Muslim KFC Employee Suspended for Cursing at Customer’s Bacon Request

MMMMMM, BACON

A Perfect Christmas Meal

MMMMMMMMM, BACON

I am not sure how to look at this post

Is it Kosher? What are your thoughts?

Bacon Nativity Scene Looks Delicious!

The Nativity Scene is practically always associated with religion and the story of Jesus, but in this particular remake…it is all about the BACON!
SayUncle says So Awesome
iOwnTheWorld says This One Will Really Piss Them Off.
Jezebel says Definitely not Kosher

Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Carissa's Candied Maple Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Candied Bacon
1 Package Maple Bacon
Brown sugar for sprinkling

Chocolate Chip Cookies
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 cup butter, softened
3/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup brown sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
12 oz Semi-sweet chocolate morsels
Parchment paper

To make the candied bacon:
Preheat the oven to 350 F.  Lay the bacon on a parchment-covered baking sheet, without overlapping. Liberally sprinkle about 2 tsp brown sugar evenly on each strip of bacon.

Bake for 12 minutes, remove from oven, use tongs to flip the bacon and drag it through the syrup that has collected in the baking sheet.
Put the bacon back in the oven for another 12-15 minutes, until fully cooked with a nice dark mahogany coloring.  Use tongs to move the bacon from the sheet and cool on a wire rack. After cooling, chop the bacon up into pieces.

To make the cookies:
Combine flour, baking soda and salt in a small bowl.  Beat butter, brown sugar, white sugar, and vanilla in a large bowl.  Add your eggs, one at a time, beating well to mix. Gradually add the flour mixture. Once fully mixed, stir in morsels and bacon bits.

Spoon the dough (about a tbsp per cookie) onto an ungreased baking sheet and bake at 375 F for 9-11 minutes. After baking, move the cookies to cooling racks, or eat immediately with a tall glass of cold milk.
H/T Pirate's Cove

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Careful with that bacon, Eugene

IT’S not quite the naked chef, but according to a new poll, one in 10 men likes to cook in the nude.

The extraordinary statistic was revealed today in a study of the cooking habits of 3,000 men and women across the country – with 12 per cent of men saying they prefer to do it in the buff, compared to just four per cent of women.

Apparently, the UK Express is why Europe converted to the metric system. The mathematics professors neglected to teach the daily express reporter that one in 10 equals 10% not 12%.

Taste We Can Believe In

I just bought 6 pounds for 

Thanksgiving Holidays, 

MMMMMMMM

Blueberry Waffle Breakfast Sandwich

Breakfast sandwich with two eggs, two sausages, ham, string cheese and bacon between two blueberry waffles glazed with maple syrup.

Fishy Bacon ! ! !

In honor of Fishy Mike's 1 year anniversary, I dedicated a bacon post to him.....

So for year two, I am going to continue with BACON ! ! !

BACON WRAPPED CHICKEN BREAST

4 (around 3 to 4 oz each) boneless chicken breast
8 strips bacon
4 slices provolone cheese, or 1/2 cup shredded
1/4 tsp fresh parsley, finely chopped
1/4 tsp red pepper flakes
salt and pepper

Split the chicken breast horizontally to fillet. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Layer provolone on one side of the breast and fold over the other side to enclose. Wrap each roll with two slices of bacon. Combine red pepper flakes and fresh parsley. Sprinkle on top of chicken. Place in an oven-proof dish and bake uncovered at a 350 F until bacon turns slightly pink, around 10 to 15 minutes. Increase heat to 400 F and continue to bake until bacon crisped and juices run clear when chicken is pierced, around 20-25 minutes. Slice and serve hot.

Bucatini all’Amatriciana
Here’s an approximate cost breakdown of this fabulous 30-minute meal:

$2.00 Bucatini, 1 lb
$5.50 Pancetta, 1/2 lb (this is even less expensive if you substitute regular bacon; only do this if you must)
$1.00 Fresh hot peppers
$3.50 High quality (e.g., San Marzano) canned tomatoes
$1.00 Large red onion
$0.50 Head of garlic (you won’t use the whole thing)
$5.00 Pecorino (you’ll only use a fraction of this, I estimated $0.75 worth)

BACON ! ! ! !

Bacon Moon Pie

If you're thinking this is some highly processed, find-it-at-7-Eleven sort of snack, think again. Bacon Moon Pies ($33/4 pies) are expertly produced savory treats made using high-quality bacon sourced from CA to create a traditional Scottish shortbread with rice flour, bacon fat and bacon cracklin. In between is a marshmallow made from Vermont maple syrup and high-quality bourbon, along with a bacon fat and cracklin caramel, all of which gets encased in 72% dark chocolate. Just try not to eat all four in one sitting, lest you literally begin to embody the phrase "you are what you eat."

Bacon Caramel

Philadelphia Daily News

BACON CARAMEL
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup water
4 to 6 ounces smoky, thick-cut
or slab bacon
2 ounces butter
1/4 cup heavy cream
Dice the bacon into small, uniform pieces and begin to render the fat in a medium-size sauce pan over medium heat. This should take only a few minutes.
The bacon will begin to get crispy. When it appears to have given up most of its fat, remove from the heat and strain the bacon through a fine mesh sieve, reserving the fat and the pieces separately.
Add the water and sugar to the pan, and return to the heat. Use a spoon to scrape up any of the brown deliciousness that may be sticking to the bottom of the pan, and then stop stirring.
At this point, the sugar needs to reach a temperature of 330 degrees. If you have a candy thermometer use it; if not, judge by appearance. The sugar will turn golden and begin to smell slightly nutty as it becomes caramel. This process takes 10 to 15 minutes.
When the caramel has reached this stage, remove from the heat and slowly whisk in the butter, cream and, finally, the remaining bacon fat. Whisk constantly but be careful! The sugar is very hot, and when the butter and cream are added it may bubble up.
Once everything has been incorporated, add the chopped bacon to the caramel and season with salt and pepper if desired. Makes about 2 cups.
The caramel will hold in the refrigerator for up to 3 weeks. It's good on everything - ice cream, cheeses, vinaigrettes, muffins. Just use your imagination.
Source: Chef Jason Cichonski, Lacroix at the Rittenhouse.

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MMMMMMM BACON ! ! ! !

BACON-FILLED WAFFLES with CHILI-SPICED FRIED APPLES

for the waffles:
1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 cup cornstarch
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 1/2 cups buttermilk
1/2 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
12 tablespoons canola oil
2 large eggs separated
2 tablespoons sugar
1/3 cup crumbled cooked bacon
Canola oil spray

for chili-fried apples:
3 1/2 tablespoons bacon drippings or grease
4 crisp tart apples, peeled, cored and cut into thick slices
1/4 cup raw, brown or maple sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon Aleppo pepper flakes
Aleppo pepper flakes and maple syrup for serving/garnish

FOR WAFFLES: Heat your oven to 200 degrees F. and plug in your waffle iron and start it heating.

Whisk the dry ingredients together thoroughly except for the sugar and bacon in a large mixing bowl. Set aside.

Whisk together the milks, vanilla, canola oil and egg yolks in a large measuring cup or batter bowl until well combined.

In another bowl, whisk the egg whites until they form soft peaks. Sprinkle the sugar over them and continue whisking until they form fairly stiff peaks.

Blend together the liquid into the dry ingredients until they are just combined. Do not overmix.

Fold in the egg whites.

Spray your waffle iron well with canola oil spray. Fill the iron with scoops of batter without overfilling the iron. Sprinkle with an even layer of bacon bits. Close waffle iron and cook as directed.

When baked, remove from iron, cut into fourths along guidelines and lay in oven on racks in a single layer to crisp up. (You can also crisp them in the toaster as I directed in the post and then hold them in a single layer in the oven. This works a bit better in my opinion.)

Serve topped with fried apples and a bit of maple syrup.

FOR CHILI-SPICED FRIED APPLES: Heat your bacon drippings or grease over a medium flame in a skillet or frying pan. Add apples in a single layer and cook, stirring, until they soften to where they can be pierced by a fork, but they still are a bit hard in the center and they are golden colored. Sprinkle with sugar, cinnamon and chili flakes, and keep cooking, stirring constantly, until they are fragrant, glazed with a thick syrup and are soft through without being mushy.

Serve spooned over the bacon waffles with a drizzle of maple syrup and if you like another sprinkle of Aleppo pepper flakes.


bacon recipe courtesy of: Tigers & Strawberries, Petitchef.com, March 25, 2009

H/T to Bacon Show

BACON,MMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Good Old Fried Bacon


Fishy Mike reminds us "Don't forget that this Saturday is International Bacon Day"
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Baked

nannystate attacking bacon

“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.” - Thomas Jefferson

If the food police get their way, North Carolinians can kiss their country hams, bacon, and fresh Bright Leaf hot dogs goodbye. These Southern specialties might not disappear altogether, but, if the health agency’s crusade against salt is successful, they never will taste the same again......

In April, the Institute of Medicine advised the FDA to lower the recommended daily intake of sodium for individuals from 2,300 mg to 1,500 mg. It also recommended setting maximum legal limits on salt in all packaged and restaurant foods..........

“FDA might mandate maximum amounts of sodium per serving in food categories — say, bacon — in 2015, then slightly less in 2018, and finally reaching the goal in 2024.”

That would pose problems for bacon producers. “Bacon’s not bacon unless you use salt to cure it,”

Reason's Sullum, author of For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health, also says low-salt mandates intrude on individual rights and personal responsibility. “Even if it were proven that consuming a certain amount of salt was bad for you,” Sullum said, “the government doesn’t have any business telling you what you may eat and what you may not eat.”

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Star Wars Meets Bacon.

The Bacon AT-AT
stands 3 ft tall and is
made with over 40 lbs of bacon.

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I Like Bacon..... But

Is this over the top???

Bacon Bashing Love.

Tim Love went off the deep end ! ! !

Over at the Daily Beast he wrote.....

With its salty-smoky-sweet crispiness, bacon ranks up there with chocolate as a great populist ingredient. A piece of chocolate-covered bacon may, in fact, have been the greatest thing I've ever tasted.Still, as both a fan of all things meat and a restaurateur, I have to speak truth to power: The bacon craze has gone too far.

Bacon Paradise

He says... Bacon, you've always been there for us and will always be there, but it's high time we all stepped beyond the comfort zones of familiar trends and showcase something different.

BACON ! ! !

Mountain Products Smokehouse, a modest, ranchhouse-sized smoker in LaGrangeville, in the Hudson Valley of New York.Had you fried up a few slices with your egg this morning, you might well have been dumbstruck.So this is what bacon could be, it might have dawned - its salt and cure so in sync; its smoke woven into the flavor, not simply into the aroma; the chew thoroughly meaty, with little trace of greasiness."It is," ordained Ezekial Ferguson, "the steak of bacon."And so it seemed.And it was good.

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Another Use For BACON ! ! !

Bacon Caramel Corn

Bacon Maple-Caramel Corn with Pecans

3-4 slices bacon
6-8 cups air popped popcorn (about 1/4 cup kernels)
1 cup packed brown sugar
1/2 cup maple syrup or corn syrup
2-4 Tbsp. butter
1 tsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. baking soda
1/2 cup pecan pieces or halves (optional)

Preheat oven to 250° F. In a medium skillet, cook the bacon until crisp. Transfer to a plate, crumble into chunky pieces and reserve 1-2 tablespoons of the drippings.

Spray a large bowl with non-stick spray and put the popcorn in it, along with the pecans if you’re using them.

Combine the brown sugar, corn syrup, butter and reserved bacon drippings in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Boil without stirring, swirling the pan occasionally, for 4 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla and baking soda. It will foam up at first.

Quickly pour over the popcorn and stir to coat well, adding the reserved bacon. Tongs work really well for this! Spread onto a cookie sheet or roasting pan and bake for 30 minutes, stirring once or twice. Cool.

Makes about 7 cups.

Per cup: 244 calories, 4.4 g total fat (2.4 g saturated fat, 1.4 g monounsaturated fat, 0.3 g polyunsaturated fat), 3.3 g protein, 49 g carbohydrate, 14.7 mg cholesterol, 1 g fiber. 16% calories from fat.

Bacon Of The Month

Bacon Of The Month

Bacon of the Month Club 6 Month Membership

One package of bacon delivered to your door each month for six months for only $190 including shipping & handling.


Please note: Renewal discount does not apply to 6 months membership.

Here's what you get:

- A different artisan bacon delivered to your door each month for 6 months
- Informative notes on all bacon selections
- Discounts on The Grateful Palate bacon products and bacons
- Bacon of the Month Club Membership Card
- The bacon strip - our members only monthly bacon comic strip
- The Bacon of the Month Club Pig Ballpoint Pen
- A little Rubber Toy Pig
- One free Bacon Tee Shirt
- A recipe each month using the bacon selected
- Discounts on suggested wines and products in recipes
- And a pig nose!

Bacon of the Month welcome kits can be shipped UPS overnight and UPS 2-day with an additional charge.

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