Bacon Bouquet

So my wife sent me this picture. A coworker of one of her friends received this for his birthday at work. It was caringly made by his girlfriend.

Now this is special, a few dozen tasty morsels of bacon arranged in a beautiful bouquet!

A quick Google search provided many recipes/instructions for the creations including this one at Fast Company.

This reminds me that I heard that the people at Edible Arrangements were marketing their bouquets for Father's Day. In my opinion, Epic Fail. On the other hand which Father wouldn't love to proudly partake in a Bacon Bouquet. I hope to see one soon from my wife or from any one, please.

Delicious Dinner Tonight

The other day I stopped by the local Haggen's meat department for some dinner. We were having sausages but I was enticed by the Gorgonzola Angus Beef Patties they had. I picked one up along with the sausages and a pound of their pepper bacon. I had some pepper bacon left over and decided it was time to create a burger.

I started cooking the bacon up in the frying pan and dropped in the patty. Almost every burger I see on Drive-ins, Diners and Dives is cooked on a flat grill so I decided to bypass the BBQ tonight. I toasted up some sourdough bread spread on a little mayo and I was set.

The burger/gorgonzola was delicious, the frying pan put a nice crust on it (the bacon grease probably helped too!) The bacon was delicious and the toasted sourdough made it a completely perfect burger. I can't really think of how to improve this one...maybe more bacon...

Twitter is a Wonderful Thing

Someone tweeted a link to a pretty amazing website the other day, no not http://peopleofwalmart.com/ which is pretty glorious, but a little website called www.Scanwiches.com. Basically it is a website with cross section scans of some pretty glorious sandwiches. I will be honest, I would love to dig into pretty much all of them, minus the tomatoes. A good portion of them include bacon of all types.

If your sandwich creativity is lacking I would suggest you head over for some masterpieces!

Jews for Bacon

Saw a link for this site the other day, www.jews4bacon.com. It is good to see that some Jews out there are finally entering the 1st century...what will be up next? Jews for Jesus? Oh wait... http://www.jews-for-jesus.org/

Bacon Topped Maple Bar

On the way home from a miserable trip to the Oregon Coast, where I found cold weather and miserable surf, I had a pleasant surprise. Usually on a trip like this it would be a speedy trip home but since my wife and buddy's girlfriend were along we decided to make a stop. For some reason they wanted some warm liquids after shivering for hours on the beach.

We stopped at Sleepy Monk Coffee Roasters in Cannon Beach. I opted to stay in the car with my can of Diet Coke while the three went in. My wife came back with a pleasant surprise. A delicious maple bar with two meaty strips of bacon on top. Now I had heard of such a thing from the famous Voodoo Doughnut's in Portland but had not had a chance to partake due to my lack of trips into the big city since moving to suburbia.

I do have to say it was quite delicious. The bacon gives not only the obvious boost in flavor but adds some great texture as well. Hopefully sarcastically, my wife chimed in as I was enjoying it that it should be pretty easy to make. I think so since I do know several sources for maple bars and am able to cook a mean strip of bacon.

Bakon Vodka

Yes you read that correctly. Apparently the new hot vodka on the town is Bacon flavored Vodka coming out of the http://www.blackrockspirits.com/ cellar. There seems to be a lot of bacon flavored products coming out these days and why stop short of Vodka. Flavored Vodkas are also every where so I guess it was only a matter of time. According to www.baconvodka.com :

"Bakon Vodka is a superior quality potato vodka with a savory bacon flavor. It’s clean, crisp, and delicious. This is the only vodka you’ll ever want to use to make a Bloody Mary, and it's a complementary element of both sweet and savory drinks."

I don't know about you but I can't wait to find a bottle for those special occasions that call for something out of the ordinary. You know like breakfast...

J & D's Bacon Salt Shipment

So just a quick post to let you know I got a mother load shipment in from the J&D Bacon Salt people. Amazon had a sweet deal on their products and if I bought enough I qualified for free super saver shipping.

I got 3 jars of Baconnaise, 3 original cans of bacon salt and the 4 pack of the different varieties of bacon salt. I haven't gotten to dig in much yet, I planned on having some with a store bought sandwich but realized it already had bacon on it...

More reports to follow!