The Elvis

We have run into mention of this sandwich at several places, but I first remember hearing about it around 2006 when visiting the Peanut Butter & Co. restaurant in NYC. It is a grilled peanut butter sandwich with bananas, honey and bacon. We were skeptical but game.

PEANUT BUTTER BANANA BACON SANDWICH

A nice bread -- we used fresh multigrain Italian bread, cut thick.
Sliced bananas
Bacon (fried to crispy)
Honey
Peanut butter (we used smooth; crunchy should also be fine)



Slather peanut butter on bread, then add bananas and bacon. Drizzle honey lightly over top, then add second slice of bread (uh... "make a sandwich") and grill.





Simple and tasty. Also, good for any meal of the day, really -- probably more of a breakfast/lunch thing, but we had ours for dinner due to scheduling issues.



For dessert, there'd been a sale on fresh strawberries so I whipped up a strawberry shortcake and garnished it with bacon just for the hell of it. It was fine, as long as the bacon was eaten separately. We would not recommend the bacon/vanilla ice cream combo, which should prove interesting for our upcoming (wait for it!) attempt at bacon ice cream.