So, let’s say you made yesterday’s Chicken Cutlets with Bacon, Rosemary and Lemon, and you have a few cutlets left over. Then you have the beginnings of my new favorite lunch: a Bacon-Rosemary Chicken Sandwich with Herb-Roasted Onions.

You’ll need the cutlets (which are seasoned with bacon, rosemary, lemon juice, salt and pepper, garlic and red pepper flakes), your favorite sandwich buns, a little mayo, provolone and Ina Garten’s Herb-Roasted Onions, one of this month’s Barefoot Bloggers recipes.

I wasn’t jumping up and down about trying these onions, but they are a fantastically versatile, delicious side dish. The roasting really brings out the sweetness of the onions and mellows them out for raw-onion haters like me. It’s a texture thing. I roasted the onions with rosemary (instead of thyme) to accompany the first night’s chicken cutlets and then piled them onto my sandwich the next day. So. Stinking. Good.

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I’m just sitting down to enjoy my beloved, oh-so-fresh TCB (Turkey, Cheese & Beyond!) Sandwich – a multigrain bagel slathered in mayo and topped with provolone, cracked pepper turkey, tomato slices, and a mix of clover and onion sprouts – when I notice the house is too quiet. Where’s-the-dog quiet.

Henry the Wonderdog is still sporting the dreaded plastic Elizabethan collar from his eye surgery, so I usually don’t have a problem keeping up with him. I look around. I call his name. Nothing. Then I notice the door to the basement is wide open. So, I tear down the stairs, and out the corner of my eye, I see Henry’s eyeball. Actually, it was a marble the carpet cleaners must have found and set on the staircase. But for a split-second, I knew the Duke of Dingleberry had shot out his eye running down the stairs.

He was napping on the basement floor. Completely oblivious to my micro-panic attack.

I call this sandwich the TCB because of the ingredients and because I can eat it one-handed while I’m Taking Care of Bidness. It doesn’t have any pesky cucumber slices sliding around. No avocado falling out. Just toppings with traction. Because you never know when you’re going to need a free hand to type, answer the phone or pick up your dog’s eyeball. Read More…