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mmmm....let's see...a toasted cinnamon bagel with peanut butter smeared on top (so it melts slightly because of the warm bagel), a sliced banana, and drizzled with honey. filling, nutritious, and delicious.

Smoked cheddar bagel, toasted, with green olive cream cheese. Pumpernickle, not toasted, with plain cream cheese, lox, capers, red onion and maybe tomato.

i like the salt bagel toasted with just the right amount of butter....

but has anyone ever had a bialy????? also good toasted with a lite smear of cream cheese and butter.... also great egg & cheese sandwich.

kossars bialy shop way down the lower east side..... near the donut plant.

Pumpernickel, cream cheese, lox & tomato - please!

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GK: Bobby Flay got a Who's Who, and he's Food Network, but point taken. As the channel moves further away from actual cooking and more toward competition-type shows and unbag-and-plate shows, it's not surprising at all that it didn't give any nod to the Beard Awards. After all, a large portion of the Food Network audience couldn't care less.

Wheat with peanut butter and sliced banana. One of my pregnancy cravings that never went away. Second fave is pumpernickel with veggie cream cheese.

Salt bagel with honey nut cream cheese.
Jalapeno bagel with plain cream cheese.
Poppy bagel with plain cream cheese and capers.

Cinnamon-raisin bagel with sundried tomato spread....sounds like an odd combination but it works!

there was a time when the very idea of the cinnamon raisin bagel used to make me go house. i attributed the complete and rapid decline of the bagel (and the civilized world) to their their existence (less so, but also, to the everything bagel, which i believe is a product of the 1970s.). but, now, after years of therapy, i accept these bagels and the fact that a studio on the lower east side costs 2 grand.

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for the gourmand on a budget, The Frugal Foodie has some great tips and recipes