Northeasterns

Day 151

So, a Northeastern is like a Western sandwich but instead of the traditional ingredients of ham, onion, green pepper and cheddar, we use whatever veggies are on hand and whatever cheese is on hand. We call it a Northeastern, although last time we made it we called it Toasted Egg-n-Veg Sandwich.

Northeastern Sandwich

Northeastern Sandwich

Basically, by our definition, a toasted sandwich on any bread, with any vegetable or cheese and no meat is a Northeastern. Tonight we had ours on bagels. We decided to stop calling them Westerns since they really aren't Westerns in the traditional sense and renamed them Northeasterns.

Eggs and veggies

So Many Ways to Make Them

The vegetables can be mixed with the raw egg and scrambled, or added in with the half-cooked egg and scrambled, or even added to the top of a half cooked fried egg, like we did tonight!

Bread options include:
Bread, bagel, English muffin, croissant, tortilla, pita or whatever bread you like or have at the time. We love our potato bread, but tonight we had sesame bagels that had to be used, and were the catalyst for the whole meal.

Bagel toasting

Veggie options include:
For vegetables you could use spinach, mushrooms, green onions, white or yellow onions, red, orange, yellow or green peppers, tomatoes, or whatever you happen to have.

Spinach and mushrooms

Cheese options include:
You can skip the cheese for these, but if you prefer to have it, we've tried lots of different ones with eggs, including Swiss, feta, Havarti or cheddar.

Tonight's Northeastern

Normally I scramble the eggs and veggies together, but tonight I was feeling more like a fried egg, so I added the vegetables to the uncooked side...

Tonight's ingredients included:
Red onion
Mushrooms
Red pepper
Havarti cheese
Sesame bagels

Veggies on frying egg

...and the cheese to the cooked side after flipping it.

Egg with Havarti

Pop it onto the bottom half of a buttered bagel...

Open Northeastern sandwich

...and top with the top half of bagel. And enjoy! Simple and cheap and delicious.

Northeastern sandwich

Reviews/Comments

Surprisingly delightful meal, even or supper. Good with fruit or home fries. I give mine an 8.