2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!

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Sun Aug 11, 2024 11:45 am

@Uncle_Feist
That pork chop looks delicious.
The me a pork chop needs to be well marbled with the fat on the outside fried til crispy.
I was reading The Stand by Stephen King and Mother Abagail had butchered a hog for the folks showing up and the story was describing the crispy fat on the pork chops.
I got so hungry I had to fry up some nice fatty pork steaks.
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Sun Aug 11, 2024 12:07 pm

Thanks, @worth1

The fat cap on porkchops is one of the most important things for me. After it renders down and browns a little it will just melt away when you eat it.

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Post: # 131638Unread post Cornelius_Gotchberg
Mon Aug 12, 2024 9:24 am

Day 225 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 141 remain. Todays participants in Monday Morning BLT Brunch clockwise from top left: Daniel Burson, Black Brandywine (a 1st!), Greenbush Italian Heirloom, and Green Giant
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Rear View:
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Sliced; from left Black Brandywine, Daniel Burson, and Greenbush Italian. Green Giant was a late scratch called "not quite ripe" by Chief BLT Assembly Maven, the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch:
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Aaaaaand plated:
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Greenbush Italian had a mild, real Tomatoey flavor, as did the Black Brandywine. The always delicious Daniel Burson had a more pronounced/little bit stronger taste which I couldn't quite put my finger on...so I deferred to the taste buds, which were reportedly ecstatic!

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Mon Aug 19, 2024 8:38 am

Day 232 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 134 remain. Today's (IMO) SPECTACULAR Monday Morning BLT Brunch featured, clockwise from upper left: Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter, Virginia Sweets, Kellogg's Breakfast, & Daniel Burson:
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Sliced, and what a joy to behold:
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Plated:
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The lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch's OFer (Open Face), clockwise from upper left: Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifter, Daniel Burson, & Virginia Sweets
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Mon Aug 19, 2024 9:17 am

@Cornelius_Gotchberg Now that's a beautiful sight! This is what the BLT is all about.

Which of those fabulous tomatoes tasted the best with the bacon and mayo? We just gotta find the perfect BLT tomato!
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Mon Aug 19, 2024 2:02 pm

MissS wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 9:17 amWhich of those fabulous tomatoes tasted the best with the bacon and mayo? We just gotta find the perfect BLT tomato!
Kinda like asking a parent which one of their five children they love most, am I right? Anywho, all but the VA Sweets were a skosh over ripe, (a très thick-cut Radiator Charlie Mortgage Lifter soaked this afternoon's samitch).

Today...I'd give Daniel Burson the nod. I asked the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch if her fave was still Ananas Noire, to which she replied a noticeably hesitant "yes;" this I took to mean that a few other varieties are creeping up the chart.

Ask 10 people what's their perfect BLT Tomato, you's probably get 10 different answers. Guru Craig LeHoullier says it's a Dead Heat between Brandywine and Cherokee Purple( https://www.wral.com/story/expert-helps ... /17756112/

Because everything's been so late this year, we haven't even tried the Pink Gift or Old German, or 1st timers Hillbilly, Orange Accordion, KY Beefsteak, or a few others, including the Competition Behemoths; our work's cut out for us, but glass half full?

We have something to look forward to!

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Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:34 pm

Uncle_Feist wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:28 pm
Mark_Thompson wrote: Fri Aug 09, 2024 9:14 pm @Uncle_Feist Phenomenal
I appreciate that, Sir!
Thanks for the pictures of the bacon making, it brought back a bunch of old memories of our little town.
The butcher knives wouldn't be Old Hickory, would they?
I agree with @Mark_Thompson Phenomenal.

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Mon Aug 19, 2024 4:57 pm

Ken4230 wrote: Mon Aug 19, 2024 3:34 pm
Thanks for the pictures of the bacon making, it brought back a bunch of old memories of our little town.
The butcher knives wouldn't be Old Hickory, would they?
I agree with @Mark_Thompson Phenomenal.
I think my stickn knife may be an Old Hickory, but mostly other brands. I have several Russell's, Queen, Village Blacksmith and other unmarked knives. And thanks!

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Mon Aug 26, 2024 8:45 am

Day 239 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 127 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch selections are from the Never Tried It category; clockwise from top left: Orange Accordion, Rebel Yell***, Hillbilly, and Elgin Pink*** ***seed H/T to the divine @MissS
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Downside up:
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Sliced, HeyZeus Alou...what an glistening array of Tomato Beauty, am I right?
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Ready for delicious....and DELICIOUS it was!
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Wed Aug 28, 2024 8:40 pm

Daaaaaaamn @Cornelius_Gotchberg what a spread. My season is just about over due to rain, so these last two were a little ahem, thin. Stretched a Garden Peach and one single Juliet into a sandwich and a half. Maruba Santoh for the green. Still delicious and the daughter didn’t complain either.


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Sat Sep 07, 2024 11:12 am

Wifey been making bread which really makes it next level.



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Sat Sep 07, 2024 12:26 pm

Mark_Thompson wrote: Sat Sep 07, 2024 11:12 am Wifey been making bread which really makes it next level.
Looks great; sourdough?

Yer sure jonesin' for thick-sliced Greenies; what type is the full-bodied Reddy?

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Sat Sep 07, 2024 12:38 pm

Recipe was supposed to be a replacement for King’s Sweet Rolls. It’s not exact but works pretty well. Not sure on the red/pink, garden is in such late stages I’m just throwing the few salvageable fruits in the basket, no sharpie labeling.
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Mon Sep 09, 2024 12:17 pm

Day 253 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 113 remain. Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants-clockwise from upper left: Old German, Green Giant, Bacon Lettuce and This, and Dester, first time on the latter three (3):
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Add fresh picked Space Hybrid Spinach, and
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Voilà
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All very tomatoey tasty! Can't wait for the afternoon Tomato Samitch!

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Sun Sep 15, 2024 1:10 am

Little one requested BLT for lunch and I did not argue. Maruba Santoh for the L and Guido for the T.

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Sun Sep 15, 2024 8:19 am

Mark_Thompson wrote: Sun Sep 15, 2024 1:10 am Little one requested BLT for lunch and I did not argue. Maruba Santoh for the L and Guido for the T.
Niiiiice meaty Tomato! That there bacon ain't no slouch, neither. Did you's get the Guido seed from WESconsin?

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Sun Sep 15, 2024 8:51 am

@Cornelius_Gotchberg Of course, the famous Monster Meaty Guido has cracked my, admittedly easily cracked, permanent rotation.
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Sun Sep 15, 2024 9:22 am

Gonna have a tough time narrowing down tomorrow's Monday Morning BLT Brunch selections. We have some late season, near perfect Ananas Noire and Black Brandywine, ergo, a lock.

That's where the trouble starts. Flawless Old German, Hillbilly, Boxcar Willie, Lemonboy Plus, Elgin P{ink, Big Bubba, Big Lou, Big Zac Hybrid, Zapotec Oaxacan, Inzhir Rozoyvi, etc. are all still vine-bound and screaming for the final two (2) slots.

Gosh dang 1st World Problems, am I right...?

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