Red Robin's Baja Turkey Club

Yesterday, I had an uncontrollable craving for the Baja turkey club sandwich that Red Robin USED to have on it's menu.  It was an AMAZING conglomeration of sliced turkey, bacon, tomatoes, pepper jack cheese, and a spicy taco sauce, served on grilled Texas toast.  It had 734 calories, 47 grams of fat, 112 mg of cholesterol, 29 grams of carbohydrates, and it was NINETEEN points on Weight Watchers, but TOTALLY worth it!!!!

I was SO desperate for one, that I went online and found the following recipe on the blog "Frankly Creative" (http://franklycreative.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-version-of-red-robins-baja-turkey.html).  I've tweaked it a bit, but here it is:

MOCK BAJA TURKEY CLUB SANDWICH

To prepare Baja sauce (makes enough for 3 sandwiches), add to a small bowl and mix well:

• 2 T. mayonnaise

• 2 T. taco sauce

• 1 tsp. chili powder

Spread Baja sauce on one side of two pieces of Texas toast.

Add thinly sliced pepper jack cheese to each of these pieces of bread on top of the Baja
sauce.

Add a thick layer of thinly sliced deli turkey, one whole green chile (from a can) that has been sliced open, and thinly sliced tomato, if desired.

Add two slices of bacon.

Put the two pieces of Texas Toast together, and butter the outside of each slice, and cook on a griddle the same as you would a grilled cheese sandwich.
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Having found the recipe, guess what??!!  Duane and I WENT to Red Robin today for lunch, and LO AND BEHOLD...it's back on the menu!!!!!  IMAGINE MY GLEE....!!!!!

Me...discovering that the Baja turkey club is back on the menu!!!!

Baja JOY!!!!!!

I'm thinking I will be stopping at Red Robin MORE than I usually do...now that this culinary MASTERPIECE is back in production!!!!

Here's hoping YOU recently discovered that a favorite food was "back from the dead" too!!!!!!