Yummy, Yummy Bacon and Other Stuff

From yesterdays “Detroit News“:

Mmmm, bacon! The salty, fatty rashers, often served with eggs, recently had a culinary awakening and began showing up covered in chocolate, infused in liquors and atop cupcakes.

But it’s not just foodies who are raving about bacon. It is now being embraced by doctors, who are hailing pork strips as a treatment for rare, life-threatening nosebleeds.

Yeah buddy!  The docs at the Detroit Medical Center are rockin’ the pork.

Go read the rest of the story…you know you’re intrigued!

I LOVE bacon. I also love coffee.  So how could this go wrong?

Coffee Glazed Bacon

Ingredients:

• 6 to 8 slices of Smoked Bacon
• 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
• 1/4 cup Hot Espresso
• 1/4 tsp Paprika
• 1/4 tsp Black Pepper

Directions:

You’re gonna have to pop over to Instructables to get those (and see step-by-step photos).

If I was to EVER get me a kilt, I’d have to look at this pattern…

Have a great night everyone.  Check out The Daily Bacon on Facebook for the winner of our Baconery contest.

Thanks to FoTDB Brandon for letting me steal this from his Facespace.

Out of the blue, I received an email from this guy Wesley with the subject  “Have you seen this?”  This was the email in it’s entirety:

www.baconery.com

Life is Just Better with Bacon

Wesley
Sent from my iPad

So there you go!  Although skeptical and against my better judgement, I clicked the link and what I found on the other side was this…(go ahead, click, experience for yourself, I’ll wait)

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Yeah, right?!  A slick, professional site that was selling some incredibly good looking bacon baked goods!  Okay, maybe this Wesley guy was legit…so I write him back asking if he’d like to provide some “samples”.  About three days later, this arrives…

Let’s get this to the kitchen… [Read more →]

What is better THAN bacon!  Today’s simple, quick bacon recipe is for….

Baked bacon!

Ingredients:

• Bacon

Directions:

1. Place a long sheet of foil on a baking sheet
2. Place the bacon on top of the sheet about an inch apart from each slice
3. Put the sheet in the oven and turn it to 425 degrees and bake for 15-16 minutes
4. Remove and place the bacon on several sheets of paper towels to soak up the grease and then serve

Enjoy!

Thanks to A Zesty Bite for the chuckle tonight!

ED NOTE: This was not the special surprise I was going to write about as all the photos for the post are sitting on my work computer.  Tomorrow, promise!

This is a stuffed bacon cheeseburger.  This photo alone does not begin to convey it’s mouth-watering awesomeness…so I invite you to click and see the complete “album”.

You may need a dribble cloth…

via 9GAG

ED NOTE: I know I said I’d have something special for you today, but I need some more time to get that post together, so tomorrow…

Duh!

This is a great new poster over at Factry.

18″ x 24″ for $20 bills. That’s less than a dollar per square inch!

Click on over to see it in more detail and if you like it, buy it!

Have a great weekend everyone.  I’ve got something special for you on Monday!

After the “all Charlie” post yesterday, I can across a series of Facespace messages from another long time FoTDB Dina (SHOUT OUT!).  Dina’s been a BIG supporter of this little blog and just after the New Year she sent not one but five, FIVE, recipes that included candied bacon.

Candied Bacon Ice Cream

Candied Bacon Green Salad

Candied Bacon Maple Popcorn

Chocolate Chip Candied Bacon Pancakes

Candied Bacon Butter!

See something you like?  Of course you do!

Thanks for all the bacon love Dina and for being a loyal TDBer!

Photos via davidlebovitz, jaimeoliver, pinterest, evilshenanigans and tablespoon

Long time “brotha’ from anotha’ motha’ “  and FoTDB Charles (SHOUT OUT!) has been nothing but consistent in his submission of bacon related photos over the years.  So today I thought I’d show him some love here on the interwebs for his continued contributions…

Keep sendin’ them Charlie!

I am breaking with the now customary routine of blogging at night to bring you this important and time sensitive post!

SHIRT WOOT!!!

Today’s daily shirt is entitled “Motivation” and you can see why!

10 dolla, make you holla’…go get one.

Out!