As gardens are starting to bear fruit, one might want to enjoy a cold, crisp salad on a warm summer night!  Alas even I, your bacon boy, do enjoy a nice salad every once in a while.

photo via Sarah Nett - My Culinary Sanctuary

When living in Peoria, there was a restaurant, VOP’s (Vonachen’s Old Place), that my bosses father used to own.  We’d go there for the occassional business lunch and that is where I had a Spinach Salad for the first time.  The nice thing about a good Spinach Salad is that it usually features both crumbled bacon AND if lucky a warm bacon dressing.

Those memories came back to me today when I found this recipe: [Read more →]

Last weekend there was this little event called COMIC-CON happening in San Diego.  Nerd Nirvana for me and many others.  In all my years, I have only been able to go to San Diego just once and now with Lil’ Baird in the mix and as I am no longer working in the sports and entertainment industries, I probably won’t be able to go again for a few more years…so like many, I gots to get my news through the interwebs.

While catching up today, reading a few show summaries, I ran into this link on Maximum PC.  They are featuring 600 images of costumed individuals from this year’s Con.  I absolutely love CosPlay (I think it stems from my overall love of Halloween)! Some of the outfits you run into at Con’s are just incredible and VERY creative.  I will spare you the slave Leia or fat guy in spandex photo (although there are plenty featured) and just share with you the ONE photo that I thought was brilliant:

Ladies and Gentlemen…. [Read more →]