The Hangover Killer: Peanut Butter, Bacon, and Honey Sandwich

The cruel facts of life are making themselves clearer with each passing month. We’re getting older and our nights out are fewer and farther between. When we do pull a late-nighter, the morning after is a little worse than it was in the days when we could just roll up to the caf for a meal plan-subsidized plate of tater tots and Belgian waffles.

Now, please don’t get me wrong—the egg and cheese deli sandwich remains the gold standard for all greasy breakfast sandwiches—but sometimes the recovery process needs to be aided by something a bit more jazzy.

Enter the peanut butter bacon honey sandwich. Two slices of white bread (thick Italian bread or challah is extra decadent), smeared with peanut butter, stuffed with two slices of applewood-smoked bacon, and drizzled with honey—simple, savory, sweet, protein-packed, and perfect for soaking up any excesses.

When you can’t get out of your Mets pajama pants to make a bagel run, nor are you anywhere in the vicinity of Shake Shack to pick up a specialty peanut butter-bacon burger, this is the solution to all your woes.

And if you’re too tired to deal with the whole greasy sputtering constant vigilance of cooking bacon in a skillet, do it oven-style. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper, place a wire rack on top, and line up the bacon on the rack. Bake in a 400˚ oven for 15 minutes, flipping after ten minutes for evenly crispy sides. (Careful when flipping; the bacon is fairly drippy.)

The house still fills with the intoxicating bacon aroma that wakes up all other family members and friends who are crashing on the couch, but it’s not so in-your-face; it’s more of a slow build that mingles happily with the scent of a brewing pot of French roast.

Bonus: the rendered fat pours easily off the baking sheet into a glass jar, to be stored in the freezer for your next round of sautéed vegetables. (Especially for that asparagus that’s in season right now, but that’s for another post.)

Full disclosure: my typical boring suburban nights don’t even give me the excuse of a hangover to make this sandwich very often, but it hasn’t stopped me from whipping one up as a Sunday morning treat. Give yourself free rein to try it out—it might even give you the energy to power through all your weekend errands and keep you going till dinnertime.

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