Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwiches

This is sandwich number four in my top ten list of all time best sandwiches. It's damn near impossible to go wrong with bacon, unless you're a vegan of course.

My take on this sandwich includes mayonnaise, mustard, and honey, on a toasted herb slab made by Acme baking company. This sandwich needs a nice crisp kosher pickle, and some good crunchy kettle potato chips as accompaniment.

I like to use Hobbs applewood smoked bacon. When I worked at Oakville Grocery in Palo Alto we had this little old man that would come in each week and buy a quarter pound of Hobbs' bacon. That was his treat to himself each week. One week I asked him how old he was and he told me he was 85.  I' don't think I'll make it that long.

I use iceberg lettuce when I make this sandwich, and I cut the tomato slices thin. Crushed black pepper is an absolute must to complete this sandwich of sandwiches.

I'm writing my blog early this week because I'm doing a cleanse this Saturday, and I'll be fasting on water, honey and lemon through Monday next week. I need to loose some pounds, get in shape for the coming year, and get rid of those toxics that have built up. I do a sea salt warm water solution and shit my brains out for an hour, and then it's the water, honey, and lemon juice for 3 days.

This year I turn 60, but that's a whole other blog for another day. I'm not happy with my fat old hippy ass, it's time for me to once again confront my food addictions, which are numerous. How that will affect my blogging only time will tell. I will allow myself my once a week treat, like the old man from Oakville Grocery, and will probably be what I blog about each week. I'll be riding the brown rice, salad, tofu, quinoa, veggie, nuts, and whole grain train for a while. These are all food that I love, but not ones that I crave. I crave the saturated fat, and that is why I won't live to be 85.

Anyway. Try this recipe. It's great for a Sunday brunch with friends. Have a nice glass of a grassy Sauvignon blanc, or a good pale ale, and you can't go wrong.

Lastly, dont throw away that bacon fat. This is great for frying eggs, to saute veggies, or making french fries. Keep it in a jar in the fridge, and it will last for damn near ever. Every diet needs some fat in it.

No photos this week. I forgot to put an SD card in my camera. This sandwich was my treat for this week, and man did it taste great.

Peace,

Make Food/Not War


BLT Recipe: makes one

Ingredients:
4 or 5 strips of bacon
3 or 4 crisp leaves of iceberg lettuce
6 thin slices of tomato
focaccia bread
mayonnaise to taste
mustard to taste
local honey to taste
crushed black pepper

Directions:
1) Cook the bacon in a cast iron skillet to your desired consistency. I like mine crispy. Put on a plate with paper towels to soak up excess fat.

2) Toast bread and put may on one side with mustard and honey on the other and cracked pepper.

3) Construct the rest of the sandwich, the bacon, lettuce, and thin slices of tomato.

That's it.