BTC Sammich

Nothing says summer like a BLT.  Crisp bacon with beautifully ripe tomatoes and crisp flavorful lettuce (the lettuce is clearly the least interesting part, but it's tradition).  So in order to ring in the warm weather and grilling I thought I'd have a nice BLT.  Well as fortune had it, there was no lettuce in my apartment so I had to get a little creative.  I decided to model it after the bahn mi sandwich of Vietnam.  Crisp vegetables, normally carrots and cucumbers, and fragrant herbs (cilantro) are paired with meat on a baguette to create a refreshing sandwich perfect for those blisteringly hot days where even siting up makes you sweat.  We had some fennel and pepper bacon that we actually got around to smoking this time rather then cooking it in the oven.  Fry up three slices of thick-cut bacon slice up some nice tomatoes (it's still a little early in the season so these were mediocre) slice some carrots thin, a mandolin makes this very easy.  I toasted a portion of a baguette, spread on some homemade mayonnaise and dressed it all up with some fresh rosemary.  Stellar.  On a final note, get ready for more madness as now my partner in crime, Tom, will actually be posting on the site.  It'll be interesting to see how this goes, it might turn out slightly schizophrenic...