BOT: tomato sandwiches!

the time has come for tomato sandwiches!

we’ve grown cherokee purples as our only slicing tomato variety this year, and man, they sure are the best. an heirloom variety, they have a purple/red/brown color and at first glance might be overlooked. this makes them all the more delicious!

cherokee purple tomatoes!

tonight we had our first tomato sandwiches of the year. here’s how it went:

1. first, sometime around mid-afternoon i started working on baking a loaf of bread for what i knew would be a super special meal! jason had 2 open-faced sandwiches and i had one open-faced and one regular sandwich. the slices were delicious!
   

   a slice of my homemade bread

2. i mixed up some of our basil mayonnaise with blended and frozen basil from last year’s crop.
   

   basil mayonnaise added to the bread

3. we sliced up a spicy red onion from my dad’s garden this year.
   

   and now the red onions…

4. then we cut up 3 cherokee purple tomatoes into large, thick slices… like big hamburger patties!
   

   cherokee purple slices go on next

5. of course we salted the tomatoes and then added some crispy bacon to the top.

and bacon to top it all off!

this sandwich is a big hit in our house during the summer months! we call it the BOT (bacon, onion, and tomato), since we think onions are a much more important part of sandwich-making than lettuce.

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