Not a BLT

Summer Saturdays mean early morning visit to the farmer’s market. Usually our eyes are bigger than our table and I have to work hard to cook up all the interesting vegetables we buy. Since Carter is away Russ and I are happy to eat grazing meals.
I made a Spanish style Gazpacho adding some farmers market tomatillos today. That was a good healthy start on a dinner, but certainly was not enough to complete it. We had bought some pork side meat, which is kind of like thick bacon that has not been smoked. I cooked it in the oven and it felt like a decadent item to act as our main course.  
Russ had his weekly polenta bread from Loaf, the best downtown bakery so it seemed like BLT’s might be in our future. It was a good plan since I had bought so many vine ripped tomatoes.
After enjoying the soup I could not bring myself to eat the bread in a BLT so I decided to make BLT lettuce wraps with a little avocado for a treat. I washed the market lettuce and lay out three leaves, a half a slice of tomato went on top. Since I was skipping the bread I allowed myself a little touch of mayo on top of the tomato. Then added the bacon and avocado. Salt and lots of pepper completed my wraps. Looked like a good alternative to a regular BLT.
It was not. Yes all individual ingredients were good and together they were fine, but they definitely missed the bread. There is something about the way the juice from the tomato soaks into the bread and the crunch of the crispy bacon yields to the bread.
Don’t get me wrong. I normally would be happy to eat these items as a salad, but even a BLT salad is not a BLT sandwich. Even the addition of avocado did not make up for the loss of bread. Somethings are actually perfect in there simplicity and a BLT sandwich is one of those things.
I am going to have to work hard not eat something naughty due to my dissatisfaction with my dinner. I would have been better off just to eat the bread.