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I’ve always thought the BLT is the perfect sandwich! It’s just the perfect marriage of tastes. But like a lot of others I’m a Dukes girl, I was raised on it as you were with Hellmans. But I have even more of a reason to be a loyal Dukes girl, about 5 years ago my mother now 97 strong gave me a small stack of letters from my dad during WWII one night I was cooking supper and they were on the table and I asked my daughter to read a couple to me so she got about half way through the first one and my dad said “ honey could you maybe send me a jar of mayonnaise Dukes if you can find it, there’s nothing like it over here (he was all over Europe then) and I really miss it. Well we both laughed cause he always did love it especially with a tomato sandwich. So my daughter said I think I’ll tweet this to the Dukes company if someone sees it they can get a good laugh too. Well about a week later she calls a work Mom! Mom! The Dukes people tweeted back to me and said they are doing a 100 year anniversary book about the Dukes company and would love to include that part of the letter in the book! I said tell them if they’ll include a picture of mom & dad from back then we’ll send the pictures of both. So she did and they said they would love to, and sent my mom a copy of the book with a very nice letter thanking her for letting them use the letter and they’re picture in the book. So if you ever see the Dukes mayo 100 year anniversary book look in the middle and you’ll see my mom and dad. I hope you get a laugh from it too! 😂

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

What a great story!! Thank you for sharing it 😀 I will think of them every time I see Dukes now 😀

@QAsession

Жыл бұрын

What a great story!!!

@melrose795

Жыл бұрын

Oh, I love that story..what a treasure!

@gkskforever6909

Жыл бұрын

How wonderful is that! Thanks for sharing.

@staceyn2541

Жыл бұрын

So glad I clicked on read more! Great story, and now your family is Duke history. :)

I can't remember if I mentioned this in a comment before on your channel. But when my Memaw died this past year, my aunts found 150 recipes she kept from through out her life. My cousin turned them into a cookbook that everyone got last Christmas. I'm a retired Chef and I helped my cousin form the book. Memaw would send me her hand written recipes when I was going to college in Tallahassee. The one she wanted me to try the most was a home made light bread. Thats all she talked about. I never made it. I have the hand written one, and the one from her cook book. Your channel keeps reminding me that thats the first thing I need to make when I finish remodeling my Kitchen!!!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

What a treasure! So glad you have those wonderful recipes 😀

@kristycook6041

Жыл бұрын

Christmas ain't that far off 'tween now and then Publish that cookbook With pictures of the hand-written recipes, And pictures and stories of memaws life... the love, wounds, joys, losses, hurts, births, deaths, celebrations, griefs, the hats, the tobacco and oranges and peppermint, the beauty of hand made gifts, and the make something outa nothing recipes. "150 Truths...and the Love that Made It Possible" You'd be surprised how many people would purchase That cookbook. Ain't no tellin' what can change a persons life If they don't talk their way out of it. Many many blessings GQ Speed.

@deewinston5651

Жыл бұрын

We love BLT’s. I prefer white bread but I will eat whatever we have. I need to make your bread recipe. Tipper do you have a recipe for Oat Nut bread. It is getting so expensive at the store. Thanks for sharing.❤️

@Gqspeed13

Жыл бұрын

@@kristycook6041 Thank you!!!

Thank you so much for making an old lady cry. I haven’t heard anyone call bread light bread since I lost my sweet granny.

My mom called store bought white bread, light bread. All of her family came out of the south, Scots Irish who settled all over Appalachia. Her generation worked themselves into Wyoming following the oil fields. Her dad was an oil field mechanic. That scattered the family into Wyoming and Utah. We worked ourselves up into north Idaho, it’s good country. We’re having a warm fall this year in the mountains of north Idaho, we’re working like dogs trying to get ready for winter. Your channel is rather like going over to family members house for a visit. I love it. Blessings, TeresaSue.

My uncle used to manage a country club that was about 45 miles east of us and my sister and I went worked with him one day which we would do occasionally. He had them fix us their club sandwich. That was like a BLT with chicken salad on it but the way they prepared it, they put one bread, then put the the mayonnaise the lettuce and tomato, then they would put another bread and put the chicken salad and bacon on it and then cover it with the third slice of bread. After that they would cut it in four and put toothpicks in each one. We felt so fancy when we would go over there and all it was was a BLT with chicken salad but it was delicious. You always seem to jog past memories for me.

I love how Matt faithfully puts his plate in front of the camera right before he walks away to eat.lolo What a great meal. I am making BLT's tomorrow for sure after watching this. Unfortunately my tomatoes will pale in comparison from yours.:(

Raw spinach is really good with bacon and tomato instead of lettuce, more vitamins too! Sunbeam King Thin white bread is our favorite loaf, toasted and with Duke’s mayo. 😊

These videos remind me so much of my grandma who was an excellent cook from the Appalachians in West Virginia. She had a huge garden every year and canned a lot of what they grew. I wish I’d gotten more time with her. She was a hardworking and amazing woman.

Nothing but nothing beats this classic sandwich..it was a staple in our home. Even had it after school 🙏❤🇨🇦🤷‍♀️delicious!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

It is so good 😀

I use a spoon like my daddy did. He is no longer with us. But he was born in Kentucky. Love your You Tube channel.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😀 I know you miss him something terrible!!

Nothing is better in the summertime than a BLT if you have a fresh Garden tomato....some potato chips and a glass of ice cold milk .

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😀 So good!

There is something very comforting and grounding in watching your videos. They are snippets of gentleness and simplicity in this chaotic world…thank you ✨

We recently started making egg salad BLTs. It was in one of my cookbooks and it elevates the regular BLT in my opinion especially if there aren’t many sides. 😊

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

That sounds good 😀

I have much respect for Matt. That is how you plate and eat your BLT. no nonsense, no fuss, no bother. Some days and/or nights food is just fuel.

I'm a purist too, regarding my "perfect" BLT (although I use Miracle Whip), but years ago a friend took me out to eat lunch at a "LadiesTea Room", located in a historic antebellum home in the Belle Meade community near Nashville. We ordered the Signature BLT, built on house-made hearty, toasted sourdough bread, freshly made mayonnaise, hickory-smoked bacon, icy-cold leaf lettuce, and a layer of crispy, hot, cornmeal battered, fried green tomatoes. Oh, my word!!! Best BLT Ever!! Certainly too labor intensive for a quick lunch sandwich at home - but a real treat!

THE BEST sandwich! The light bread is essential.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

I agree 😀

@grammyb5216

Жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia I meant to say THANK YOU 😊

I love how your pans look real with food! They are how my pans look :-) I don't understand how people online always have brand-new looking pots and pans.

One year I was bemoaning the fact I had so many green tomatoes still on the vine before our first frost was coming and an older gentleman told me to pick them and put a good layer of newspaper in the bottom of a cardboard box and lay the tomatoes down in a single layer, then cover with another generous layer of newspaper and then check them every week and take out the ripe ones to eat. He also said some people just wrap the individual tomatoes in a sheet of newspaper and stack them in a box, but he thought it was too much work to unwrap them all to find the ripe ones. I did it the way he told me with the layers of newspaper and it worked wonderfully!! I had some ripe tomatoes to almost Thanksgiving. We only had one tomato out of dozens to go bad! You can put up to 2 layers of tomatoes in a box, if you do more layers, the weight of the upper layers squish the ones on the bottom.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Granny does that 😀

@janmiles6262

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip!!! One fall we had 2 big tomato vines, loaded, I picked about 2 boxes of green tomatoes, I gave to our neighbor and my in-laws. They told me to wrap them in newspaper, placing them in 2 layers would be much easier!!

I eat BLTs put together like yours except I always put the tomato next to the bread. That way, the juice soaks into the bread instead of dribbling on me.🙂

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Good tip!

don't think I've made a BLT w/out the A(vocado) in decades - such the perfect complement. I know bacon is salty, but I always salt a raw tomato...just brings out so much more tomato flavor. pretty much always do my bacon in the oven, and for a sandwich, have to have that extra diagonal piece. thick, peppered bacon is a fav. nobody else in my family likes the bread the way I do, but I am a "rare toast" girl at my core; barely tanned, just like me.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Jessica 😀

@beverlystarcher8522

Жыл бұрын

Same here, I have to have that extra (diagonal) piece of bacon on my BLT. Sometimes I will put two diagonal pieces... can't help it. I love bacon and I love BLT's.

My mom and Nana cook the bacon in a skillet on low heat and covered, stirring it now and then. Piled high and deep on toast, mayo, lettuce and tomato. It made the bacon tender not overly crunchy. Crunchy bacon can break a tooth was their reason.😋🥓🥪

Gotta Love a BLT 😋. Now I Know that Matt made him another 🥪🥪 sandwich off camera, one is Never enough 😂.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😀 Thank you!

I'm a Dukes fan. I never liked mayonnaise, but Dukes has a tasty twang from lemons. And I do love it,

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Mark 😀

@r.j.wheels6755

Жыл бұрын

It’s the best

Guessing I'm the odd duck... since I was raised vegetarian. Tomato, green leaf lettuce, thinly sliced onion light on salt & Miracle Whip on store bought white bread is the closest I have had. Our need for food is what brings us together & to share memories.😊

Light bread, Mayo both sides(I look spoons too😊), tomato then bacon then lettuce(salt pepper on tomato) is my preferred layering. Thanks for the supper idea tonight! ❤

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

You are welcome and thank you for watching 😀

@marthaross6301

Жыл бұрын

I do mine the same layering pattern. Sometimes I will add avocado 🥑 if I have it. Generally a purist

I converted from Hellmans to Dukes last year. And I use a butter knife but sometimes a spoon. Add a few dashes of hot sauce to the mayo & some thinly sliced onions for the best BLT you'll ever have.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Matt would love the hot sauce 😀

We anxiously wait for the first tomatoes out of the garden each year. We love our BLT'S. My wife likes mayo but I like Miracle Whip.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Those fresh tomatoes make them so good 😀

@kaystarnes269

Жыл бұрын

I love miracle whip and my hubby likes dukes..

It’s also good with Thanksgiving Turkey and avocado added to make it a club . My kids love BLT s but I hate frying bacon I always get popped with grease so I will try the oven method . Thank you ❤

I toast white bread for my BLT's & cook the bacon in the oven. Also prefer Hellman's on both pieces of bread, S & P one side then lettuce, tomato (S&P), bacon, and occasionally a slice of cheddar. Avocado is good also, but like you I don't have them readily available. To me these are summer in a sandwich. Amazing to have found those ripe garden tomatoes - nothing better! Such a blessing

Miss Tipper, you ain't crazy. I growed up in my family using a spoon for Mayo, Miracle-Whip, peanut butter/jelly, etc. We us to say the people who used the "butter knife" were "highfalutin" people. Haha

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Ha Ha 😀 Love that! I'll tell Matt he is highfalutin 😀

@STL_Miah

Жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia haha love it! If you ever get a chance to come to St. Louis, MO, there is a restaurant/candy store here called Crown Candy you will have to visit. They are known for their BLTs ... because it has like a full pound of crispy bacon on the sandwich.

About as classic as it gets right there. From time to time I put a fried egg on mine, (B,E,L,T). I do like the avocado when I remember to buy them. Lately I've been using fried SPAM instead of bacon because it all went into my chili Saturday morning. I recently learned of another favorite sandwich that Elvis loved. It's called a "Colorado Fools Gold ". A loaf of French bread with some removed and loaded with peanut butter, jelly, and a pound of bacon. 4 days worth of calories in one sandwich. I'm not that brave anymore. Thanks guys and stay safe.

We often use a spoon to spread spreadable things! I wasn’t raised doing that. It was out of necessity once, and I much prefer it over a knife. We also cut pizza with scissors! There ya go! Mary

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

We use scissors for pizza too 😀

Hellman's baby! That's it. Where I am, people either use Hellman's or nasty Miracle Whip. My cousin is so bad that he is known to bring a jar of Hellman's with him during the holiday's where many people serve turkey sandwiches at their parties. His sisters husband loves Miracle Whip so when they invite our side, my cousin brings the potato salad and the largest size jar of Hellman's for all of us to use for our sandwich. Luckily, it's all done in fun, but I'm not sure what would happen if he forgot the Hellman's. 😄

Our Blt's are always made with white bread, Duke's Mayonnaise, Wright's Thick Bacon, Crisp Iceberg Lettuce and Fresh sliced tomatoes, sprinkled with salt and pepper. Love them, especially in the summer.

My childhood treat was to be taken to the Walgreen's lunch counter for a BLT lunch: sandwich, fries and a Coke - 75-cents. Toasted Wonder Bread (mayo on both sides), 3 slices of bacon, iceberg lettuce and a slice of beefsteak tomato. Since then I've had all manner of BLT - abominations, all! Forget your fancy bread and radish sprouts! So, just a month or so ago, having talked to my wife about my childhood BLT, I went out and bought the proper ingredients, although I had to buy a "heirloom" tomato since the beefsteak seems to be extinct. Yes, I haven't lost the touch! They were great.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Love that Bill 😀

It's the best way !! I always make it that way 🙂.. oh I'm a bit homesick right now too... 😢

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

It is so good! Sorry you're homesick!!

@SoFloPatriot

Жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia Thank you! I will survive 😜 Just have to make a visit ..

Looks good! I'm on a seefood diet : ) I see food and I eat it😂

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😀 Thank you Rowdy!

I'm with you on the Hellmann's 👍 GOD bless you and your family.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Gary!

@garycornwell2431

Жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia Your very welcome and thank you for your videos.

I love that you use Hellmann's mayonnaise. That's the only kind we use here in our house, and we love it. When I was growing up in Mississippi, my mother always bought Blue Plate mayonnaise, but I can't find that here in the Midwest, so Hellmann's it is. You just can't go wrong with a good old BLT!

I don't understand why anyone would use anything but light bread for a BLT (or a PBJ). One of life's mysteries. Love a BLT for breakfast!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😀

I like darker bread, usually. But it's white bread for my BLTs! I put a bit of pepper on mine ☺️ Oh Matt likes pepper to, I see! I got my Love of black pepper from my Grandpa🤎

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

He does love pepper 😀

My Mom always used a spoon to spread ANYTHING spreadable. Of course I do like my Momma did. I hate using knives to spread things.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Light bread was a staple for our sandwiches at lunch and our supper. My grandpa needed bread for his gravy and to sop up his plate

Lovely meal sounds so yummy. Have a wonderful evening!❤️🇺🇸

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! You too!

Sometimes we like a fried egg on our BLT. We love your channel too!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😋

I love watching Matt fix his plate!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😀

My late mother-in-law could buy anything and eat anywhere she wanted. To her the best thing to eat was a BLT. She said it was the perfect meal in a sandwich! I love BLT's on light bread. Your video made me hungry!

When I started working straight out of high school, my colleagues and I would walk across the street from our office job to the Piggly Wiggly main offices where they had a cafeteria. One of the things I bought there and loved, was their BLT. As a Hispanic I had never ever heard, seen, or tasted such a delicacy. I brought the sandwich idea home and prepared it for my family to try first chance I got. Very classic and refreshing and 😋 delicious. That was decades ago. My own family also enjoys this treat very much. Thanks for the vlog...those tomatoes looked amazing. Im sure their taste was great.

We grew up calling it light bread. Not many people around here know what I mean when I say it anymore. I love your videos and it is neat that you are helping keep the old ways alive. It is something near and dear to my heart, as well. We have lived in East Texas for several generations now, but my family came here from North Carolina.

I've been using a spoon for over 40 years to spread butter, mayo, jelly or anything most people use a knife for. I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one.

That was a meal fit for a king. Everything looked fantastic.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😋

A sandwich ain't a sandwich without Miracle Whip! God bless.

I like sourdough bread toasted and rubbed with garlic then hellmans, lettuce smoked bacon and tomatoes with salt and pepper. My favourite sandwich of all time.

I had a fried green tomato, bacon, lettuce, hamburger with feta cheese on toasted sourdough bread, last week at a local restaurant. I only got the half sandwich that came with a side order of buttermilk fried squash. I was stuffed! It was absolutely delicious!

Wow, I just had lunch meat and cheese sandwich and a glass of milk and a few peanut butter crackers but this video is making my mouth water and my stomach growl!! Wow!! Jealous over here!! 😍😋🤩😘 Yes, nothing like a BLT sandwich with Hellman's mayo! My absolute favorite mayo even to make tuna and potato salad with! 🙏🍞🙏🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥪🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🍞🍞

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Iris 😀

Mmmmmmm my favorite Cherokee tomatoes on BLT!!! 😋 On another note...let's all take a moment to remember Loretta Lynn one of the most legendary Appalachian artists . 😪🙏🕊🥀

Yum!! Love BLT sandwiches! Thick cut bacon, chewy-crisp and Hellman’s! Cheese fries? Yes, please! Good for cool evenings now! It has been an old fashioned fall so far.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

It really has and I'm loving it 😀 Thank you for watching!

@Sweetpea1128

Жыл бұрын

@@CelebratingAppalachia I am too! 🍁🍂😃

Growing up we only had wonder white bread in the house and my mother was partial to oscar meyer bacon. She made the most amazing BLTs ever. If we were lucky we'd also get a side of potato chips : ) These days I mostly eat multigrain bread ('cause my Dr says so) but about once a year when the first tomatoes ripen I break down and buy light bread. I stay busy that week going between tomato sandwiches and BLTs. Don't know if you've tried Bentons Bacon but if you haven't give it a try. It's really good and locally sourced (well local to East Tennessee anyway).

@LuwanaWard1974

Жыл бұрын

I’m from East Tennessee 30 miles north of Knoxville but I’ve never heard of Benton’s bacon I love Smithfield’s since I can’t get Lays anymore and Kraft Mayo

@marthakemp127

Жыл бұрын

I have been using Benton’s bacon for years. It is the best. Especially for seasoning beans, peas and greens.

I love BLTs and I always put a fried egg on my sandwich. Yes I enjoy Dukes mayo having lived in NC where I learned to eat that mayo. My favorite is Hellmans.

We had BLTs last night for dinner. I add sliced avocado to mine and I sprinkle pepper over the sliced tomato. Such a yummy sandwich 🥪 😋

We eat ours just like you - bacon, lettuce, tomato with mayo on toasted white bread. In fact, that is what I had planned for lunch tomorrow! And I always cut our sandwiches diagonally, just like my mother did when I was growing up.

I love a good BLT! We do them pretty much the same way as you did, including the Hellman's. I also love to cook my bacon in the oven. I used to always fry it, but I saw someone on the Food Network (I think) cook it in the oven and I've been doing it that way ever since. It's so much easier to do it that way!

I love a good BLT! I like to add a slice of cheddar cheese to mine.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

I bet that is good 😀

I have kind of got addicted to yours and the girls channel. Over in Briar Town at Nantahala we always referred to the folks in Murphy as the rich folks. I wish I could go home one more time before I die, I am 81 and for some dumb reason I put roots down in Ocala Florida many years ago.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing that memory!! I wish you could make it back home too. One of my best friends lives in Nantahala-such a beautiful place 😀

We love BLT’s. I always put a slice of onion on mine, and a piece of cheese. And, I MUST salt and pepper the tomato layer of it. So delicious. We love Hellmans OR Dukes mayo. I always serve it with homemade potato soup, or hand cut French fries. Or sometimes, potato chips.

A lot of people now days don't know what Light Bread and Sweet milk are. I use a Tablespoon to dip my Hellmann's out with also ! Thick Bacon all the way . I'm 76 years young some days , LOL.

Southern New Hampshire here…BLT is my favorite. Made exactly the same. Some of my favorite variations include adding sliced red onion, American cheese and pickles. During the summer when the tomatoes are the best from the garden, we have these at least once a week. We may also make it a turkey club sandwich by adding a third slice of bread and turkey to the BLT. Just love your content and feel a kindred spirit having Appalachian mountains in my state. Thanks for sharing your culture.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Elizabeth 😀

“Who put the flavors together” I ALWAYS think that about potato salad! What wonderful imagination came up with that? I’m guessing in France because of the mayonnaise. I was so surprised when I was young and got to go to Switzerland the first meal we got in a little café had a salad and basically it was potato salad. It didn’t look exactly like our potato salad. The potatoes were cut in round slices instead of chunks, but it was still basically potato salad And it was good!

The best BLT was a Fried Green Tomato BLT. It takes a BLT to another level. Had it at the Hominy Grill in Charleston S.C.

My favorite sandwich of all time is the BLT. I use Miracle Whip. Your supper looked delicious.

Thick pepper bacon, apple wood smoked, mayo with a spoon, romaine and some heirloom tomato with a splash of balsamic on the other piece of bread and the bread is homemade Sourdough. Love it with a couple kinds of homemade pickles. We lived A-ok in the Ozark Mountains of MO. You make difference so thanks.

Our family on west coast make a traditional BLT. Toasted bread, Mayo, Lettuce and Plenty of thick bacon. We do add avocado frequently as they are abundant here.

Making one and adding a slice of American cheese is so good. My kids and grandkids love my BLTs. Sometimes I just have tomato and Mayo sandwich on light bread too.

I'm from Oregon and it's called Best Foods mayonaise west of the Rocky mountains. It's still my preferred mayo. Since retiring to GA I tried Dukes but I still prefer Best Foods-Hellmanns. B L Ts with a homegrown tomato..yum! Blessings from GA.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you 😀

Just started watching you channel. I’m in Colorado now but I was raised in Missouri. Most of what you eat and how you live is just like I did. The best BLTs we had was with our homegrown tomatoes and lettuce. There is something about your presentation that draws me back to view more of your videos! It’s like I’m next to you as you talk! Your family is the same way. The twins are young and pretty and full of life and you and Matt are more quiet and reserved, yet with the confidence one earns through life’s ups and downs. I will do more watching of your past video and your new ones. Happy Holidays. Thanxz

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Welcome and thank you 😀

My grandparents were Dutch/ German, and when I visited them in northwest Iowa a bacon sandwich was thick cut toasted rye bread, buttered of course, thick cut bacon, very thinly sliced hot yellow onion, and a generous slathering of Boetjes horseradish mustard.

BLTO sandwich.... we always slice a sweet onion in very thin slices. As thin as you can get them. Added that to the rest. Yummmy! Thanks Tipper. Those Cheese potatoes look good too!

Ha. I use a spoon also to dip and spread my mayo. I also use a little mustard and occasionally I like a little red onion sliced very very thin. With potato chips and a glass of sweet tea you've got a southern favorite.

Something I started doing recently, I put 2 slices of bread into the same slot of the toaster. When they come out, one side is toasted and the other stays soft. Makes a great sandwich! Another big advantage, there are less toast crumbs so eating is neater. I don't like biting into the crispy toast, it scratches my mouth sometimes. So, mayo on the toasty side. I also have facial paralysis and can't open my jaw very wide so this makes the sandwiches less messy if I have to mush them a bit. Great with egg sandwiches, too. (And I like finding fewer crumbs in my cleavage after dinner, too.)

We like to fry up an egg and include that on our sandwich. Sometimes we might include a slice of cheese too. That slaw looks so good!

I grew up learning about case knives,which we now call butter knives and case quarters..Good to hear you say that.The old way has faded in my area

My husband grew up having BLTs w his Granny w Hellmans on one side and peanut butter on the other! Says very good!!! Grew up in the south!

Matt made his in the correct order. BLTs are my favorite summer sandwich. I sometimes use brown bread and avocado…. Sometimes add tuna salad with the bacon…. And even a slice of turkey lunch meat if I have that.

One of my favorite meals 😋 looks delicious

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

😀

My favorite summertime sandwich. Your tomatoes look delicious.

Yummy 😋. Brings back sweet memories. Thanks for sharing!

Nothing like a good ol’ BLT. The crispy bacon makes it Oh so good!! Looks so good! About could smell it through the video! Yum yum! 😋😋😋🥰

Our springtime recipe for blt is Walmart store brand sourdough bread toasted,duke’s mayo,lettuce,thick cut smoked bacon,and fried green tomatoes. I like a few bread and butter pickles to go with it

BLT and also Meatloaf sandwiches are my favorite sandwiches!

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Those are good too 😀

You know I love all kinds of bread...even different types of lettuce....but growing up in the 50's and 60's despite my Mom's wonderful homemade bread, a BLT consisted of store bought white bread...toasted or not....plus mayo, three strips of bacon, tomato slices...preferably home grown ones....and original old iceberg lettuce.....the kind that comes in the big round head. I love other types of salad greens when I'm having a salad, but thinking on it, those fancier lettuces may not have even been in grocery stores. The variety of food available in grocery stores today is night and day different than when I grew up.

@CelebratingAppalachia

Жыл бұрын

Thank you Greg 😀

I like just blt with Hellman's mayonnaise. And the knife you were speaking of we refer to as a butter knife.

BLT... Bacon, Lettuce, Tomato! Served on white/ Lite bread toasted is what I grew up with!

Delicious supper! I am a Hellmans devotee, too. We have a restaurant in Waynesville that has a bacon, lettuce, tomato, avocado sandwich. They call it a BLAT. 🍅 🍞 🥑

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Love that 😀

Looks like a great supper. I also bake my slab bacon in oven on a cookie sheet at 400 for 15 to 20 minutes. I prefer white or split top wheat bread toasted in toaster. I use either Hellmans or Kraft mayonnaise, never heard of Duke. I usually put more bacon on my Blt than you did. When we buy our slab bacon (I never buy prepackaged bacon, too thin for us) I always slice each slice in half before baking. Actually when we buy it and get it home I pile it up evenly and slice it in half before putting in fridge or freezer. This shortened slice size of bacon fits on my cookie sheet better, and is perfect size for sandwich. Then I add the tomato and lettuce. Now I am craving a Blt. Thanks for another great video.

Sure do love your cooking segments.

Reminded of lots of fond childhood memories. 👍❤

Hellman’s surprised me, somehow I was expecting to see Duke’s. BLT with the last of your homegrown tomatoes, it just can’t get much better than that! Thank you, but now I am starved…yum.

I love to fry my bread in bacon grease. I can't be the only one. Plain Ole white bread, fried in hot grease right after you fry bacon is amazing. I fry it until it gets crunchy. I eat it just like that. I don't make a sandwich with it, I just eat it plain. My grandparents from Slovakia/ austria hungry made it for me like this.

We like BLTs also. We live 50 miles east of Nashville, Tn. We eat them exactly like you made them!❤