What a beautiful sight!!!

I wanna start with one (yeah, there are many) of my biggest culinary pet peeves. It concerns the infamous BLT. The BLT is my second favorite sandwich in the whole world. But I can’t seem to order one at a restaurant that’s worth darn! ANY restaurant. Doesn’t matter which one (I won’t name names). . . You see it on the menu, it sounds great, the waiter places it in front of you, you open it and have a look. . . 3 – 4 measly slices of bacon. . . “you’re kidding, right?” is my first reaction. And on top of the bacon is half a head of lettuce and 12 slices of tomato! I ask for a doggy bag and put most of the lettuce and all but 2 slices of the tomato in it for use at home in my next salad. I cut the two slices of bread in half and reconstruct the sandwich to make HALF of a BLT. 3 slices of bacon, a normal amount of lettuce and 2 slices of tomato. And when the check comes I begrudgingly pay the $6 and when asked “How was everything?” I tell them “Worst BLT I’ve ever had! Serious stingy factor on the bacon!”

When you order a BLT at MY house, you get a serious BLT! One pound of regular ol’ bacon makes TWO sandwiches. Big bread too, Health Nut bread. (I despise white bread and you won’t ever find it in my house. Whole wheat, full bodied bread – that’s all you’ll ever find). If we’re talkin’ thick sliced bacon from the butchers counter, then we can stretch a pound of it to make 3 sandwiches.

Favorite Sandwich: Meatloaf. MY meatloaf. Two thin slices of meatloaf (1/2 inch) on Health Nut bread spread with Miracle Whip… nothing else. Here’s MY meatloaf recipe:

1.5 lbs 80/20 Hamburger

2 eggs

1 pkt Lipton Onion Soup Mix

1 tablespoon garlic powder

1 tablespoon pepper

1 onion diced fine

Mix it all up, form it into a loaf (no loaf pan) and bake @ 375 for 1 hour. Take out, coat with catsup and back in for 30 min. (spoon out all that grease before putting it back in) When you take it out, spoon out any more grease from the pan and let it sit for 15 min. before slicing. If you kick it up to 2 pounds of hamburger, simply add 2 pkts of the Lipton Onion Soup Mix and a tad bit more of the spices.

I serve this with mashed potato’s, gravy (packets or jarred), corn and some sort of nice bread. Truly a comfort food/meal of mine. . . and let’s not forget them sandwiches! My aunt Rosey gave me this recipe years and years ago. Her son Buzzy told me a story of how one night she had made him a couple of these sandwiches to take to work for lunch – the night shift. When it came time for him to eat (and he was very much anticipating said sandwiches), one of his sandwiches was missing! Being a cop in training, he put his detective skills to work and found the culprit, and promptly punched his lights out. VERY understandable!

“Touch my meatloaf sandwich, and I kill you in the face!” – (see Heirloom Phrases over there in Categories)

Final note: Lot’s o(but not all) f the photo’s I use here on RTPAP are from my photo clip art supplier sight. I have a subscription to a pro site that has millions of images to choose from. Very expensive shots to buy should you not be a member. Very expensive to be a member too. . .anyway, I go to the site and key in “BLT Sandwich” and 211 photo’s come up. Each and every one of them are of pathetic (but beautiful) BLT’s that I described at the start of this article. So I went with what you see there at the top.

I THINK BACON IS OUR NEXT TOPIC OF CONVERSATION HERE ON RTPAP. What’s your best bacon recipe and or story?

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