The Perfect BLT
Monday, July 07, 2008
For me, summer’s about the BLT. Not a lot of cooking involved and the better the tomato, the better it tastes. 
This one has the last of the oak leaf lettuce from the garden (seeds from Seed Savers Exchange), tomato from Fitler Square farmers market, country French loaf from Versailles bakery (also Fitler Square—they have fantastic and unbelievably reasonably priced pastries as well), and cottage bacon from the Meadow Run Farm Buying Club.
Cottage bacon?? I’d never heard of it before, either. 
It’s like a cross between Canadian bacon and regular bacon—nice and meaty, tastes terrific. (Apologies for the poor photo—makes us all appreciate food stylists now, doesn’t it.)
For reference, Versailles Bakery is at a number of Farm to City markets too—City Hall on Wed. afternoons, Jefferson Hospital on Thurs. afternoons, and Rittenhouse Square on Saturdays.
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I’ll have to tell my husband about the bacon - he’s the biggest fan ever!