Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich
Bacon, lettuce, and tomato sandwiches are like gazpacho and Caprese salads — they’re all about the tomato. If the tomato you are using is sub par, it just isn’t worth it.
Therefore, if you are a fan of the BLT, your window of opportunity has opened, and like other seasonally specific food, you need to get ‘em while the getting is good.
The fellows in the photo above are our first BLTs of the year. They are also a near perfect amalgam of local food. The bread was homemade. So was the mayonnaise, made with eggs laid less than two days before at Pennypack Farm. The pasture raised bacon was from Meadow Run Farm in Lancaster County, the lettuce from Paradise Organics, also in Lancaster County, and the tomatoes, which were gorgeous, were from New Jersey.