Rebecca A. Foster

My cousin Tobe taught me to make these sandwiches, one of his specialties. I made them for my friend Rich, who recently asked me if I would make it for him one last time before I leave. I think he will miss the Tobe Specials more than he will miss me. Not that I blame him. Here's the recipe, as I remember it (I'm sure Tobe will pipe up if I'm wrong): 1 plain bagel, sliced American cheese cream cheese 1 fried egg sliced deli ham Add some sliced ham to one side of the bagel and put both halves in the oven to lightly toast/heat up the ham. When the ham is warm, open the oven and add the American cheese. Keep toasting until the cheese is melted. In the meantime, fry an egg, then add it to the ham and melted cheese bagel half. Slather the other bagel half with cream cheese. Put the halves together and eat. YUM. (Also delicious without the ham, for weirdos who don't eat meat.)

Lunch is my biggest and most important meal of the day, but breakfast runs a close second. Dinner? Eh, whatever. Overrated. I never, ever skip lunch or breakfast, but dinner is often just a pain in my heiny. "What, I have to choose what to eat again??" I sleep through dinner all the time. It's hard for me to keep my eyes open from around 5-7, my sleepiest time of the day. And if I have to choose between sleeping and eating, I'll choose sleeping every time. But I digress. One of my favorite breakfasts is two corn tortillas with melted cheese, onions, black beans and salsa. Delicious and healthy to boot, and it takes about five seconds, perfect for those bleary eyed mornings when I can't keep a thought in my head for more than five seconds. Just take a couple of corn tortillas (for an extra health kick, use the whole kernel ones you can get at Whole Foods or The Good Earth) and sprinkle about 1/4 to 1/2 an ounce of pre-shredded cheese down the center. Then...