Now is the time!! The tomatoes are magnificent! Go and visit your nearest farmer’s market and buy those amazing heirloom tomatoes. Get some nitrate-free bacon and whip up bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches! We had just that for lunch today with an ear of corn, leftover from last night’s dinner, and it was just so delicious. So flavorful, like eating sunshine. Can you eat sunshine? Well it felt like it because this was just so fresh and yummy. So simple, yet full of flavor but light at the same time.
Once again, it’s all about the ingredients. Our bacon, from a local farm, was delicious and crisp. Our bread was toasted and also crisp. It was whole wheat sourdough artisanal bread. The orange tomatoes were vine ripened and just picked this morning. The two red cherry tomatoes I grew and picked this morning. The lettuce was iceberg for the cold crunch and the mayo was Hellman’s, not even homemade. I sprinkled a little fine grind sea salt and fresh ground black pepper on the tomatoes, before closing the sandwich.
Don’t let summer come to a close without making this. You won’t be sorry.
BACON, LETTUCE AND TOMATO SANDWICHES – serves 2
4 slices of whole wheat sourdough bread, toasted and cooled
2 – 3 heirloom tomatoes, sliced 1/4” thick
6 slices of nitrate-free bacon, fried crisp, drained on paper towels and patted dry of top grease
3 – 4 leaves of iceberg lettuce, torn in half, folded to fit
Sea salt
Fresh ground pepper
Hellmann’s real mayonnaise
Spread a thin film of mayonnaise on each slice of bread, Top one slice with a double thickness of tomatoes. Salt and pepper the tomatoes, top with 3 slices of bacon, the lettuce and then close with the other slice of bread. Cut in half and serve.
Eat with gusto and enjoy the summer sunshine!! You will LOVE it!
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It is like eating sunshine and my absolute favorite sandwich, the tomatoes are just beautiful right now as is the corn. Great meal!!
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Yes! I’ll make these and I have everything “in stock”. Isn’t it interesting how you can have all the making for something as fantastic as this and yet it never occurred to you to put it together. Thank you for the reminder. Fabulous looking sandwich you prepared!
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Oh Oh OH! Nothing like it with fresh home grown tomatoes!!!
Totally!!!
I could not agree more! Once my tomatoes started to turn pink, I stocked up on nitrate-free bacon. The morning they turned red, I bought the bread, lettuce, and made the mayo. I’ve been feasting on BLTs ever since. They will never taste as good as they do right now and I’m not going to let this opportunity pass me by. 🙂
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I’ve got tiny tomatoes the size of a quarter already and it’s not yet spring. I can’t wait to make this sandwich!
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Love BLT. Your bread looks fabulous.
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Thanks!! It was yummy!
Such a classic, summer sandwich! Yum!
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That’s such a yummy looking sandwich. I love this combination – it makes this a perfect lunch xx
Definitely!!
Love is indeed the secret ingredient! I learnt that a few weeks ago. I love this sandwich combination and I would not mind one for breakfast today 🙂
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A lovely stacked sandwich this surely is! I want a big bite, please!!! 🙂
MMMMMMMM!
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It was so yummy!!
After being vegetarian for years, I rediscovered eating meat when I found sources for pastured beef, pork and chicken nearby. I also rediscovered BACON and BLTs in the summer…I do make my own mayonnaise though!
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