By Gretchen McKay
From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
When it comes to favorite sandwiches, one meat-and-veggie combination stands head and shoulders above the rest: bacon, lettuce and tomato.
A BLT is easy to prepare, uses humble ingredients and each bite provides an intoxicating mix of salty, crunchy, cool and tangy-sweet.
But what if you don’t eat meat?
I discovered a pretty tasty substitute for bacon while strolling through my Instagram feed: rice paper.
Made from a mixture of white rice and tapioca flours, salt, and water, rice paper is the paper-thin building block for spring rolls. It’s sold dried in thin, crisp, round sheet form, and has to be rehydrated briefly in water before it can be molded into shape and wrapped around ingredients….