Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato (BLT)

     My favorite sandwich is Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato or (BLT); it has been for a while. It wasn't always, but when you try a lot of things your tastes and favorites tend to change. My favorite version of this particular sandwich has: red tomato and lettuce. Also, slightly crispy bacon that's not flimsy or burnt. Bacon that's firm, but not over done. Those three ingredients between rye bread with mayonnaise spread on it.
      First off, obviously the bacon can be cooked to different degrees. I'm pretty sure that bacon is already cooked when it's packaged, don't hold me to it though. Therefore, I suppose you could eat uncooked bacon from the package and put it on a BLT, but I would never. I doubt it tastes good, but I prefer a bit of crunch to my bacon, so I would never eat it uncooked anyway. At any rate, you can put slightly cooked, half done or burnt bacon on your BLT. The burnt will have the strongest taste and will therefore have the greatest impact on the overall taste of the sandwich you put it on, in this case the BLT. I like mine cooked to a medium amount of done.
     Moving on to the next ingredient, lettuce. Believe it or not, lettuce can have a bit of an impact on sandwiches. The first thing worth noting is that you should thoroughly rinse you lettuce. Whether it came from a place that uses pesticides, or just plain has dirt on it, it is good to rinse lettuce thoroughly. I'm sure that you would hate to taste dirt or be poisoned. Aside from that, lettuce can be bland which is why in a salad it is usually accompanied by a dressing. Sense lettuce doesn't have the most flavor ever, I put one slice of it, roughly bread size, on the BLT. If I put too much on it gets everywhere.
     Also, the tomato can have a variety of flavors (or it can be just plain bland) depending on the kind of tomato plant. Tomatoes come in more then one color and each color varies in taste. It's kind of hard to put cherry tomatoes on a BLT, though I suppose you could. Honestly, I've never tried it before; you'd have to slice them and then lay them flat on the sandwich. However, cherry tomatoes is more of a salad conversation. Personally, I just buy the cheapest tomatoes because, in my BLT, I look more for the taste of the bacon.
     And lettuce not forget the bread on either side! Like a said in my Grilled Cheese post, I hadn't always considered other bread besides white bread. Now that I've tried many different kinds of breads on a BLT, I would have to say that rye bread is my favorite bread to use for it. If you mayonnaise the bread to much, the first taste that it is going to cover up is the taste of the bread.
     BLT, being my favorite sandwich, made me consider whether or not I really wanted to experiment with its formula. After all, it was already good, why risk it? I'll tell you why, it could've gotten better, and it did. I changed the bread from white to rye. If I had decided that I didn't like a specific kind of bread I would have just used it for something else anyways, so no waste there.

New things

     No one needs to talk me into trying new things. I'm all for that; you won't know unless you try it, right? In fact, I've tried several things that other people wouldn't try. (Though there is that line. I hear there is a such thing as chocolate covered ant and that's were I draw the line at trying new food.)
     Aside from that, I've tried things like eating pickled eggs, chocolate covered bacon, bacon milkshake, chocolate covered pickles and anchovies. (I'm not saying there isn't people who would eat them without a second thought; I'm just saying that I took the time to try what I wouldn't normally eat.)

I got my bacon milkshake at Denny's along with a few other bacon related products they were selling.

     Despite what people say, I did in fact try swimming before I decided I didn't like it. Not being able to swim may have something to do with it, but I won't even put my feet in the water or as my friends always hear me say 'my big toe'. My big toe always feels like it's going to freeze off. You could almost say I'm paranoid of large bodies of water. Though when I'm not standing in the water or with my big toe in the water, I'm generally one of the warmest people around. Swimming or standing in a lake, ocean or pond just isn't for me.
     Let's see, what else have I tried? I'm not a big roller coaster guy. I've gone on a few, but they just weren't what I thought they'd be. I don't get nauseous easily, but roller coaster do make me feel a little queasy.
     Oh, I'm always watching a new movie. Me and best friend Dale are always going to the movies together. So if you count that as trying something new than I do that quite often. I have a larger view point of good movies than Dale, though not by much. TV shows is something else I watch several of. However I haven't been able to watch as much TV or go to as many movies sense I started going to college. Not that there is always good movies coming out.
     I'm not sure if trying a new class counts or not. Sure it's something new, but if you want to get that degree than you don't have much choice. Though you did choose to go to college and try a whole new experience, so that must count for something....
     Moving on, I've tried many friendships and they have all worked out. I'm now good friends with Dale and Eli. Also, I'm friends with Ginn and Chloe. Furthermore, I've had the pleasure of becoming acquaintance with Lisa, Amanda, Tamara, David, Ronald, Nicholas, Everett, Varro, Matthew, Barnes, Kiva, Camille, Hunter, Ellie and James. I have no girlfriend as of now, but I have no problem trying that if it were to come my way. (A girl who is a great cook would be nice.)
     So, you shouldn't be afraid to try new things when they come your way. I know I'm not. This should mean a lot coming from a guy who tries a lot of new things.

[All pictures that I post on my blog are from the web. I have no camera of my own and, when I borrowed a friends camera, my pictures were really blurry.]