BLT Salad

BLT Salad

Hellman’s Mayo

Chopped tomato 

Iceberg lettuce 

Crisp bacon

Bacon grease

Croutons 

Start with some mayo in the bottom of a salad bowl. Put about the amount you would put if you were going to dress your salad after putting it all together. Chop up as many tomatoes as you like. Keep all those juices to add to the bowl.  If you want to pour on a little of the warm bacon grease, do it now. Don’t use too much.

I like iceberg lettuce for this, it’s nice and crunchy.  Add it, and crumbled or diced bacon at this point.

Bacon is usually already pretty salty. However, I once read that one thing people often don’t do, is season their salads with salt and pepper. And how much is the small amount and make a huge difference.  I did add freshly ground black pepper as well as just a small amount of smoked sea salt that I happen to have on hand.

This is where I just tossed it altogether and ate it for dinner last night. However if you happen to have some bread with which to make croutons, my friend Liz fried hers in the bacon grease, and said it added a really great boost of flavor.

This isn’t much of a recipe. More of a guideline really.