oy.

That's waht you get for saying it, Capt!

I just thought... Bacon may be meat candy, but the Honey Glazed Walnut Shrimp at Fortune Cookies is seafood candy! :D

Get yur own damned thread mister! This here thread is about BACON, not some whimpy ocean gnat.

Who died and made you the Pope of bacon?

Bacon of the Month Club

It is a little spendy for me though.

Take your not-bacon to a different thread! This is The Bacon Thread! :mad: How dare you sully this one! ! !

bacon.

:p :D

Yyyeah, $30 a month for a lbs of bacon and a bunch of crap I don't need? No thanks.

Yes, but does it include Baconaise?

We should see if bacon is mentioned on the "Stuff White People Like" blog....

How about if we wrap each shrimp with bacon?





Oooooooo....... Bacon wraped honey glazed walnut shrimp........... (I could die!)

that would sadly and inappropriately be 'no'

(I was just there. :D )

Ok, now we'll forgive you.

And, that sounds heavenly!

But you get a membership card!

That's okay, JWBear. I too have tasted the wonder that is honey walnut shrimp, and understand why you might equate it with bacon.

But serving it WITH bacon.... now that has some serious potential! Meat candy + Sea candy = I don't know what it equals, but it'd be awesome.

Meat candy + Sea candy = Surf-N-Turf-Candy

Hehehe - Kittens Of The Farm + Kittens Of The Sea = Kitten Candy

Eat enough of them and you probably will.

But oh what a way to go!

Heaven on earth.....OK, maybe just a trip to heaven!

I am in food heaven, and think I have found my new favorite food -

Grilled bacon-wrapped jalapenos.

Just washed the whole fresh jalapenos (didn't remove the seeds or anything), and then wrapped them up in a strip of bacon (spiraled around to cover the whole pepper), put them on the George Foreman grill..... and a few minutes later, I had a religious experience. It's a brilliant concoction of flavor and heat.... just perfect.

I want more. I could seriously eat these things constantly.

And, sadly, I only made two of 'em, and the rest of the bacon was already cooked. :(

But, OMG.... for those of you who love bacon and spicy.... ya gotta try this!

Sounds like something that the Woflpack would love!

I bought my first package of turkey bacon. I am going to give it a try.

I find that regular bacon from the grocery store sucks, and I can't always make it to the local butcher... so I'm rebelling.

I'm hoping it doesn't suck.

I would remove the seeds and stuff with Yellow american cheddar before wrapping, but ya, let's give this a go at Yosemite as a lunchbox picnic treat !!

Oooh, or Monterey Jack! Cheddar's yummy too. I thought it sounded good before, now it sounds like I want some right now. I have bacon and cheese, but no jalapenos. Hmph.

Dear BlueErica,

I have tried both Turkcon (tm) and Backey (tm), and in both cases I gobbled them down and made a pig of myself. :D

Love and hugs,

The Stoat XXX.

I want a Deep-Fried Turkcon now!!!

.

We had bacon for breakfast and tomorrow I'm making beef burgandy which also has bacon. It makes for a good bacony weekend!

To see what turkey-bacon looks like before slicing, click here.

Some turkey bacon sucks some is delish. It's better if it's a bit fatty so it crisps up nicely. (I use Applegate (or is it Applewood?) Farms)

Now I want a turkey BLT!

I'm surprised no one has posted this here yet!

Heh, copycats! A film board is cruise on recently made an important announcement
They're just bacon weenies

Psh... wannabees.

You should post that a good resource for all things bacon can be found here.

I wonder...erica, when you first posted this, did you think you'd be planting the seed for so much swankified artery clogging goodness?

Now you can browse LOT with bacon.

Hehe, that's at least the third time that's been posted. Funny every time :)

D'oh! I guess that's what happens when you're MIA for a while. ;)

Its not the MIAosity, it is you not reading every single new post that was made in your absence.

Don't let it happen again!

uh... remember, you also have two versions of the Sooo thread to catch up on.

:evil:

:eek: Ok. Everyone needs to stop posting so I can catch up!

I have never had bacon go moldy in the fridge before. This morning, moldy bacon!

Moldy Bacon = great band name

Over the Holidays I did my thing at a house party open house in Laguna Beach and they had some really good tasting bacon.
The cater had glassed the bacon with honey and baked it in an oven

Goes nicely with spotted dick.

Uh, what Greg said, not Santa.

Isn't spotted dick what the kids were sliding down?

Our bacon never goes mouldy because it's never in the fridge long enough. Come to think of it, it's never in the fridge long enough to even get cool.

Mmmm Honey-Glazed Bacon sounds very naughty... Dare I try it over easter ??

Oh, and Stoat: Thanks for reminding me. I'll pick up some more bacon tomorrow. I guess this means the Cheeri-O's with Bacon is off the menu for breakfast (for the time being, that is)

I had bacon pancakes this morning.

That sounds really good right now, with lots of real maple syrup!

No syrup. I hate syrup.

Kitty Bacon
 

Awww... So cute!

Are you sure? Maybe you should try it again and check cause real maple syrup is too good for anyone to hate.

maybe it needs to be heated. warm maple surple, banana nut pancakes, couple strips of thick sliced bacon done up crisp....

mmmm.......

No thanks.... (Yuck!)

I'm with JW -syrup in any form is disgusting.

What is WRONG with you people? Are you communists or something?

It makes a mess and it makes your food all mushy. Gross.

technique, darling, technique ;)

Ok, how about some nice melty butter?!

Of course!

It's true. I prefer to dip mine instead of letting it soak in it. Dang - now I want pancakes and bacon.

And it has to be real butter no artificial crap.

I'm making Fettucini Carbonara for dinner tonight. :D

How'd it turn out? Mine tends to end up a bit clumpy... I need a better recipe or technique.

And I have a problem with tossing the pasta with a raw egg. Is that totally necessary?

Oh and do you use smoked bacon or pancetta?

The carbonara recipe in the Better Homes & Gardens cookbook is pretty decent. They have you add the egg up front, which isn't technically proper, but works well enough. The trick is to keep the heat down so you don't "break" the egg.

Iffen you don't break the egg, how do you get it out of the shell? :p

The idea is you need the pasta hot enough to cook the egg when tossing. If you prefer, blend the egg with the cream, add it to the pasta and toss over a low heat for a minute or two until cooked. Not quite the same, but yummy nevertheless.

Just regular Canadian Aussie Bacon.

A little sticky, but that's from extra parmigiano reggiano. :evil:

So, we stopped by Wendy's for dinner and witnessed a concoction of bizarre-ness. The capper was this: some guy ordered the Baconator... but he requested that there be no burger and no bacon.

W
T
F
?

That'd be just an Ator.

I know!

BTW: We had Pancakes with Whipped Butter and Maple syrup, Eggs & Bacon for lunch at the team farewell today. :D

Oh dear, was it your last day today?

Hmmm, should this go on the Bacon thread or the Cute Animals thread? Sadly, bacon wins.

No, one of my colleagues. Looks like we get three send-offs in total ! :D


short answer: Bacon. :evil:

Must not show to Olivia. We wants a piggeh very badly (even before this video of cuteness).

It's a little undercooked.

Kitteh no liek that bacon!

Responding to the quote in Lashies post aboveSeveral breeds of dog grow to those weights and more.

Anyone post this yet?
browse with Bacon

Three or four times.

Mike Nelson, of MST3K, goes on an all bacon diet. Seriously.

that might at some point put even me off bacon forever. I think he's been listening to Crowwwwww too much.

Bacon is Like A Little Hug from God




Buy here.

Oh great. You get me all excited only for me to discover this heart breaking fact:

It says 15 in stock.

From our Chef du Cuisine in Texas, Chicken Fried Bacon Actual Bacon demonstration starts at about 1:40, much disgusting carnivorous consumption in the first 1:40, be warned!

I think this shirt would be great for this thread.

Great site. Love this one:



:D

Somewhere back in this thread, we discussed how LoT was mentioned on a board devoted to bacon. Both BlueErica and I received this email on Friday:

The coffee brown sugar bacon sounds awesome.

Fab quote from the article you linked: Next: eating bacon responsibly: Can it be done?

Squeeze bacon

hoping its actually an april fools thing....
in any case, finally a bacon themed item that I truly have no desire to try

ew

Alas, it is just an April Fools Day item.

Glad to hear it because it looks more like a squeeze turd than squeeze bacon

oh thank god. made me want to hurl

Have we seen this?
 

Camp Swank, Camp Bacon

hope they brought plenty of this



:evil:

[cross posting in Corn Dogs thread]

I just tried to eat my monitor....

Corn Dog Casserole. With bacon.

A treat like that needs to not be missed: cross posting warranted!

Bacon Fried Rice - I'm game for this, minus the mushrooms

One more before I crawl off to find some bacon for dinner...

Deep Fried Bacon Cheese and Beer Dog

Give 'em to Susan - she loves them!

"First take the center out of the hot dog with an apple corer" Say WHAT? How the hell are you supposed to hollow out a hot dog with an apple corer? I could maybe see coring a thick sausage, but a decidedly non-girthy hot dog? I don't think so...

Me too! Mushrooms are nummy.

Bacon Cheddar Waffles - I've GOT to try this recipe.

It's the week of the all you can eat bacon buffet breakfast for us! The boy gets so spoiled having all the yummy breakfast food at his fingertips at Embassy Suites and then gets home and wants me to make it every morning. I don't think so kid, enjoy it while you're there.

Bacon Gumballs

Bacon - it'll cure what ails ya.

LOL: that is the second post in a row of yours that I read that has a link to DIGG.com. I wonder what you were doing from 3:00 - 3:15 today?


(Sorry for using LOL)

Most of my links always come from Digg. They've just changed their software so the link takes you to a digg-url with a tool bar and the target page shown underneath. It's just easier to copy the digg link than to click through to the url. And considering how much I use Digg, I'm happy to oblige their efforts to drive more traffic.

A non-LoTer known to many LoTers shared this insightful thought today:I agree.

Are we sure that's not an April Fools joke?

Bacon Life - now that's the way to live!

I have been buying the bacon ends and pieces at FoodMax. 3 pounds for $5.

It isn't perfect strips, but that makes it easier to cook.

Are you a bacon addict?


I think its just going to be variations on the "YES" factor for us LoT'rs, eh?

I love bacon more than you! :p

83%

I am not worthy.

I lied just to be the first person to post this:



But I only had to lie a little

(Bill won't post his, but it was only 23%. But I still love him anyway.)

ditto...but I had to lie ...well, pretty much completely

A paltry 61%... but I screwed up on the dessert question because I forgot that I've had bacon s'mores.

44% here - but when it asked about bacon being listed on a menu being a deciding factor, I said yes, but when I do that, I'm generally moving AWAY from the bacon, so I think my real score is a little lower.

(Please don't kick me out!)

71% for me. Have to make Wolfette take this quiz....she'd eat bacon for every meal if I'd let her.

Bacon on Broadway
 

This video parody of "New York New York (A Helluva Town)" was inspired by David Cromer's new Broadway production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town". I haven't seen the show, but I am told in this production they actually cook bacon on stage.

I think it was the part about drinking the bacon grease that probably made most of us unworthy......????

88% addicted.

Sounds about mmm.... bacon.

Sixty-nine, dude!

Would love to: your place or mine?

I think you meant BA-K-47

88% addicted. I really do love bacon!

Burning Man - Meet Bacon Man (Link contains NSFW language)

Report back when you hit 88.5%

I'll let you know if I make it, maybe if I have bacon today it will put me over!

Yes - thank you. :)

Attachment 1076

heh, I thought I'd rate higher.

I decided to throw bacon into my design for this week's shirt.woot design derby, heheh.

Meat Madness Final: Steak vs. Bacon

I prefer bacon with my steak, really...

visible makin bacon mojo

:snap: :snap:

Bacon Blow Torch

(as also seen on Bacon Today)

(Thanks to J for the heads up on this one!)

This was posted 4 posts ago.

Aw crap, it would help if I read before I post, wouldn't it?

I bet Alphabassettgrrl is going to say that "reading before posting" is against the LoT rules.



....and the BLT drinks tonight at the Cocktail Party were beyond Awesome. They were fantastic. The mix of regular and low sodium worked (after a little tweaking with tabasco & Lea & Perrins.)

Dude... seriously, dude...


I think I want.

I want a dude too Goonie.

And that Bacone looks tasty!

I think I just got heartburn in my eyes.

Hmmm... must work on how to make the bacone at home.

LOL... Woot is selling bacon salt!

But dang....$5.00 shipping?!

Yeah, I can't see myself ordering enough of them to make the $5 shipping break down into something that makes sense

What does bacon lube taste like?

You know you wanna know. :p

No, I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really don't

While it pains me to say this, I'm with Kevy on this one.

Before or After it's used? :evil:

EW! (ew ew ew!)

Funny though - they don't seem to think it's all THAT bad... until the guy at the end anyway.

Hot intern...

Uh, if it doesn't taste like bacon, then what's the point?

I would be willing to try it.

Should we just call you Mikey?

I would prefer to be legally recognized as Mr. Szczerbiak.

How does Wally feel about that?

Wally feels gooooood! :evil:
Yes, I have felt Him. Twice. It was AWESOME!

Back off the pork and let's talk bacon.

Now, we all know the bacon watch, a.k.a. "Time for Bacon". A very affordable novelty item that. But, I swear that woman who writes the "On and Off the Avenue" shopping column for The New Yorker mentioned a very upscale Swiss version. It's not on the market yet (or ever?) but would be thousands of dollars, if not tens of thousands. Like Time for Bacon, the hands are bacon strips - jeweled or gold, in this case.

The article is in this week's issue. I'm looking at the article right now and I can't find the bacon watch part. It's driving me crazy, damn it.

I thought of you all when I was at my favorite local meat market/family run little grocery store, mostly because they carry these things:

Bacon bandaids

Bacon mints

Bacon gumballs

Bacon gummy candy (which Olivia and I agreed looked totally disgusting)

Bacon Flavored Toothpicks

plus lots of other meat related products.

Yep. They like bacon at this place...maybe even more than bacon loving LoTers do. :D

Not Bacon

That is DEFINITELY sausage.

That Guy! I thought you were bacon!

I implore thee, fellow LoT Citizens, keep your non-bacon filth out of this beauteous thread!

Hehe...

Okay, but I am seriously hoping for some bacon this morning. NOM.

It's for a charm bracelet. I found it googling "bacon jewelry".

The day I wear a pig charm is the day I start sporting a hippo print Vera Bradley backpack purse.

200% What?

Less bun?

it says 200% tasty! in Katakana - The Japanese have a knack for hyperbole it seems !!

in germany they also have large sausages .

:evil: I'd give it try.....

Funny, kinda looked like a Puka Dog

Are they related to anyone here... ?

lovin the suits. I could totally wear that

Bacon Makes Everything Better - T-shirt for Men

Bacon Makes Everything Better - T-shirt for Women

And I think some people at LoT would make better (or more believable) models than the people pictured in the above links.

I'm SOOOO ordering that when I get home!

(And the model for the men's version is adorably cute!)

The Orange County Fair is using Chocolate Covered Bacon as a reason to go to.

I don't know why you all can't stand Bacon Salt, but I love the stuff! We only have two jars of the original, and I put it on everything. It's especially good mixed with salsa or sour cream for dipping veggies. :)

I'm currently having an avocado egg salad bacon wrap :) nummy.

I had a turkey club melt... with bacon. Mmmm. I ate a salad instead of fries to counter the ooey-gooey goodness.

Someone just microwaved bacon in the kitchenette across from my office. The smell is driving me crazy. I hate them... :mad:

That's OK. The Krispy Kreme Chicken Sandwich is NOT !

I'm LOVIN the bacon salt I was given ! I'm rationing it out very carefully.

No need to ration, just buy it at baconsalt.com

I just checked, they ship internationally.
http://store.baconsalt.com/
"...please allow up to 2-3 weeks for international orders (we ship anywhere in the world)."

I saw these and thought of you guys....

http://charlesandmarie.com/blog/epic...l-lolliphiles/

So I was just using BING to find the Lounge of Tomorrow and it did not come up. So I decided to use another word to help narrow down the results. I find it funny that I used bacon, before words like swank or Disney.

In case you were wondering, I ended up using google to find it. lol

in retrospect, I should have just typed LoungeofTomorrow.com. Oh well.

New restaurant in NYC, Permanent Brunch, has artisanal bacon bar.

Dammit, as if I needed ANOTHER reason to get my butt to NYC again.

Perhaps a local (to you CA people) swanking is in order:

The 50/50 Burger: Half Beef, Half Bacon

Oh HELL yes a swanking is in order! I'm literally salivating at the thought.

Hmmm. Sounds like a good lunch date this weekend! :D

Or for a DIY, go here. I vouch for their greasy goodness.

I'm not going to bother looking through this entire thread so if this has been posted please don't hate me! I saw it and thought of my fellow LoTers :)

Now, I want bacon.

Keith: Cp beat ya to it, but I'm happy seeing it again !!! :D

I just found that the Nickle Diner has bacon donuts.

I bought another kilo (2.2 lb) of bacon for $5 from our local butcher !!!

I think the proper wording for that sentence is "I scored another kilo of bacon from my meat dealer".

Hehehehehe... that's what it felt like.

Ladies and gentlemen (and I guess you LoT too...) please hang on to your hats. I give you: BACONHENGE

Um... Stonehenge, The most famous neolithic monument in the world.

Pagan Bacon Rituals!

I rather like the Bacon Man

:D

I think bacon cupcakes could be good.

Just sayin'...

I think this was the funniest, but this was the coolest.

How did this get missed?

Nice!

So meaty! :D

Yesterday, it was time to pick the team name for the kids' soccer team I coach. One of the boys suggested "bacon."

We will be the Firesharks, but it was funny.

OMG, that's coming up! Who will comprise our emissary team to this important event??

Hmmmm

I think someone needs to go with Chris on a Bacon Boondoggle (I will be at the store all day).

That's right! When is it opening?

The Long Beach store won't be open until October, but I have officially stopped the majority of my pet sitting and am training part time in the Downtown LA store for 2 weeks. THEN, it looks like I will be working full time there while hiring 2 assistant managers, training them, training myself, getting product ordered, received and stocked and generally blowing all of the circuits in my brain.

Bacon Wrapped Grilled Corn on the Cob

Sounds like a little piece of heaven....never thought of wrapping up bacon and corn on the cob, two of my favorites on the grill, will have to try this one!

I'll have to try that when we bbq again. Especially since corn is fresh and cheap right now.


Gary was sweet and brought me home a Voodoo maple bar with bacon, it was delish!

This looks truly foul, however I do appreciate the term "bacon dreamcatcher".

Not enough bacon

What happened to step 1?

I'm going to guess that the bacon wouldn't be done enough for me. I don't really like floppy bacon...

We used to put bacon wrapped tomatoes on skewers with meat and other stuff and I don't much care for tomatoes or the not crispy bacon but they were still pretty good.

I wonder if blanching the bacon or cooking it a little first in a pan would make any difference.

I also want to make waffles with crumbled bacon in them.

Betty, you probably could do that. I find bacon in the oven cooks up in about 10 minutes to crispier than I like (but I like mine soft) so perhaps 5-6 minutes of pre-bake followed by wrapping on the corn, if it's not too hot to touch. However you may lose a lot of good bacony juices that way which would otherwise bacon up the corn.

"bacon up the corn" sound dirty. "Hey, Baby, how'd you like to come back to my place and bacon up the corn?"

Oh God! I'm making these first chance I get!

Report from Newnes:

Bacon consumed, however emergency Canned Bacon stash remains intact for another trip. Turns out 2.2 pounds of bacon was enough for a Bear & Stoat (we're trying to cut back)

I assume you mean per day?

JW Bear: OMG, me too!

They look scrumdiddilyumptious, but two hours to bake?!? :eek:

That does seem like a long baking time but at such a low temp I can see it taking that long. It does look good though.

Good - one of the commentators said they used saltines to do theirs. We DO have those here.

...now to try and find streaky american bacon... :rolleyes:

I wish I could go to the Sept 5th event... I will be in Florida, sweating it out on opening game for the Gators.

I should eat bacon-wrapped gator tail in honor of the occasion. I bet it would be good.

Remind me to make these when you come back (soon, I hope) because Club Crackers are way better than Saltines!

A Club cracker is so much better. I love their buttery goodness.

Club crackers are somewhere between a saltine and a Ritz cracker... more in the direction of the Ritz cracker in terms of buttery goodness.

I always thought Club crackers were more buttery than Ritz.

I concur. Butter scale is Saltine < Ritz < Club

Sigh, I'm putting this in spoiler tags because it's somewhat contrary to the spirit of this thread, but it's an important note about bacon.

The intro to this very fine but disturbing article on the health crisis in America:

Cool... now I'm hungry. It's good to be at the top of the food chain

I'm starting to think this meme might have jumped the shark.

The Bacon Bra.

On the morning commute today as I walked past Whole Foods, the glorious scent of bacon was wafting in the air. Then, the Cable Car ride up to Hyde Street, a glorious cloud of bacon was in the air, what a great way to start the morning........

Going to have to make my own cloud here this morning now!

Is this thread suddenly about bacon farts?

What is it about being named Bacon and empiricism?

do you have any empirical data on that? :D


Oh, and dinner tonight is going to be Caesar Salad using some of the last Yoders Canned Bacon. We've done well to make it last so long, I think.

Tonight, I had a deep fried bacon cheeseburger for dinner. It was blissful.

My arteries just hardened a little bit simply reading this.

CM, did you make this or is their some burger emporium where you can actually buy it?

To which cardiac ward would you like us to send the cards and flowers?

Did it look like this?:

Not bacon, but steak deserves nearly as much attention as bacon anyway so I'm posting it here.

United Steaks of America

To accompany your bacon,
 

IHOP NFL/AFL French toast to set your back field in motion

We got some pepper bacon from the meat counter at the grocery store and OMG - YUUUUUUUM! I hightly recommend it - and buy twice as much as you think you need because it was that good. (stater bros).

Yup, that pepper bacon is great stuff, isn't it? But have you tried the applewood smoked?

That's exactly what I envisioned when seeing the commercial: frequent trips to the bathroom.

So, I finally did remember that the turkey bacon has been sitting in the freezer since I purchased it... I dunno... months ago. Defrosted, and put on the stove. YUCKO. WTF is this sh*t? It doesn't taste like turkey and it DOESN'T taste like bacon!!! It tastes like gross. Like Gross. Whatever Gross is, that's what it tasted like. Well, it didn't taste like gross, but it tasted like salt.

Ugh.

Never. Forget.

I could have told you that, thought every bacon fan knew!

There is no substitute for the real thing.

I've had excellent turkey bacon.

My reaction to the turkey bacon has probably more to do with the fact that I thought I had real bacon in the freezer, but settled for turkey.

Bacon also makes a great "tramp stamp"! :eek:

as one of the comments said

its sacre-licious!

That's definitely one to file under "really gonna regret that in a few years"

Gives a whole new meaning to 'porking' someone...

She's a pig

Oh good grief, the Bacon Farts iPhone app. :rolleyes:

I went to a baby shower this weekend and someone brought banana bacon cupcakes.

Last night for dinner BJ made mac n cheese with bacon. Mmmmmm cloggy arteries!

How where they?

They were actually very good.

It was kind of funny because she doesn't really bake but when she found out her son prefered store bought cupcakes she started experimenting. She put dried banana chips in a yellow cake and topped them with a banana chip. The bacon were a white cake with bacon pieces baked in and topped with a piece of bacon. I guess there were some that had both bacon and banana but I don't eat bananas.

The Apocalypse Is Near
 

And we can all die happy! Behold the 1,500-calorie bacon burger in a Krispy Kreme. SFW

I wonder if they server it with a side of fried butter.

The annual Los Angeles County Fair, which ended last weekend, included pig races throughout the day. The cute pig races were sponsored by Ralphs Supermarkets, which had banners posted around the area saying: "Bring Home The Bacon!" After each race, which also included duck races, too, spectators were given coupons for free packages of bacon at Ralphs. Who doesn't love free bacon?! :D

Cute pigs.

My local Taco Bell now offers bacon. Half a buck will get you bacon on a little cup, suitable for sprinkling on pretty many anything.

I was recently involved in a game of Taboo where in being prompted to say the B word, the clue given was "it's meat candy".

I love the LoT.

That's a creative way to get someone to say "blowjob"

It's racist and you can get soup there.

Sort of racist.

Wait... what???

What's racist? And how does soup play into this? How/when did we get here? I'm very confused.

It's the LoT.....are you really surprised?

What is..... The White Spot?

Or did you mean actually racist like Denny's and Cracker Barrel?

Guess again.

It's sort of racist. And you can get soup there.

Souplantation?

Sambos?

What I'm not understanding is NA's seemingly non sequitur comment up at #1808. Why did she say that then? Looking at the comments above it, it doesn't make sense to me. (perhaps that's intentional)

I'm not upset, just confuzed.

I think you have to expect this sort of confusion thing for a week or two following the annual (or is it up to semi-annual now?) Palm Springs retreat(s). :rolleyes:

Ding!

I'm supposed to make sense?

Only on Thursdays and every fourth Friday.

That actually sounds good, but quite pricey to order and have it mailed!

CBS interactive held a bacon bakesale

That actually sounds good :blush:

It's the work of Satan.

Shaky Bacon Plushie

kinda lame, but hey, it's bacon

Several of us own Shaky Bacon plushies.

And art work featuring Shaky, Mr. Toast, and all their breakfast friends

Shaky watched over us as we slept in LB.

Ah, sweet procrastination ...
 

Aha! I sorta thought there might be more bacon action at the site you linked, SzczerbiakManiac! Behold the power of cheese:

Breakfast necklace, featuring our favorite pork product. Don't forget the matching bracelet. The copy says Whatever "kawaii" means.

Not bacon but bacon-friendly are these toast w/ butter earrings. Do you suppose those are totally kawaii, too?

Kawaii=Japanese for cute and is often used to refer to the obsession many Japanese have with cartoonish cuteness. Think of the exaggerated, big-eyed cuteness of Hello Kitty.

And yes, the earrings would definitely qualify.

And Kawaii has to be said in the highest voice possible with the double "ii" sound held a few seconds longer than normal for maximum impact.

OF course, you have to watch out - kAwaii means cute, but kOwaii means scary !!

I told a lady at Tokyo Disneyland I thought her kid was scary. Really. :blush:

From my friend Carl in Japan

How to Make Japanese Bacon

wow, I could totally do that

Love the jewelry...

I have crumbled bacon in my fridge and I'm not afraid to use it!

In fact, I'd better use it soon, I made it on Saturday. Today is shaping up to be a "baked potato" kind of day.

Right now on Amazon you can get 30% off your bacon needs http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.htm...cId=1000438931

I can't be tempted... I don't have a job :(

Boo Hoo.

Did you see the bacon flavored envelopes they've come out with? (too lazy to find and link I guess)

you mean, when you lick them, it tastes like bacon? OMG - too perfect !

Sure better than licking a piece of bacon and having it taste like envelope glue.

Just now I was trying to make bacon wrapped asparagus for M & G.

But they like the asparagus a 'lil bit squishier than it gets when it is broiled, so I had to make the asparagus separately. And they kept stealing the bacon before I could wrap the asparagus. So they had bacon. :D

Squishy asparagus, ewww. It becomes too hard to bite off then.

I like my asparagus like I like my men: Tender but firm, and wrapped in bacon.

OT: Deebs, try canned asparagus, it's squishy. :D

We went out to breakfast this morning at our favorite breakfast place (Eggs Etc). When the party at the next table got up and left, they left a whole plate of uneaten bacon!!! What kind of monsters would do that?! The horror!

I hope you grabbed it !!

No. It was someone else's table. Ew.

But it was BACON!

I had my own side of bacon. Goddess knows what they may have done to theirs. You never know with people like that!

Call yourself a bacon fan? Bah.

...I would have dusted it off and eaten it. :p

My parents were in town for the weekend, and last night we had dinner with my cousin's family (she lives in WeHo) at A.O.C.

The most delicious thing on the menu?

BACON-WRAPPED DATES!

Holy cow. I need to make these at home. So so yummy.

Were the bacon wrapped dates stuffed with anything?

A teensy bit of parmesan, I believe.

My sister made bacon-wrapped dates for a party a few weeks ago. Some unstuffed, some stuffed with parmesean. Deeeeeeelicious (the stuffed ones were definitely the winners).

I had bacon wrapped dates a few months ago, where the dates were stuffed with nuts. I can't remember for sure which nut, but probably a pecan or almond

Didn't you serve that at the LashMeat last year? Is that called rumaki <sp?>?

That's just WROOOONG!

Rumaki is bacon wrapped liver (or water chestnuts).

It was only this year !! (unless you mean the LashMeat from 2007?)
MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. LOVE the sound of this, but Stoat would never go for it, worse luck.

The W Lakeshore in Chicago used to serve chorizo stuffed, bacon wrapped dates - best appetizer ever.

The W Lakeshore is simply awesome.

Tomorrow I'm making bacon wrapped dates stuffed with blue cheese.

(Hey - if this thread and the LA Times are going the same direction, who am I to disagree?)

Archie McPhee has some new bacon items for the silly people (like me)

Archie's bacon goodness

Also, for the holiday inclined, I see an inflatable fruitcake, no bacon on that, however.

This weekend I made bacon wrapped hot dogs per Gary's request. He saw some show on Food Network on Thanksgiving weekend and decided I should do that. It was just ok for me but the boys loved it!

That was funny and it was cool to see the bacon bra in action! I remember seeing a bacon bra on here before.

I made cheese balls last night. It just seemed to be lacking something, so I added bacon!

Mmmm, bacony cheese! :snap:

Doing Green Bean Casserole for Christmas dinner....I think I'll throw in some bacon, might be just the thing. Thanks for the idea!

Another good tip is to add bacon to your bacon - a wonderful taste treat!

Cross Post from Susan's Tweet earlier in the day:

Squeez Bacon®

Ok, now who's going to try it?!

Tomorrow is International Bacon Cooking Day in Long Beach.

I'm sure it's OK if we celebrate here in Garden Grove!

Bringing three pounds of maple bacon.

Plus I am trying the chili with bacon in it (real bacon: not Squeez Bacon)

We're bringing our very special bacon treat tonight. Some got a preview a few weeks ago.

Susan is cooking up four pounds of bacon treats. I cooked a pound of bacon into the chili. And we have three pounds for the bacon orgy tomorrow morning.

That's eight pounds of bacon from our household.

For the next party!

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bacon cups!

I thought he was saying "Be A C*** " :eek:

Snowflake: that is awesome!

Five Reasons Pigs Are More Awesome Than You :D (probably NSFW - but damnit, the Oatmeal is HILARIOUS)

Now this really is meat candy!

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I give you the bacon slab cake, edible down to the cutting board.

Chef John prepares Bacon Meat Candy

He's my favourite chef !!! I want this so baaaaaad.

Oh, here's the ingredient list:
1 pound thick center-cut bacon
1/4 cup packed brown sugar
2 tbsp maple syrup
2 tbsp rice vinegar
black pepper to taste

For added fat & calories:

Sweet Bacon Dogs

I fixed the link

Thanks....didn't test it first. Next time I will try to remember.

Bacon jam!

I don't eat pork and this looks yummy. Hmm, I wonder if it would work with turkey bacon...

I have to confess I made something like this for the Superbowl, except with little smokies. To add to the confession I took the leftover bacon and made something like Lash's recipe but with only brown sugar. That was the most delicious bacon ever, thankfully there wasn't many pieces left from the smokies because I would have eaten a pan of brown sugar bacon :eek:

People Bacon - Neurotically Yours (NSFW - language)

Dinner last night was a pot roast that involved a healthy amount of bacon. I started cooking it at noon. Low and slow ftw!

Yumm, pot roast with bacon sounds delish! So how did you cook it, crockpot or oven?

Just a pot on the stove.

Full recipe.

4 lbs chuck roast
1 small onion, diced
2 stalks celery, diced
2 carrots, diced
1/2 lbs bacon
1 Tblsp ground corriander
1 tsp ground savory
1 can tomato sauce (no salt added)
1 can diced tomatoes (no salt added)
1 cup red wine
1 Tblsp olive oil
4 cloves garlic, crushed
salt
pepper
cumin
beef or vegetable broth (optional)

1. Rub all sides of roast with salt, pepper, and cumin
2. Heat olive oil in pot over high heat. Sear all sides of the roast and remove from pot.
3. Wrap bacon around seared roast (setting aside 2 or 3 slices) and sear again, removing from pot afterwards
4. Chop the slices of bacon you had set aside. Add the chopped bits to the hot pot and cook until fat starts to render
5. Add onions, carrots, celery, garlic, coriander, savory, salt & pepper to taste. Cook over med-high until the veggies get soft
6. Add wine, tomato sauce, tomatoes. Stir and bring to boil
7. Add bacon-wrapped roast to pot, making sure the liquid mostly covers the roast. If there isn't enough liquid, add more wine and/or some broth to cover.
8. Turn heat down to a fast simmer. Cover and let simmer for an hour.
9. After an hour, reduce heat further, try to get it down to just under a simmer. Cover for at least 2 more hours, the longer the better.

The pot roast was fantastic.

It sounds delicious!! I may have to give that a try, thanks!

I LOLed at the little song at the end.

This is going into my "To Try" section of my recipe database. :cheers:

Did the bacon iPod sleeve already get posted?

Looks more like Kobe Beef to me. :p

On paper it sounds delicious, but holy hell that photo looks foul.

Hmm, I had an opposite reaction. I'm a big fan of the poached, busted up egg in soups, pastas, anything so I immediately get excited, hehe...

I heard a saying once that goes "It's as ugly as home made soup". I didn't know what that meant until I saw that picture.

I don't know if this was mentioned in this thread already, but and interesting find none the less!

I missed out on the bacon and chocolate funnel cakes at Knott's on Sunday. But if they sold well, Knott's was gonna add them to the regular menu.

huh. and here I was wishing I had a bowl right now.

Ditto

Another case of, ymmv.

Anyone want to come to the Boston Bacon and Beer Festival?

I was amused by this:
So, it appears you don't get anything more for that $10. Maybe it is a donation

Damn, won't be in Boston until September.

want to? yes..more than Im able to say. :snap:

likely? sadly...VERY sadly no

I wants to go!

I scored a 6 1/2 lb slab of bacon for $7.50! Oh all the bacony goodness that will come from that :D

I'm going to make a big pot of Chef Oscars potato soup this weekend!

Sliced? Datsa a good deal!

Yes, thick sliced and hickory smoked!

I'm sure I'll freeze some of it. It was too good of a deal to pass up. Gary said he was proud of me for only buying one :blush:

Recipe to share?

Where? We have a camping trip that this would come in handy for

It was at Safeway. I don't know if you have those down south. I asked the butcher why they were marked down, when they don't expire until May, and he said they were changing their display.

I also bought a skirt steak real cheap because it was the last one they had. Now I need to figure out what to do with it.

Snow, I will find it later and post it for you.

Where'd you get that?

Recipe to share, copied from the email, with personal tips at the end;

Loaded Baked Potato Cheese Soup
Yield: six 8-oz portions

Ingredients:
4 large Russet Potatoes (peeled and small diced)
4 med Red Potatoes (small diced)
6 oz (2 large stalks) Celery (small diced)
6 oz (1 large or 2 small) Carrots (peeled and small diced)
1 med yellow Onion (small diced)
2 oz(4 T.) unsalted Butter
1 lb. bacon (rough chopped) (*tip: place slices of bacon in the freezer to make it easier to cut. Will slip less)
16 oz Chicken stock or vegetable stock
32 oz Heavy Whipping Cream
2 oz(1/4 cup) Flour
1 oz vegetable oil
Salt/ pepper to taste
* Small dice = ¼ in. x ¼ in.

Garnish with these items if desired:
Chives (chopped)
Bacon Bits
Sour Cream
Cheddar and Mozzarella Cheese (shredded)


Procedure:
1. Place stock pot, (6-8 quart pot) over medium heat. Add the vegetable oil, butter and bacon. Start rendering the bacon (process of releasing the fat through cooking). The bacon will start to release its fat. Do not allow it to burn.
2. Cook bacon till crispy, remove and set aside on a paper towel; leaving the fat from the bacon in the pan. Add onions, carrots, and celery. Traditionally these 3 items are called the MIREPOIX. Sweat the mirepoix until the onions turn translucent. Add potatoes and cook for 4 minutes. Add the flour to make roux. Cook roux until blond in color, (about 5 to 7 minutes), while stirring constantly. Add chicken stock and half of the bacon back into the pan. (Reserve the rest of the bacon for garnish.) Seasoned with salt and pepper.
3. Turn the heat to medium high, bring the soup up to a simmer and cook for 15 minutes or until the potatoes are soft and tender. Mash some of the potatoes for thicker, creamier texture. Add whipping cream and simmer for 5 minutes.
4. You can adjust the thickness by adding water or stock for a thinner soup. It should have a creamy consistency. Adjust your seasonings.
5. Garnish with your desired toppings.

Created by Sous Chef Mhike Hugo

My tips- In step 2 it says to add potatoes to mirepoix before making the roux. I have never tried to make a roux with potatos in it so I made the roux with the mirepoix and added the potatoes later. It seems to me the potatoes would just "hold on to" the flour.
I also needed more chicken broth than was called for. It was too thick to come to a simmer very well. I find cooking it longer at a little lower temp is better also.

Both came from Safeway. It was a very worthwhile shopping trip, even if the price of milk has shot up crazily!

They kept the Vons name down here

Pair it with a nice blouse steak and a pair of tasteful pumps and you will have a nice ensemble.

Kevy, apparently I have to spread some before giving it to you again.

VKBM

I vote to ban use of this initialism as it can too easily stand for "Visual Kevy Bowel Movement".

Eww...

That's 2 votes.

Yes, it says that on the next line down.

The next line down is a separate entry for making a cash donation of any amount. I assume that the extra $10 is a donation, but they don't make it clear.

A friend posted this on FB and one of his friends declared "bacon's gross." Glad I don't know that person....

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There would have to be a lot of bouquets at a LoT function.

Wedding idea!! LOL

[Homer]"Plants that grow bacon... Mmmmm!"[/Homer]

I'm eating bacon right now.

Like is hell, I have no bacon in my house. Not a smidgen, not a slice, not even a baco.

It was really good bacon too. :evil:

Bastard! ;)

I bought bacon today.

I get the ends & pieces packages. It is cheaper and I don't end up stressing about the bacon not being perfect. I got a 3 pound pack for $3.99.

If you see someone drowning - lol bacon!!!

I'm glad the scientific community is finally catching up to what we already knew!

Wow, this is post 1950 about bacon.

Love it!

I just put bacon on my shopping list because I'm out.

I gotta tell ya, I've been cooking up a bunch of french dishes lately. Most of them start with cooking bacon "Lardones", removing them, and cooking onion in the bacon fat and putting the lardones back in the dish. The flavor and silkiness the bacon adds is amazing. It's usually only a few slices into a big dish that also uses olive oil as the rest of the fat, so it's not all that unhealthy. ;)

I made sourdough pancakes this morning. So of course, I also made bacon!

Need recipe for sourdough pancakes.....please!?

Gary has been begging me to make sour dough starter so he can have sourdough pancakes. I'd love the recipe too, please.

Our new bakery had bacon and cheddar bagels, so we bought two. They are very good, with big chunks of bacon.

The first thing you need to make the sourdough pancakes is the sourdough starter. You usually get this from a friend or neighbor, though there are ways to make it from scratch (some recipes even cheat and add lemon juice!:eek: ). But keep in mind that sourdough is a live culture and needs to be cared for constantly.

I found that after making sourdough pancakes from scratch for over 10 years, I liked Aunt Jamima even better, and it was a whole lot easier.

Periodic Bacon T-shirt. When you enjoy your bacon periodically.

Bacon Flavored Jelly Beans



Bacon Flavored Gumballs

The Original Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of All Recipes

Some of the photos during the process:

My heart just skipped a beat.

Just deep fat fry it and you'll be fine.

After reading the recipe, I totally want a burger with a slice of that as the patty.

Using bacon grease as the oil!