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Melty cheese, I've been getting it on my fries, getting it on the side to dip my sandwiches in, dipping chicken strips in it, everything!

And rasberry perserves, yummy!

Ry-krisp crackers and string cheese

Breyers coffee ice cream on a cone

Homemade pesto on sandwiches

The egg sandwich from the movie Spanglish (w/ Adam Sandler and Tea Leoni). For those of you who saw the movie, you may remember the scene when Adam Sandler's makes a sandwich that has an overeasy egg, bacon, etc. (see recipe) on it. After seeing that movie, I had a huge craving for that sandwich and ended up finding a link to how to make it. It's basically a BLT with cheese and an egg on it...so decadent but very yummy to have for lunch on a Sunday afternoon. It's worth every calorie!

Here's the recipe:

Spanglish Sandwich

Ingredients:
3-4 slices of bacon
2 slices of Monterey Jack cheese
2 slices of toasted rustic country loaf (pain de campagne)
preferred substitution used here: sourdough boule)
1 tbsp of mayo
4 tomato slices
2 leaves of butterhead lettuce (Boston lettuce variety works here)
1 teaspoon butter
1 egg

Equipment:
Frying pan
Sheet of tinfoil
2 sandwich picks (optional)

Cooking instructions:

Prepare tomato slices, cheese, and lettuce leaves first, put them on the side so that they're ready to go when you need them. With a medium-sized frying pan, lay out the bacon slices and set the range to medium heat. Watch it, but let it take care of itself and cook until crispy; it'll take 8-10 minutes (flip once if you like midway through). Meanwhile, preheat broiler; lay bread slices on a sheet of tinfoil and broil each side of bread slices for 20 seconds to toast. Put cheese slices on one bread slice and heat additional 20 seconds on foil. Remove and set aside. (Optional: leave broiler on, and right before you top sandwich off with cheese slice, heat again for 10-15 seconds to soften cheese again) Finish bacon, drain on paper towels. While you wait for this, clean frying pan (or use a second) and throw it back on medium heat with the butter slice. When the butter is melted, break egg into pan and wait for whites to set. VERY IMPORTANT: if the egg yolk breaks before you actually put the egg on the sandwich, discard and start the egg frying over. Flip egg and cook for 20 seconds, remove from heat. On the plain toasted bread slice, apply mayo, layer bacon slices, tomato, and lettuce. Top lettuce with the egg and, finally, with the cheese topped slice of bread (cheese side down, of course).

We're not done yet, folks. If you have the sandwich picks, you might want to use one on each side of the sandwich. Take a bread slicer and cut right down the middle, holding the sandwich gently but firmly. This is when you want the yolk to break; as it does, it runs down the side of the sandwich in a glorious golden waterfall of cholesterol. Did we mention yet that this sandwich is 1200 calories?

The Spanglish Sandwich is as good as advertised, and it far surpasses the movie that bore it. I highly recommend that you give it a try.

guacamole the way my friend makes it with tons of red onion, cilantro and lime

coconut cupcakes from the cute new bakery up the street

marinated flank steak on the grill

prosecco

rose (so pretty and delicious with barbeque)

chocolate croissants

rice and beans (as per normal :)

cahabo, that pasta salad sounds great! Thanks for the recipe.

Lately I've been obsessed with guacamole, cucumbers in my ice water, Life Vanilla Yogurt Crunch, Haagen-Dazs Mayan Chocolate ice cream, cornbread muffins, lemonade with strawberries, and Rold-Gold Honey Wheat pretzels. Weird food obsessions, huh?

Edamame. I could eat it every single day. I have asked to go to Pei Wei constantly so I can get it & I'm steaming it at home too.