GLUTEN-FREE BACON, LETTUCE, AVOCADO & TOMATO WRAP AKA ‘THE BLAT’

Even though it’s been continuous rain with brief moments of sunshine, our summer temperatures have still been quite hot – mid to upper 80s with humidity above 60 percent. And that means it feels more like 100 degrees . . . and while it’s great for my garden, this kind of weather isn’t great for my hair – frizz and curl is the name of the game these days.

The Professor and I spent the July 4th weekend with our Three Many Cooks friends and had a wonderful time of just ‘being’ – no activities were planned except relax, fall-head-over-heels-in-love with baby Dash, enjoy good food, laugh and connect; it was such a great weekend.

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We spent an evening with our niece in Philadelphia on the way, two nights with the Anderson/Keet clan and a day in Mystic, Connecticut with our friends at Jovial before heading home; on our way out of Connecticut, we stopped at Cafe SoL in Niantic and grabbed an iced coffee as well as a wrap – a B.L.A.T. to be exact: Bacon, lettuce, avocado and tomato all snuggled into a wrap that really hit the spot on a steamy, hot summer day.

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I asked The Professor if a BLT was the quintessential summer meal and for him . . . it is; I wasn’t a fan as a child but I have to admit that I’m rather taken with them as a bona fide grown up. Salty, thick-cut bacon, warm-from-the-sun garden tomatoes and soft butter lettuce – creamy avocado was a lovely addition.

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We are brand ambassadors for the folks at Toufayan Bakeries and happily promote their gluten-free products here on Smith Bites; in my humble opinion, they’re the best gluten-free wraps on the market – and I’d be saying that whether we were brand ambassadors or not. Soft, tender, bendable, these wraps perform like their gluten counterpart – meaning they actually ‘wrap’ without splitting apart; and they taste great too.

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We used the spinach wrap to make our version of the B.L.A.T. and just like that, we were sitting in a corner booth at Cafe SoL on a hot, summer day – that’s what food is about: memories, traditions, stories and gatherings – it’s the food that connects us all.

Disclosure: I am being compensated for sharing Toufayan products with our readers; however, everything I write here are my own words, my own opinion, and my own experiences.

 

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