2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Ladies-n-Gentlemen...START_YER_ENGINES...Fresh Tomato BLT Season has commenced.
Day 211 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 162 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants clockwise from upper left: Big Bubba (?), Ananas Noire, Virginia Sweets, and Boxcar Willie:

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B-side:

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Sliced; what a gorgeous Line Up, am I right?

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Ready for delicious:

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And a Four (4) Tomato OFer (Open Facer) for the architect of MMBB, the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch:

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The Gotch

[Uncle_Feist]

Scrolled through all 76 pages and narry a Pink Stacy or Old German mater..

One simple way to change that…

Eta: Sorry, I know it’s the wrong time of year, but summer is just around the corner

No need to feel sorry, Mark... This is the joyous time of year I make the bacon!

Lettuce (pun intended) begin here..
After 7 days covered in salt my bacon is rinsed and hung for a couple of weeks to dry, come to equilibrium and to form a pellicle.

Apple Wood smoking begins soon thereafter.


After 40-50 hours of smoke during a 3 week period the bacon has started to take on a rich golden brown color that will only become richer with aging.

Just a couple of weeks ago after a 6 month age I pulled the bacon from the smokehouse and cut it into chunks, vacuum sealed it and into the freezer to wait on a proper mater to ripen.


Patience is finally starting to pay off with a nice cluster of Pink Stacy's beginning to do that wonderful thing.




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Skint and ready!

Nom nom!

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

@Uncle_Feist Now THAT'S what we're talkin' 'bout!

The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

@Uncle_Feist Phenomenal

[Uncle_Feist]

@Uncle_Feist Phenomenal

I appreciate that, Sir!

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

@Uncle_Feist Phenomenal

Not only that, but ALL four (4) food groups represented: Bacon, Mayo, Tomato, & Beer!

The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

@Cornelius_Gotchberg Yup, what beer is that? Not one that I recognize from the corner of a label.

[worth1]

@Cornelius_Gotchberg Yup, what beer is that? Not one that I recognize from the corner of a label.

It's a Ginger Ale caffeine soda that's in Kentucky.
Not beer.
By the way @Uncle_Feist .
What breed of hog was it if I missed you saying it anywhere?
Looks like a heritage breed from the meat.

[worth1]

Here's the stuff.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ale-8-One

[Uncle_Feist]

@Cornelius_Gotchberg Yup, what beer is that? Not one that I recognize from the corner of a label.

It's a Ginger Ale caffeine soda that's in Kentucky.
Not beer.
By the way @Uncle_Feist .
What breed of hog was it if I missed you saying it anywhere?
Looks like a heritage breed from the meat.

I had 2 litter mates that were a cross of a Hampshire boar over a lard type heritage sow. Hampshire's are my least favorite breed for table quality, but the cross with the heritage sow made for some really fast growing and tasty offspring.

[bower]

Two back to back BLT's for supper last night. Yes I have slicers at long last!! Not the world's largest but fit perfectly on my skinny bread shape, and this year is a good one for primo tomato quality, thank goodness.
The Rodney is a brown, always sweet, plummy and meaty, now at F8.
The Kelly's Island Rumpus is an F4 - this particular tomato may be the best I've ever eaten. Tangy, fruity, sweet, and a little spicy note at the end of the bite. F3 parent wasn't nearly this good, so I hope I can stabilize it. The outdoor sibling is also loaded with fruit, and if it's half as good I will want every one of them!
Heated bacon this time and just perfectly warm and crispy, along with the toast.

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[bower]

@Uncle_Feist ... amazing. Thanks for posting the pics of bacon makin.
You are truly where the food is. Better than money can buy.

[MissS]

@bower I'm so glad that you finally got to have a proper BLT. What makes me even happier is to hear how superb your cross is. Once stabilized, we all will be wanting them.

[MissS]

@Uncle_Feist Your bacon is amazing. I can hear and smell it sizzeling in that pan.

[Uncle_Feist]

@bower @MissS
Thank you so much!

[AKgardener]

Even thought I didn’t get to make a blt today we got to try mantina.. its an official must every year hubby says it was perfect

[bower]

@AKgardener when I figure out how to get seeds into the USA again, you should definitely try my home tomatoes. They don't mind the cold so much nor the ups and downs, and they're all sweet and relatively early.
Last year was so nasty with the heat we're not used to, I thought my home tomatoes were not going to be any good for the future. But I put them up against some disease resistant tomatoes this season and they're doing no worse, better if anything. So I think they are worthy, although the dream of 'easy tomatoes' that never need to be pampered might be just impossible.
Still worth it for a delicious BLT.

[AKgardener]

@bower I would love to try your home tomatoes I hope that you will be able to send them someday I shall wait very patiently haha

[bower]

Hopefully next year at the latest, @AKgardener .
Tough climates, we need to share.

[Mark_Thompson]

Decided to slide yesterday, Malachite Box on sweet rolls.

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