on 01/24/08
I am reading some serious breakfast sandwich combinations---thanks--I may need to re-think my favorite! Another one I like is a medium toasted English muffin topped with softened brie cheese, next comes a runny-yolk sunny-side up egg & the muffin top. This one needs to be eaten over a plate due to exteme ooziness:)
JEP at 2:27PM on 01/24/08
I have two favourites, both are rather boring, I guess: one is cream cheese, lox and dill on toasted rye or bagel. Another one is a fried egg with a strip of bacon (or bacon bits) and ketchup, also on toasted rye or bagel. Both are open-face sandwiches, usually with the side of tomatoes, bell peppers & cucumbers sprinkled with dill, sea salt and olive oil.
brooke29 at 2:43PM on 01/24/08
Nothing boring about that, brooke.
seyo at 3:03PM on 01/24/08
I'm with you, brooke... I was beginning to wonder if anybody would mention lox and full-fat cream cheese. That is one of my all time favorite breakfasts ever. I like mine with capers and shaved red onions, open-faced on either a toasted sesame bagel or good seeded rye (toasted, of course).
Otherwise, an egg over medium with melted cheese. I break the yolk right before I flip it, so it doesn't stay in a lump in the middle of the sandwich, put a slice of cheese on the egg and turn off the heat. The time it takes the cheese to melt, usually gets the yolk firm but still a bit goopy.
The bread and fixins vary a lot, depending on my mood and what's on hand. Sometimes, it's just egg and cheese on toast. That's it. Others, it's on a toasted burger bun, bagel, english muffin, etc. Sometimes there's Canadian bacon or ham, but I like it best without. If there's sliced ripe tomatoes and leafed iceberg lettuce (never when I make it with meat), then there's usually mayo and mustard, too.
Sometimes I make 'em with SPAM. Nom, nom...
LoCo at 4:09PM on 01/24/08
lo802070 - my mother got my husband and I an egg and muffin toaster for Christmas as well!! Kind of a joke because my husband is such a breakfast sandwich fan (english muffin, egg, ham and whatever cheese we happen to have) but, I have to admit it makes a decent very quick and easy breakfast sandwich, and the toaster alone makes 1000% better toast than the old toaster oven we were using!!
mrsmoosie at 10:17PM on 01/25/08
a fried egg and a strip of crisp bacon on toasted, buttered cinnamon raisin bread. or lox, cream cheese, and onion on a toasted onion bagel. with tomato if it's tomato season.
cybercita at 11:20PM on 01/25/08
There is a little eatery near us that makes the best homemade english muffins - they are the size of a large roll, and so tender. I love making breakfast sandwiches with those, some locally smoked bacon, my dad's fresh eggs - sunny side up & very runny yolk - and some great local NY cheddar. Yum.....I want one now!
mepolo at 12:20AM on 01/26/08
Oh yea.... I forgot the butter on the roll, after it's lightly toasted!
mepolo at 12:21AM on 01/26/08