This, my friends, is one of my absolute favorite sandwiches. I’ve been craving it (and yammering on and on about how I’ve been craving it) for nearly a month. I specifically remember talking about how badly I wanted a veggie sandwich on an everything bagel one morning in LA, which was nearly a month ago, and somehow it took until this weekend for me to eat one. It also took me actually making bagels, even though I live within a mile of a Brueggers and drive past it almost every day. I might have a tendency to overcomplicate things.
A veggie sandwich on an everything bagel is nothing new, but, in my opinion, it’s one of the best sandwiches out there. You start with a bagel, slather it with cream cheese, pile on some veggies, and, for good measure, throw on a few slices of cheese. You get to enjoy a nice, chewy bagel and a load of fresh veggies at the same time. If you make it correctly, you’ll also end up with poppy seeds lodged in your teeth and cream cheese smeared on your face. It’s all part of the experience.
An everything bagel with a thin layer of cream cheese on each half, piled high with cucumbers, cheddar, sprouts, lettuce, and tomato. Perfection.
I used about a 60/40 mix of white bread flour and whole wheat bread flour for these bagels, and while they weren’t quite a bagel blunder, they weren’t the best batch I’ve ever made. The outsides never really toughened up, so they were more like soft buns than chewy bagels. Maybe I used too much wheat flour, maybe I didn’t bake them long enough, or maybe I didn’t add enough baking soda to the boiling water. I’m still not sure. If you’re looking to make a batch of bagels, I would recommend following this recipe.
Oh, I made bagel dogs, too. Delicious!
All I can say is….YUM.
That’s exactly what I said.
mmmmm! i used to be able to convince panera to make me these for the price of a bagel and cream cheese but they’ve unfortunately caught on