Between the Bread

Some people believe everything is better with bacon, or salt, or both. Bacon isn't my indulgence of choice, but my betrothed is quite fond of bacon and salt bagels. On a recent morning after, he boldly combined the two.
Take one toasted salt bagel with cream cheese and tomato, add a few strips of oven-cooked bacon, and you have a delicious salty breakfast to cure your ills. Would you eat it?

Sometimes, I almost look forward to hangovers as an excuse to eat bagels. Or egg sandwiches. Or, on those rare lucky occasions, an egg sandwich served on a bagel. This beauty came from Miller's East Coast Deli in San Francisco.

The Polk Street deli offers your choice of bagel (I picked poppy seed), ham or bacon, and egg cooked however you want it. As you can see, you also get lots and lots of cheese — Swiss, in my case. This ordinarily would have been too much cheese for me, but on this sunny Saturday morning, it was just right.

See more of my one-handed hangover cure.

We got an early start on July 4, trying to get a first-come, first-serve campsite. We failed. But no matter: we still had some delicious sandwiches. For the early morning road-trip breakfast, we made bagel sandwiches with salmon, cucumber, tomato, and cream cheese. It was a perfect way to start the weekend. Check out another bagel beauty shot.