Have you ever treated yourself to an expensive tomato?
Have you ever treated yourself to a single heirloom tomato? In season. Ripe. Striped with color. Fleshy. Juicy. Sweet. (I sorta sounds like I’m talking about butts… my apologies).
In any case… have you ever paid nearly $4 for a single tomato?
I have.
When really good tomatoes are thaaaat expensive, you choose carefully. You don’t care if you’re blocking the skinny yoga girl who is fluttering about behind you trying to get at the same tomato display. Excuse me, skinny yoga girl…. I’m going to take my time with this one. You should go eat a steak anyway.
What do you do with your ‘spensive tomato once you’ve requested that it be packed in it’s own separate bag, once you’ve placed it in the empty passenger seat next to you, once you’ve coddled it all the way home?
You put bacon on it. It is the only option.
Ok… so we’re going to put more than just bacon onto a tomato.
We’re making BLT sandwiches, with the best ingredients we can get out hands on. Because we’re (totes) worth it.
First. Good bread. Mine is from La Brea Bakery. Gimme. It’s good.
Organic Red Leaf Butter Lettuce.
That’s a lot of words for lettuce. See? Fancy.
Mayonnaise.
It’s not that fancy.
It’s just mayonnaise.
Nice, thick sliced, smoked bacon. Extra slices. Extra crisp.
Combine all ingredients in between bread slices.
Marvel at the beauty of your expensive tomato, fancy lettuce, crispy bacon… and the bread that you toasted in the residual bacon fat….
and then shove the entire thing into your mouth. Slowly.
Epic.
ps. if you have your own heirloom tomato plant, i salute you and your fancypants.
Jessica
oh no…you’re making me miss bacon!
I’ve never had one of those fancypants tomatoes.
AmyS
I’m totally with Terri Lea on this one… I’m toasting all my bread in bacon fat from now on!
Margaret
oh my gosh I work at a natural foods store (PCC) and I totally know those skinny yoga girls you’re talking about! HA!
Shannon @ bakeandbloom
See I would have been tempted to make a fancypants sumac, tomato, tart tatin but I think I would honestly enjoy this more.
This is more of a TBL than a BLT
notyet100
slurp.,..
Debbi
heirlooms….$4.00 each
living in NJ where they have entire farms of them….priceless!!!
Andrea
Holler from NJ! (I live there too)
Allie (Live Laugh Eat)
Isn’t funny how beautiful tomatoes with stripes and blemishes are seen as ‘ugly’ whereas perfectly round and scuff-free (read: bland) tomatoes are the ideal? I need to get my hands on an heirloom tomato…I’m just afraid I might squash it while overprotecting it on the drive home :).
Terri Lea
Fuuuunnnnnyy Stuff! Thanks for sharing! And sandwich bread toasted in bacon fat??? Brilliant!
Ethan
Thank you for not letting me down with the extra crispy bacon because soft mushy bacon could have jeopardized our friendship and also would have been rude to the $4 tomato!
Wei-Wei
I agree with the Boob Nazi. That is a very expensive tomato, though… Quite beautiful.
The Boob Nazi
You have a way of writing words that makes me feel like I’m making (and eating) the sandwich along with you.
Emily
I honestly don’t think I’ve ever had a BLT. I should get on that sometime soon! You see, I was a vegetarian for several years and that was the time that I discovered the goodness of tomatoes. I’m still in love with tomato, basil, and mozzarella sandwiches. That’s what I usually do with a good tomato and basil from the farmers market.
Cheeky Kitchen
Oh, heirloom tomatoes. There is NO thing like the flavor of late summer tomatoes. Even if, while describing them, it did sorta sound like you were talking about butts. ;)
Joe @ Eden Kitchen
That is a freakin’ expensive tomato but damn it looks delicious. Yum!
Keena
Heirloom tomatoes are (totes) worth $4.