Fancy Fried Egg Sandwich!

Fried Egg Sandwich with Bacon, Gorgonzola and Spinach on Ciabatta!

If you enjoy fried egg sandwiches and wilted spinach salad, you will want to try this sandwich!

Ingredients:

thick sliced bacon

ciabatta rolls (I used a loaf and cut it)

gorgonzola

spinach (or your favorite green)

olive oil

red wine vinegar

salt

pepper

butter

eggs (2 per sandwich)

1. Fry the bacon till crisp. Drain on paper towels.

2. Slice open the rolls or bread. Sprinkle gorgonzola on the bottom slice for each sandwich. Place tops and bottoms on a baking sheet. Toast in the oven till the cheese is melty.

3. Drain bacon grease from skillet and add 1-2 tablespoons of olive oil. Optional:leave a bit of bacon grease in for traditional wilted spinach salad flavor. Not as healthy but so delicious! Place spinach in hot oil and toss quickly till slightly wilted. Remove skillet from heat. Sprinkle spinach with red wine vinegar, salt and pepper and toss to coat.

4. Heat butter in another skillet and fry eggs till done to suit your taste. (flip eggs half way through) Season with salt and pepper.

5. Place the eggs on the gorgonzola slice of bread followed by bacon and wilted spinach. Close the sandwich and dig in!

Plumb Larapin!

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Pan Bagnat Update...

You may remember that Jim requested a deli meat version of a pan bagnat. On this one, I layered ham, sandwich pepperoni, garden peppers (cubanelles, anaheims, poblanos), chives, cucumbers, olives and tomatoes. I whipped up the same dijon vinaigrette as before.

This pan bagnat is delicious too and I'll definitely prepare it again-- maybe varying the veggies and meat.

As yummy as this one is, I still prefer the traditional tuna pan bagnat. Jim won't commit either way yet.

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Vive La Pan Bagnat!

Pan Bagnat (pahn bahn-YAHT) is our new favorite sandwich! This sandwich originates in Nice where it is offered every day for lunch in the bakeries and markets. It is a salade nicoise on bread so basically a French tuna sandwich. Not just any tuna sandwich, mind you, but the most amazingly delicious tuna sandwich in the world!

(DeLynne, did you eat pan bagnats on any of your travels to France? Did they use fresh grilled tuna? You know you are my 'go to' expert on all things gallic.)

Pan bagnats are so easy and fun to make. The process is very hands on so Talon loves to help.
First, we whisk up plenty of dijon vinaigrette. Then, prep all the ingredients for layering. Talon loves whisking, slicing eggs with the egg slicer, and of course, nibbling on his favorite ingredients.
The next step is digging out a well in both halves of our loaf of bread. Talon thinks that is great fun! Then we layer, pour on the vinaigrette, slap on the top, wrap tightly in foil and press.

We don't get to eat it till the next day but, boy, is it worth the wait! If you like sandwiches that have olive oil soaked yummily into the bread, a pan bagnat will make you plumb crazy! Yes, Torrey, I am thinking of you!

If you want to make a pan bagnat, here are the items you need for layering: canned tuna in olive oil, bell peppers sliced into rings, a sweet onion sliced into rings (we just use chives out of the garden), 2 boiled eggs sliced, black olives chopped, and a few capers. After you make a fairly deep well in both halves of your loaf, layer the above ingredients in the bottom half in the order listed.

We chose not to include tomatoes since we don't like them with tuna. If you do, by all means add them. Tomatoes would go on after the olives.

For the vinaigrette: Whisk together 3 tablespoons of red wine vinegar, 1 1/2 teaspoons of Dijon mustard, 1 1/2 teaspoons of kosher salt and 3/4 teaspoon of black pepper. Gradually add 9 tablespoons of olive oil until an emulsion forms.

Don't forget to press and wrap it very tightly after pouring vinaigrette over all the layers. I found that it also helps to drizzle a little vinaigrette onto the well of the top half of bread before placing it on the sandwich.

My research indicates that the sandwich can stand 2 hours at room temperature before serving. My opinion is that it is safer to refrigerate it until you want to serve it. Like I said, we eat it the next day so the vinaigrette has had plenty of time to work its magic!

This sandwich has us hooked! I found a recipe that calls for fennel root and garbanzos that I want to try. Jim has requested an italian version with salami ect that I am going to work up with plenty of summer tomatoes.

Here is something I found odd: Salad nicoise always has green beans but I never found a pan bagnat recipe that included them. I love roasted green beans on a sandwich so I will definitely try adding them to my tuna pan bagnat this summer!

A pan bagnat provides both a spectacular presentation and a taste sensation!

Bon appetite!

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