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Burger-style bacon sarnie

headchef — Tue, 30 Dec 2014 12:35:17 +0000

Bit of a happy experiment – lacking the peanut butter required for a Dead Elvis (Nigella has a healthy version here – healthier than the MEATLiquor book one, at any rate), I decided to make a burger-style bacon sandwich instead. Fry the bacon until it’s cripsy, once flipped add a slice of the cheapest, most-processed cheese you can find to the top of the bacon and leave in the pan until it melts. Place between two slices of thick white bread garnished with Heinz ketchup, French’s American mustard, shredded lettuce plus possibly mayo, sliced tomato and a dill pickle. EAT.

BLT with cheese

headchef — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:37:17 +0000

Ok – not a recipe, but this was so tasty I had to share. A BLT with melted cheese. Slice crusty bread in half, spread with a little mayo. Add ketchup & American mustard to one side. Slice sweet small tomatoes on one side & cover with black pepper. When you flip the bacon over, add a thin slice of your cheese of choice to the cooked side & let it melt in the frying pan. When the cheese is gloopy, add the bacon to the bread and stuff in some leaves – rocket would be good but I used lettuce & baby spinach. Assemble and eat. The weather justifies it.

Perfect crab sandwich

headchef — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 13:56:18 +0000

I was going to take a photo of this, I swear. Then I ate it. You will need:

crusty white bread
1 lime
some wasabi paste or powder made up with warm water
fresh crab meat
mayonnaise

Butter the bread with mayonnaise – if that’s not a contradiction in terms. Spead the crab meat over one slice. Squeeze lime juice aplenty over. Then spread a very thin layer of wasabi paste over the other slice. Bring together, right now, over me.

I discovered Waitrose sell fab little pots of Cornish crab from Seefood & Eat It in Newlyn (see what they did there?). They do pricey pots of 100% white meat, cheaper ones that are 50/50 white and dark (that’s what I went for) and cheaper-still pots of 100% dark meat.

Nom nom nom. I love crab and prawns and lobster so much, I always forget I’m a bit allergic – until my lips go numb and my throat gets a bit prickly. But it’s worth it!