Summer's Best Blt

Total Time: 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1/2 cup mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup minced fresh basil
• hot pepper sauce, to taste
• 8 large slice bread
• crisp iceberg lettuce leaf (or leaf lettuce or butter lettuce)
• 12 thick slices bacon, smoky variety, fried crisp
• 8 thick slices large red-ripe beefsteak tomatoes
• salt

Recipe

• 1 preheat mayonnaise--mix together mayonnaise ingredients in a bowl.
• 2 the sandwiches--toast the bread until golden brown.
• 3 immediately spread each slice on one side with a full tablespoon of basil mayonnaise.
• 4 arrange the lettuce on top of the mayonnaise on 4 bread slices, adding enough to show off a green fringe for each sandwich.
• 5 pile on equal portions of bacon and tomatoes for each sandwich, salting the tomatoes lightly, and add the remaining toast slices.
• 6 carefully slice each sandwich into halves and serve immediately.