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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!

I lived in England for two years and lost weight, and loved the food--loved Tescos, Marks and Spencers, Sainsbury's and the ease of finding good vegetarian food. I loved the gastropub atmosphere and the emphasis on talking and pub quizzes rather than just drinking.

I don't eat meat or drink beer and there was lovely Indian food, the chips were great for junk food, and snack food like crisps, flapjacks, and chocolates were divine. Ditto jacket potatoes with cheddar and butter--now that's awesome street food!

The problem with British food is not that it is bad, but that when it is bad it is grotesquely, epically bad food, bad food like none other I have been served in restaurants--like the pub where I asked if the soup was vegetarian and the man said, "oooh, I'll have to go back and have cook look at the tin" and the soggy white bread, Nescafe, and so forth. And because tourists don't know where the good British food is they eat at such places and go back without seeing how good it can be, particularly in supermarkets and out-of-the way places.

Oh wow, I would have to second to many of the comments above. Each nation has its own version of something stuffed and usually it's always quite tasty. Pierogis, knishes, mandu (Korean dumplings), shumai, samosas (double yum b/c it is deep-fried!), ravioli, summer rolls, spring rolls, soup dumplings, steamed red-bean buns, mochi, the pork buns at Momofuku, arancini! (risotto balls stuffed with mozzarella and deep-fried), and the list goes on. Oh boy, I am getting hungry just thinking about all of this!

Great filled foods that I would consider bringing to a party happening this month include

* crepes (using Full Belly Farm flour, Straus milk, Ludwig Ave Farms eggs) filled with roasted asparagus, Fiscalini bandage-wrapped cheddar, topped with bechamel sauce
* Italian torta filled with chard, Redwood Hill goat feta, green garlic, and eggs
* mini-boreks with spinach and cheese filling
* crepes filled with strawberries and toasted pecans, topped with creme fraiche
* dates stuffed with nuts and goat cheese drizzled with honey
* if a roulade counts as something filled, perhaps a chocolate cake with some kind of strawberry filling

Other times of year would have different fillings, of course, like tomatoes or stone fruit in the summer, apples in the fall.

Pan fried pork and chive dumplings, Soup Dumplings, Veggie Samosas, Vietnamese Summer roles....

For those who don't know (and I didn't know about courgettes, I had to look it up):

aubergines, courgettes = melanzani, zuchini = eggplant, Italian squash

A deep fried Panzarotti. It must be deep fried!

Scrambled hard...or if it's an omlette, add a lil' water to make them fluffy :)

Another vote for poached.