Bagel Egg and Cheese

everything bagel
egg
cream cheese
tomato
vegetarian sausage

A btw: Thanksgiving is upon us. Expect light posting in the coming days as I strangely don't expect to be doing any holiday cooking at all.

But here's a holiday treat in the form of a little story about the sandwich above. Though the bagel egg and cheese isn't memorable for its uniqueness, it is uniquely memorable to me. In college I worked at a really wonderful and odd place called The Halfass. We served terrible/delicious (terribly delicious?) food to the lovable long-haireds in East Quad. Among these items: ham spread with cream cheese, wrapped around a hot dog and deep fried; the spanjo (see link); and a straight ahead version of this bagel sandwich. Bagel. Egg. Cheese.

Despite the greasy, limited resources available, I did learn a lot about cooking from that place. In the true spirit of the Residential College, this learning was made of creative inquiry, experimentation, and beating the fear of failure. There were some successes: bonuts! (deep fried bagels), sloppy soy! (vegetarian sloppy joes), pita pizzas! (like they sound). And there were some failures: a deep fryer can not/will not produce a hard boiled egg.

Overall, The Halfass was a large and lovely part of my life for several years. So the bagel egg and cheese is more-than-sandwich. It's a juicy bite of nostalgia. And that, by the way, is the same delicious ingredient that makes Thanksgiving so welcome.