The best BLTs I've ever had, and I've had a lot of BLTs, are the most simple - no frills versions. Homemade, sturdy white bread (the only time I ever eat white bread), good quality mayo (again, the only time I really eat that crap), ripe tomato (also not a fan), lettuce, and of course perfectly crispy bacon. The only changes I make are subtle ones.
Avocado is one of my very favorite foods. When I was little my mom would cut one in half and sprinkle pepper over the cut sides and I'd eat the avocado right out of the skin, and I've never met a guacamole that I didn't like (and eat all of). Yeah, I have no idea why I'm not obese either. If a BLT is like a blow job (I have no idea how it would be, but lets pretend), than avocado on a BLT is the money shot at the end (I hope my dad doesn't read this blog anymore). Sure, you could have one without the other, but they go so well together, so why not whore it up and combine the two, you dirty little so-and-so???
Lets pretend that I actually had crusty white bread when I decided to make a BLT last weekend, and not just my normal bullshit "whole grain oat for hippies" crap, mmmk?
While the bacon is cooking on the George Foreman grill (or if you're not awesome enough to have a GF grill, in a boring old frying pan), toast the ever-loving-hell out of a couple pieces of bread. Although I hate restaurants that use wording like "nicely toasted" in their menus, a good BLT does, in fact, require bread that has been "nicely toasted". Besides the addition of avocado, the other small tweak I like to make is this:
Oh hell yeah. Add about a teaspoon of crushed garlic to about a tablespoon of mayonnaise and stir those bitches together. Sure you'll have terrible breath afterward, but if you're making it at home your clothes are going to stink like bacon, so you might as well go all out.
So you have your bread "nicely" toasted, the garlic/mayo is down, avocado spread and lightly peppered, and your bacon is sufficiently crispy and excess grease patted off with a paper towel. You're ready to assemble.
Does that not look freaking perfect??? I think BLATs are #1 on my "last thing you would eat before you die" list. What's yours?
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Oh hellz yeah. I LOVE avacado and do the same thing...eat it right out of the skin sometimes. I add a little wee bit of kosher salt and pepper and MMMMMMM. This is maybe one of my favorite posts...BLT + Avacado = pure love.
Why oh why couldn't you have waited until after lunch to post this? Now I totally have to go out and get one. Thanks Georgia (shakes fist angrily at you).
Also, this is one of the few sandwiches which us hippie vegetarians can still enjoy with fake bacon - it doesn't taste weird like all the other fake meat sandwiches! Though adding more mayonaise is usually required.
Bacon, avacado, and blow jobs? People can stop blogging now because you have won.
#1 on my "last thing you would eat before you die" list: Steak cordon Bacon. Don't know what that is?, that's because I invented it.
Marinate your favorite steak in honey teriyaki sauce (with a little garlic powder) for 24 hours. Cook in a frying pan (or GF grill, if you're fancy like that) til it's about as well done as you want. Slice a pocket into the side. cook up some bacon, break into chunks, and stuff inside steak with chunks of sharp cheddar. weave a mat out of bacon 2.5 times as wide as your steak, and equal length. Wrap it around your steak, fry or grill until bacon is golden and crispy. Eat. Die of a heart attack. Nothing is quite as delicious as foods that will kill you.
I want to marry your BLAT.
The only thing I would tweak is removing the pepper (because I am crazy and hate black pepper.)
My hatred for uncooked tomato knows no bounds, so I've never partaken of a BLT.
A mushroom and swiss burger is the way to go to the grave. From a smoky diner off Route 66.
Living over a deli for a year and smelling bacon every morning severely hampered any enjoyment I have of the stuff. I make ALT sandwiches often with mild cheddar.
Wow, that DOES look freaking perfect. I will have to try it sometime! My preferred last meal, however, would be Eggs Benedict. Made by my dad because his recipe is way better than anything I've ever tasted in a restaurant.
I am seriously thinking about leaving work to go find a BLT with avocado. That looks freaking delicious.
Aaaaaaand I know what I'm eating for lunch tomorrow. Freaking DELICIOUS. I would avocados every day, I swear.
My last meal would HAVE to be the most perfect cheeseburger ever, with the crispiest fries on the side. Mmmmm.
Spicy chicken nachoes with a side of gucamole. love.
I love BLTs and these look so good! Thumbs up on the garlic too.
My last dish would probably be chelo kabab: juicy kabab koobideh served on a bed of buttered basmati rice, with a grilled tomato, sprinkled with sumac (raw onions and herbs on the side) and a glass of doogh (minty-salty yogurt soda) to wash it all down. It's such comfort food.
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