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The third lunch I made in the triumvirate of lunches is a tuna salad with avocado. It’s nothing special but the avocado gives it a gourmet flavor.

I used a tin of albacore tun, the fancy stuff, two dollops of mayonaise, half an avocado, a quarter of a red onion diced, some lemon, some pepper and salt, and a minced clove of garlic. That’s it. Throw them all into a bowl and mix together, dollop out onto toasted bread, and add some shredded lettuce.

Yumm-o!

The sandwich was good and the tuna salad was still better the next day for breakfast. What went wrong was using too much mayo and perhaps more salt than I should be using. All things that will be fixed the next time I make some tuna salad. I’m also thinking adding some herbs and spices a la Akeshia’s suggestion.

So what have I learned when I made myself lunch this past week? Baked bacon is a gift from the gods. Sandwiches are easy to make. Just take a look at a B.L.T. whose ingredients are in its name. Mango salads are best made with slightly less ripe mangoes. Red onions are as pungent as any other onion. Iceberg lettuce is flavorful too.

Bacon. Avocado. Lettuce. Tomato.

Awesome.

After doing the tomato mango salsa salad, it’s time to use the lettuce for sandwiches. Today was the B.L.T. with the avocado twist.

I used the old baked bacon trick. This time baked for only 12 minutes on a foil covered cookie sheet. I took four of those slices for the sandwich, ate one hot out of the oven, and still have two more for tomorrow’s tuna salad sandwich.

On toasted whole grain bread, I spread a smidge of mayonnaise. Then I put a couple of slices of tomatoes. I don’t usually put tomatoes on a sandwich because they are notorious at causing the dreaded spill of fillings. You bite into a sandwich with a tomato and most times the sandwich fillings with the tomato get squeezed out the backside. So, I place the tomatoes onto the bread to keep them in place. The lettuce goes next, and I probably put too many leaves. The four slices of bacon, and finally the avocado.

Now, it tasted pretty good at work, but probably tasted so much better freshly made this morning. It also could’ve used more slices of bacon, but really anything tastes so much better with more bacon.