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BLT for St. Patrick's Day
This evening I decided to make bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwiches. It's a retro kind of thing. St. Patrick's Day leaves me feeling sentimental about days gone by. There are memories such as wearing something green to school so we wouldn't get pinched.
There are memories of slicing tomatoes very thin and placing them on bread with mayonnaise. Plenty of salt and pepper went with that sandwich. There's something about the flavor of tomatoes slathered in mayonnaise that reminds me of my childhood. I sadly recall how my recently deceased brother, Buddy Gregg, always a perfectionist about food, would labor over slicing tomatoes perfectly. I'm not like that. I slice 'em fast. So far, nobody has refused to eat one of the sandwiches I have prepared.
BLT's aren't really bad, nutrition wise. The bread on hand, Mrs. Baird's Buttered Split Top Wheat, has only 70 calories per slice. These are substantial slices, thick enough to hold together. I toasted the bread and coated it with the light mayonnaise my family and friends prefer, Winn Dixie Light Mayonnaise. We drive all over south Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana to find it. Winn Dixie stores are not so plentiful as they once were. When we find one, we buy five or ten quarts of store brand light mayo, our favorite of all mayonnaise. It has only 50 calories per tablespoon.
One slice of toasted and mayonnaise-covered bread are the tomato slices and the iceberg lettuce (no fancy green leaves for this sandwich, please). On the other side is the bacon. Wal Mart has some incredible peppered bacon. It has only 45 calories per slice after it is fried and drained.
So far the sandwiches are nutritious without an excess of calories. But I decided to add some cheddar. Oh no! Cheddar melted over the bacon put these sandwiches over the top!
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This evening I decided to make bacon-lettuce-tomato sandwiches. It's a retro kind of thing. St. Patrick's Day leaves me feeling sentimental about days gone by. There are memories such as wearing something green to school so we wouldn't get pinched.
There are memories of slicing tomatoes very thin and placing them on bread with mayonnaise. Plenty of salt and pepper went with that sandwich. There's something about the flavor of tomatoes slathered in mayonnaise that reminds me of my childhood. I sadly recall how my recently deceased brother, Buddy Gregg, always a perfectionist about food, would labor over slicing tomatoes perfectly. I'm not like that. I slice 'em fast. So far, nobody has refused to eat one of the sandwiches I have prepared.
BLT's aren't really bad, nutrition wise. The bread on hand, Mrs. Baird's Buttered Split Top Wheat, has only 70 calories per slice. These are substantial slices, thick enough to hold together. I toasted the bread and coated it with the light mayonnaise my family and friends prefer, Winn Dixie Light Mayonnaise. We drive all over south Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana to find it. Winn Dixie stores are not so plentiful as they once were. When we find one, we buy five or ten quarts of store brand light mayo, our favorite of all mayonnaise. It has only 50 calories per tablespoon.
One slice of toasted and mayonnaise-covered bread are the tomato slices and the iceberg lettuce (no fancy green leaves for this sandwich, please). On the other side is the bacon. Wal Mart has some incredible peppered bacon. It has only 45 calories per slice after it is fried and drained.
So far the sandwiches are nutritious without an excess of calories. But I decided to add some cheddar. Oh no! Cheddar melted over the bacon put these sandwiches over the top!
Get This Amazing Southern Cookbook, Flavored with Love, Now!
Labels: bacon lettuce tomatoe sandwich
posted by Mary Lou Cheatham at
8:55 PM
