Tag: mmm

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.

Once more, this morning I made some soup. It’s gonna a be good because soup’s good food whenever a nor’easter rolls through.

Today’s soup is called a Hearty Mushroom Soup. It’s main ingredients is mushrooms. The recipe calls for porcini and shiitake mushrooms. The porcini had to be steeped in the broth to rehydrate. After twenty minutes the broth took on a nice delicious brown color. The original recipe called for celery, but I didn’t want to have several stalks sitting in my fridge so I abandoned that for some potato. Along with that I sautéed onions, orange bell pepper, and garlic in butter. Then I dumped in the mushrooms before adding the broth and 1/4 cup of barley. Boy, do I love barley.

As you know I’m looking out for my salt intake, although I wanted this soup to taste better. So I cut the salt down by half to 1/8 teaspoon after adding soy sauce and a dash of tabasco. The soup is also creamy. The recipe called for half and half plus some thickening agent in 2 tablespoons of flour.

After simmering for about 10 minutes, it’s done. Garnish with some scallions.

Looks good. Tastes good.

I still need to learn how to chop things better. I left the potatoes and bell pepper pieces too big. I should’ve cut down more on the salt for my health and not for the taste especially I should’ve used less soy sauce. Now I need to make more soup stock. This time perhaps beef broth.