B.L.A.T (Bacon Lettuce Avocado Tomato) Sandwich with Aioli Sauce and Feta
Does anyone else have a habit of accidentally insulting people when you mean to compliment them? I do this all the time. You want to tell someone that they are awesome, but then it backfires because your reason for thinking they are awesome is totally lame.
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My old roommate Sarah also had a problem with unintentional backhanded compliments. One time a friend of ours walked into our apartment wearing her hair in low pigtails, and Sarah said, Why, you look just like Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz! For Sarah, I’m sure this would have been a great accomplishment. But instead of a Wow thanks! the girl looked completely crestfallen. I guess she wasn’t going for the youthful innocence look. (Which also leads me to wonder what, exactly, she was going for, but that is a question for another day.)
At least Sarah’s faux pas wasn’t as bad as what someone in high school once told me. A girl in first period looked at me, squinted her eyes and drew closer, and said, Your eyelashes are so long. Before I had time to feel good about that, she went on: It looks like a spider is crawling out of your eye. Um…thanks? Gotta love high school tact.
I can’t even begin to tell you how amazing this sandwich is. And guess what people: I thought it up myself. (If you are about to point out that this sandwich is nothing more than a glorified BLT, read the above situations about tact.) The aioli sauce and feta totally make the sandwich. And the avocado. And you can’t do it without the focaccia. Or the bacon, duh. So pretty much every element of this sandwich is essential. Essentially delicious.
B.L.A.T (Bacon Lettuce Avocado Tomato) Sandwich
with Aioli Sauce and Feta
Source: The Food Charlatan (yes, I am citing myself, because the fact that I came up with my own recipe is so rare and shocking that I feel I deserve it.)
1/4 cup mayonnaise
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1/2 cup feta cheese
4 pieces of focaccia bread, split horizontally
4 slices of bacon, cut in half and
1/2 avocado, sliced
1 tomato, sliced
4-8 pieces of lettuce (I used Romaine)
Cook the bacon. To bake, place the bacon strips on a metal cooling rack. Place the rack on a rimmed baking sheet. (Cover the baking sheet in foil for easy clean up). Bake at 400 degrees for 15-20 minutes, until desired crispiness is achieved. Or you could fry the bacon like normal.
Turn on your oven’s broiler. Spray a baking sheet with nonstick spray. Place the focaccia bread, cut side up, on the pan. In a small bowl, combine mayonnaise, garlic, and lemon juice. Spread aioli sauce on the split pieces of focaccia. Sprinkle one or both sides of the bread with feta cheese (I like to put it on both sides). Broil the bread for about a minute and a half, until the edges of the bread are just turning brown and the cheese is barely melting. Remove from oven promptly.
Place 2 strips of bacon (which is really one strip cut in half) on one side of the bread, topping with tomato, lettuce, and avocado. Add the top of the bread, and voila!! Beautiful BLATs.
Makes 4 sandwiches.
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Your stories remind me of once in 8th grade when a boy pulled my hair all the way across my face so just one eye was showing, and then said with surprise in his voice: “Huh! You’re pretty like this!” Ummm, yeah, thanks for that – every 14 yr old girl wants to hear she’s pretty when her face is covered up.
PS I love aioli. Love it. It should pretty much be on every sandwich. Except those involving peanut butter. Which reminds me, you need to ask me about my banana & almond, peanut butter & chocolate frozen bites. Oh yeah.
Adolescent boys are HORRIBLE. I’m convinced that there is a department of purgatory specifically designated for men suffering for the things they said to girls between the ages of 11-17.
Banana Almond Peanut Butter Chocolate Frozen Bites????? You haven’t told me about this and you still call yourself my sister??
Someday when you are a famous and have dozens of cookbooks out with all your original recipes, I’m going to say that I knew you from the beginning when you created B.L.A.T.s. And then I’ll be famous from association.
Ha. If I’m ever going to write a cookbook, I’m pretty sure my editor would force me to name my sandwiches something more appetizing than BLAT. Unless it was a roadkill sandwich or something…..
Light bulb!!!