Bacon Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich's

[gwpercle]

I had three nice, back yard home grown , tomatoes get ripe last week ! So two nights in a row we had BLT's for supper.....they were wonderful . Those first tomatoes of the season always taste so good....
I made mine on toast Wonder Bread with Blue Plate mayo , a little lettuce and a lot of bacon and tomato....they were so messy good.
One bush is loaded with big green ones , two other bushes are later producing . I like to use different varieties so they all don't get ripe at the same time. And with three different varieties , my odds of beating the insects , wilt and everything else that kill the plants are better. This is what my Dad did....always plant at least three different types.
I just love back yard BLT's ....a tuna salad and tomato sandwich isn't bad either.
What can I do to encourage those green ones to start turning red........I talk to them every day .
I need another BLT fix !

Gary

[Hickory]

Just go done with supper, BLT's on potato bread.

[Nueces]

Man, I love fresh BLTs, too, but the deer around here will masticate nearly ripe 'maters, every one of them. I tried hanging a planter under a stepladder, which I placed on the concrete driveway right by the house and those yard bandits got all of 'em right before picking time. Can't shoot 'em, either.

[gwpercle]

Man, I love fresh BLTs, too, but the deer around here will masticate nearly ripe 'maters, every one of them. I tried hanging a planter under a stepladder, which I placed on the concrete driveway right by the house and those yard bandits got all of 'em right before picking time. Can't shoot 'em, either.

Sounds like a case of justifiable nuisance deer elimination .... I got a compound bow and some broad head arrows that are real quite....no noise hardly at all. You welcome to borrow it !
Gary

[Nueces]

Sounds like a case of justifiable nuisance deer elimination .... I got a compound bow and some broad head arrows that are real quite....no noise hardly at all. You welcome to borrow it !
Gary

Thanks, GW! This is a developed neighborhood, used to be an old hill country ranch. Lots of trees, horses, but few fences and just full of soft hearted wimmin who put out deer feeders and counsel the 'rehoming' of snakes. You should hear the digital wailing on Nextdoor when someone observes a deer with an arrow sticking out of it. I prefer my hell in the next life, thanks very much. HEB will have to do.

[MaryB]

Looking forward to that! But it is 2 months away at a minimum...

[reloader28]

You've gotta be kidding. I just planted tomatoes 2 days ago and was rushing it at that.

[rondog]

I like BLT's with a slice of onion, slice of Am. cheese, some sliced avocado, and one fried egg over easy. Now THAT'S a sammich!

[farmerjim]

I have had a bacon and tomato sandwich for breakfast every day for the last 4 weeks.
Nueces: I have a major deer problem here. They jump my 8 1/2 foot fence with ease. I have electric fence wires down every row of vegetables and 3 feet back from the fence to keep the deer out. It is working, but it takes me 30 min each morning to turn off the fences and remove the wires feeding them from the charger. Same in the earning to put them back. I have only forgotten to turn one off twice this year.

[dale2242]

I just planted my tomato plants a week ago.
I`m jealous....dale

[gwpercle]

I like BLT's with a slice of onion, slice of Am. cheese, some sliced avocado, and one fried egg over easy. Now THAT'S a sammich!

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[Hardcast416taylor]

My Mother used to place green tomatos on a window sill in the house facing South to hasten their ripening.Robert

[shooterg]

How much for a MFRB of tomatoes ? LOL Be a while 'fore we got ripe ones here - maybe some fried green ones in a month.

[farmerjim]

Back in the 80's when I lived in Montreal, I had a 1 acre garden just across the border in New York. I would send my father in Baton Rouge a 20 pound box of tomatoes each week (end of July and August) . It was too hot down here for tomatoes in the summer . It would cost about $20 to ship them back then.

[Geezer in NH]

Putting in our plants this weekend. Yes I am jealous until we get 90+ degree days.

[mold maker]

I've often had fresh tomatoes at Christmas, but never this early. I'm jealous.

[shaner]

Yum yum. Here in Ohio going to be a while for ripe maters. I have some small green ones I am a waiting

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[castalott]

"yum Yum" is RIGHT! Now I'm hungry... :D Dale

[gwpercle]

Thanks, GW! This is a developed neighborhood, used to be an old hill country ranch. Lots of trees, horses, but few fences and just full of soft hearted wimmin who put out deer feeders and counsel the 'rehoming' of snakes. You should hear the digital wailing on Nextdoor when someone observes a deer with an arrow sticking out of it. I prefer my hell in the next life, thanks very much. HEB will have to do.
That don't sound like the Texas I know, you do mean Texas with the Alamo , Amarillo , El Paso and such right ....is California people moving in on you ! Watch them rascals , you'll be eating tofu instead of jerky and growing pansy's instead of beef cattle in no time... Don't let them take over!
Gary
My grandfather was a blacksmith in the Beaumont area .

[rockrat]

Slingshot for those pesky deer!!



BLT-------MMmmmm----as long as you leave off the "T"

[WRideout]

I made mine on toast Wonder Bread with Blue Plate mayo ,
Gary

Where I grew up in So Cal, we considered Wonder Bread to be ethnic food.
Wayne

[gwpercle]

Where I grew up in So Cal, we considered Wonder Bread to be ethnic food.
Wayne

What kind of bread is eaten in So Cal...I've never there ! In fact I've never been much farther West than Lockhart , Texas. We get white bread with our BBQ there but I don't remember the brand.
Could have been Wonder Bread.
Gary

[arlon]

I prefer kale to lettuce in these.

[trapper9260]

It been some time I had a BLT on toast. Time will tell when I will have some. The T here is just got in the ground. Too hot of L it gose in seed too fast. Got the B in the freezer .

[mold maker]

I'm sure tired of those tomato substitutes that fill the store bins. Looking forward to a real red dirt home grown tomato sandwiches. I just bought 2 lbs of thick sliced bacon and a jar of DUKES. I'll get the lettuce and tomatoes out of the garden.

BTW I noticed Roses had 12" plants at 6/$1. on Friday.

[gwpercle]

I'm sure tired of those tomato substitutes that fill the store bins. Looking forward to a real red dirt home grown tomato sandwiches. I just bought 2 lbs of thick sliced bacon and a jar of DUKES. I'll get the lettuce and tomatoes out of the garden.

BTW I noticed Roses had 12" plants at 6/$1. on Friday.

I had to stop buying store bought tomatoes ...they look so good , I would get my hopes up...and then they are so tasteless ... Big let down. Same way with peaches ...picked green , shipped and tasteless , every time .
Maybe it's just me but tomatoes seem to taste better if you can let them turn a nice shade of red while still on the bush.

Have gotten some wonderful peaches in Texas , picked them right off the trees...ripe and juicy , now them's fit for eating !
Gary

[WRideout]

What kind of bread is eaten in So Cal...I've never there ! In fact I've never been much farther West than Lockhart , Texas. We get white bread with our BBQ there but I don't remember the brand.
Could have been Wonder Bread.
Gary

Tortillas. either corn or wheat.
Wayne

[Col4570]

Put some Green Tomatos in a drawer with a Banana Skin it helps ripening.I have plenty of Flowers on my Toms but no fruit yet.Soon be time to start feeding them when they get little green Toms.I have 10 Moneymaker and 3 Red Cherry Plants in the Greenhouse all nice healthy plants,I have a load outdoors as well.I always set the full packets of seeds and give away those I don't need.My lettuce are doing well (Webbs Wonderful)so I have here two of the ingredients for BLTs.I might try a few sliced radishes in the Bacon Butties as well to give them a bit of crunch.

[gwpercle]

Tortillas. either corn or wheat.
Wayne
Oh...now I get it ! :Bright idea:
I'm slow but I'm old.
Gary

[bangerjim]

Just finished one! Two toasted 10 grain slices of bread, huge glops of REAL mayo (not that MiracleWhip grabage my wife eats!), 5 “sloppy” pieces of REAL thick hickory-smoked bacon, red leaf lettuce, and 2 big thick slices of a perfectly ripe red ‘mater.

Can’t beat that on a hot Az night for dinner!

Banger

[gwpercle]

Just finished one! Two toasted 10 grain slices of bread, huge glops of REAL mayo (not that MiracleWhip grabage my wife eats!), 5 “sloppy” pieces of REAL thick hickory-smoked bacon, red leaf lettuce, and 2 big thick slices of a perfectly ripe red ‘mater.

Can’t beat that on a hot Az night for dinner!

Banger

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About 30 min's ago I found four mater's all nice and red, not huge but they is ripe :happy dance:
Making a bacon and Wonder Bread run right now , got plenty of Blue Plate , lettuce and cheese !
And the best part is , I'm not on a restricted diet .......Life is good !
Now for the hard part...toast bread or plain bread...or one of each !
Gary

[MaryB]

Gotta be on toast!!!

[Lloyd Smale]

like me a blt. I eat mostly wheat bread but a blt has to be on white.

[gwpercle]

like me a blt. I eat mostly wheat bread but a blt has to be on white.
Toast bread , plain bread or does it really make any difference ?

[bangerjim]

Toasted gives that unqiue crunchy mouth feel I expect with a BLT. My grandmother made them that way. My mom made them that. And I make them that way. I do not like soft squishy white bread BLT’s! It’s like putting ketchup and mustard on a piece of medium rare perfectly cooked ribeye steak! It just doesn’t work for me.

But eat what you want.

[gwpercle]

Toasted gives that unqiue crunchy mouth feel I expect with a BLT. My grandmother made them that way. My mom made them that. And I make them that way. I do not like soft squishy white bread BLT’s! It’s like putting ketchup and mustard on a piece of medium rare perfectly cooked ribeye steak! It just doesn’t work for me.

But eat what you want.

Family traditions are important our Grandmothers knew some stuff.

I like them either way but slightly prefer toast bread , if you have real juicy tomatoes , the soft untoasted bread gets juice logged and you need to stand over the sink and eat fast before things start falling apart...but sink BLT's are good too , just different.

My next experiment is going to be BLT with Pimento Cheese....might just start my own tradition !
Gary