My favorite is poutine – french fries, topped with cheese, covered in hot brown gravy – so the cheese gets all melty. The top item on my to-do list when I go to Canada.
I seem to remember someone discussing a deep fried mac and cheese sandwich once. So similar to the Alton thing but with the added attraction of extra carbs.
Mmmm… poutine. That would be my artery-hardening guilty pleasure right there.
Better yet, poutine served with a big juicy bacon cheeseburger on the side.
Best of all, add a fried egg over easy on that burger and a slather of mayo, and you’ve got yourself a little piece of heaven on a plate (and it’s about as close to heaven as I’ll get, since I’m pretty much guaranteed to land in hell a little ahead of schedule if I eat those more often than once in a blue moon)
Can you use 1 cup of butter instead of 8 oz? 
I’ve had Bagna Cauda made by a “real Italian grandmother”, and it’s wonderful. I think she used a lot more garlic, though. We didn’t dip any bread in the pot, but used large slices as a sort of plate to put the chopped up veggies and meat onto before eating. It also served the purpose of soaking up some of the oil. Then, at th end of the meal, you eat the bread.
I used to work for a real swish caterer, and once a year we’d do a large event for the Cattlemen’s Association, it was the only time I saw this appetizer offered.
Large chunks of expensive beef, wrapped in bacon, skewered, bbq’d and served with bernaise sauce to dip it in. Heart attack on a stick!
Well, there’s the 100 patty In ‘N’ Out burger…just dripping with cheese and grease. MMM!
I make some pretty good beenie-weenie’s.
A couple of large cans of BBQ beans.
A couple of large sausages. Whatever you prefer. I switched it up a lot and they all taste good in this mix.
A pound of bacon, an onion, a can of corn, a couple cloves of garlic, black pepper and some spicy BBQ sauce.
Basically throw it all together and cook. And it always tatses better the next day or two.
Thinking about it now I haven’t made this in awhile and I need to stop by the grocery store anyways. I am so making this tonight.
Nothing beats a breakfast of chicken-fried steak, topped with sausage gravy and fried eggs. And a side of bacon, of course.
Been making creamed chipped beef on biscuits, topped with an egg for breakfast fairly often lately. Be sure and butter the biscuits. I have it with tea, but it would go well with coffee, too, which is far worse for you.
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No, really.
I don’t know that it beats some of the over-the-top listed so far, but I immediately thought of our regional specialty - the Kentucky Hot Brown. Rich doesn’t begin to describe it.
I’d been meaning to try poutine for a while, but there’s no place around here that makes it. Then I found somewhere on here a method for making good french fries at home, by layering frozen fries with a whole lot of bacon, in a pan in the oven. One thing led to another, with predictable results: Bacon poutine.
I still haven’t had poutine from any other source, so I have no idea how authentic mine is, but it is very yummy.
!!! I thought that was something with a four-figure price tag at the Chicken Ranch!
But you forgot the hash browns, and the side of biscuits & gravy. That would be the perfect breakfast.
With the cardiologist on stand-by, of course.
Put a brownie in a bowl.
Now place a few scoops of your favorite ice cream on it.
Next pour hot chocolate over the ice cream.
Spray whipped cream over that.
Top with 2 cherries.
Croque monsieur. I allow myself to eat it far more often than I should, along with my CFS. The good thing about the croque though is that one small one is more than enough to sate any porky, cheesy, carby desires I had. But oh, so deliciously evil. The CFS at least is labor-intensive enough to make rarely, and by the time I’m done cooking it for 8 or more people (it’s always an event), I’m about sick to death of looking at them and can barely manage one.
After I eat either though, I usually eat rice and beans (sans cornbread, which I usually fashion with bacon grease) for a week as penance.
Its name is the ‘Bacon Burger Dog’ and it’s the winner hands down.
Hot dog encased in ground beef encased in bacon and put into a hoagie roll. I’ve won more fair weather friends that way . . . I just wish they were still alive.
Yeah, my appetite has waned over the years…sigh.
Add cheese and a fried egg (extra runny yolk) and you’ve got a winner.