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Posts tagged “BLT”

Try This! How To Make Candied Salted Bacon

There comes a time in everyone's life when you're standing in the kitchen at 2am (pants optional) testing recipes. The quickly approaching morning sun seems irrelevant when you're busy creating the s...

Re-Inventing a Summer Classic: Bacon, Lettuce, and...?

Looking at that BLT poster this morning made us crave the real thing. But tomatoes are mighty scarce in some parts of the country right now due to a crop blight in New England. This has forced us to b...

Casual Entertaining: BLTs for Dinner

Why not? It's arguable, but we're not sure there's a better sandwich to eat when tomatoes are at their peak (maybe this one). BLTs take very little effort, and you can customize them with different ad...

Quick Reminder: Cook Bacon Low and Slow

With the arrival of summer tomatoes, we've been eating a lot of BLTs. We spread our bacon slices out in a very large pan and cook them on the stovetop, and we were reminded last night that it pays to ...

National Food Roundup: The New Strawberries and Cream
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 6.3.09

Eating outdoors this weekend? This week's papers have lots of great ideas for fresh, seasonal cooking, with a bit of a twist. How about a strawberry tart with chocolate, mascarpone, and oatmeal crust?...

Tax Night Supper: The Spanglish Sandwich with Avocado

OK everybody — 'fess up: are you staying up late tonight with your tax forms and W-2s? We sincerely hope not, but here's the best supper we can think of for anyone with a late-night deadline: Th...

Craving: BLTs (with REAL Tomatoes!)

All the pork talk this week has us craving our favorite summer sandwich - BLTs, of course! It's not even worth making one with the out-of-season tomatoes right now (especially given the recent press a...

Blogging the Denver Post: The Ultimate Colorado BLT

With the nonstop news coverage switching today from the Olympics in Beijing to the Democratic National Convention in Denver, we thought we'd see what was cooking in The Denver Post. This big, juicy ph...

Look! Chubba Bubba Tomatoes

It’s full-on tomato season in California right now and we’re starting to see all sizes and colors of heirlooms and dry-farmed Early Girls in the markets. But never before have I seen the Chubba B...