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beamjockey ([personal profile] beamjockey) wrote2006-10-04 12:57 pm

"If Something Doesn't Taste Good, We Put Bacon on It."

In today's Chicago Sun-Times, ace food journalist Leah A. Zeldes meets all your bacon needs. She examines trendy bacon cookbooks, lists bacon-oriented blogs, offers bacon recipes, and compiles a glossary of baconspeak.

I tasted her Bacon Brittle. It was delicious.

[identity profile] wcg.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
As [livejournal.com profile] mamatiger says, "Bacon, the crack cocaine of breakfast meats!"

[identity profile] drzarron.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
How long as Leah been writing for them? And about bacon?

And then there's Pig Candy . . .

[identity profile] mia-mcdavid.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 06:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Cover bacon strips thickly with a mixture of brown sugar and finely chopped pecans. Bake until the bacon is cooked and the sugar melted. Cool.

Bacon

[identity profile] minnehaha.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 06:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks for the pointer.

B

[identity profile] johnridley.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
I refer you to this comic:
http://www.salon.com/comics/knig/2006/06/07/knig/story.gif
"Bacon is the only meat I've ever seen break a vegatarian down... Bacon truly is 'the marijuana of meats'"

[identity profile] daddy-guido.livejournal.com 2006-10-04 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
MMMMM, Bacon.

DOGS CAN'T READ!!!!!

To each his own.

[identity profile] gypsy1969.livejournal.com 2006-10-05 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
Bacon Brittle (goes off to retch...)
I used to love bacon until...
I had to eat Jowl bacon because we were too poor for the good stuff when I was young.
Then as a young adult I would cook 2-3 lbs. of bacon at a time for my ex. and he would consume it all in one sitting.
And now I'm a vegetarian and the idea just grosses me out...
But now that veggie bacon stuff is pretty good.

[identity profile] von-krag.livejournal.com 2006-10-05 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
A lot of poormans cooking is way mo betta when bacon is in it. Um, it's close to hog killin time too. Makes me taste buds excited.

[identity profile] marklafon.livejournal.com 2006-11-07 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Best bacon is the old fashioned stuff in the smokehouse. Big slabs a few inches thick, cured, smoked and wrapped in cloth. It is hard enough to stop a bullet and has to be sawn, not cut, when you want a hunk for the kitchen. You usually don't fry it (too hard ot cut into thin strips) but chunk it into a pot of green beans for flavor.

And the smokehouse still smells great in August.