On The BBQ Brethren Forum each week we have a Throwdown. Each member who wants to participates uses the “theme” for that week to cook something. Their entry is then posted and the membership votes. It seems each week the Throwdowns are getting more and more outrageous. This weeks theme is bacon and some of the entries are just plain crazy. Great stuff, but crazy. I decided the best course of action was to take it “down” a notice with a simple Bacon, Avocado, Lettuce and Tomato Sandwich. Nothing spectacular, just simple comfort food.
I stopped at The Fatted Calf yesterday on my way through Napa to pick up a little bacon. The Fatted Calf produces some of the most amazing cured meat products in Northern California. Their slab bacon is simply…amazing.
I sliced off a little bacon to just cover the bread.
I used the Char-Broil RED to cook the bacon.
When it was all done I added some mashed up avocado, some heirloom tomatoes and lettuce. A little slather of mayo made this a nice little sandwich for my entry in the Bacon Throwdown. I’m not sure if my sensible little B.A.L.T. will be good enough to win, but it sure did taste good. (No I didn’t eat the whole thing…in one sitting.)
It sure did or didn’t taste good?
Thanks for the reminder to fix that!
Thought we already did bacon once, all the bacon weaves, bacon explosion and that beer mug made out of bacon. But yeah, folks really go over the top on some of those.
You took the right approach with high quality ingredients, that bacon looks amazing.