This morning was to be dedicated to Elvis...but not "The King", the sandwich. I learned of the Elvis while watching a documentary called “Sandwiches That You Will Like”. In it, they visit ten different cities in the US and talk about the regional sandwiches. In New York, they went to Peanut Butter & Co., a restaurant where every sandwich has peanut butter in it where the owner declared the Elvis to be their masterpiece.
The Elvis is really just a variation of one of my childhood favourites: a peanut butter and banana sandwich. But for the Elvis you add fried bacon and honey and finish it off in a frying pan. Not wanting to mess up on my first try, I employed the “if bacon is good, more bacon is better” technique and piled it on.
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| Chunky...the only way to go |
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| Bananas sliced lengthwise...cross-cut is for amateurs! |
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| I guess it could have used more bacon...but just a touch |
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| A drizzle of honey before it hits the Elvis hits the frying pan |
The result? Quite simply…amazing. It may not have made my list of top 5 sandwiches, but it’s definitely in the running for 6th. I’ll be making this one again and again.
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| Amazing...just like the real Elvis, in a '68 Comeback Special kind of way Thank you, thank you very much! |
Lunch was nothing more than a quick bite of leftovers; pork and pork liver sausage and tenderloin from last night. No fewer than three people stopped by my desk to confirm that they smelled bacon. One co-worker, whom I suspect of being a socialist and closeted vegetarian, asked “what’s that smell”? I pity her for the fact that the aroma of bacon was obviously foreign to her.
Dinner consisted of pan seared pork loin cutlets with Turkish spices. I deglazed the pan with some white wine (and had a glass for myself in the process) and then added some canned white beans along with some of the starchy water from the can to make a simple sauce for the cutlets. Dress some salad, plate some grilled red peppers and a few slices of salami, and dinner was done is less than 20 minutes. It doesn’t have to be complicated.
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| White beans, chili flakes, rosemary and lemon zest |
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| Plated and ready to go! |
John, enough bacon already!!!
ReplyDeleteHave your cholesterol measured so you can compare at the end of March.
You can't call the sandwich an "Elvis"... that name is taken by the classic peanut butter-banana-honey combo already. You need a new name, like "Fat Elvis" or something.
ReplyDeleteNope, the Elvis includes bacon... check the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_butter,_banana_and_bacon_sandwich
ReplyDeleteBesides, the King wouldn't have lent his name to just a plain peanut butter, banana and honey sandwich; it would have had to have been something special for him to load his entourage onto a plane to make a sandwich run.