SHOUT OUT to Amy (a peep in Peoria) for sending me this recipe last week.

We’ve featured similar recipes before but I’m such a sucker for homemade mac and cheese and this just looks so good.

Hit the jump for the full recipe… [Read more →]

If you are french, a french chef or fan of “Top Chef“ this may rub you the wrong way.

And as for bacon recipes this one may be a stretch…but the recipe does include bacon and crock pot cooking is supposed to be easy…

Catch the recipe after the jump. [Read more →]

Friends of TDB, allow me to introduce you to Justin.  Justin has been a great fan out of little website and (just so happens) really digs on swine like the rest of us.

Well, he got inspired this weekend and made something quite delicious…

Yes, bacon beer brats!

So I said “Justin, can I post this” and he said” Hells Yeah!” so here you go…his recipe with commmentary and photos after the jump. [Read more →]

Another savory dish from our friends up north!  This would make a great side dish for, say, a 14 oz. bacon wrapped filet?!?

Man, I just made my stomach rumble…

Check it out after the jump… [Read more →]

After snowmagadon (let’s try spelling that again) Snowmageddon last night in SE Michigan, there couldn’t be a better time for a warm, hearty soup (with bacon)…

Thank goodness for this recipe from chef Christopher Deraiche, chef/part owner of Ottawa’s Wellington Gastropub.  That’s up there in Can-na-da where they know something about the stick to your ribs goodness of a hearty broth!

Now doesn’t that just look good?!

Ingredients are in metric so consider yourself forewarned.

Recipe after the jump… [Read more →]

I have been playing Cafe World on Facebook for close to four months now.  My initial excitement over the game has wained over the last few weeks and I have wanted to stop playing, but seeing two of my friends jump past me in experience has riled up my competitive juices once again. Now I’m back in it every day (URGH, AURGH). 

So the other day, while clearing my Facebook requests, I saw this… [Read more →]

I know that we have featured “candied” bacon before in out “Better with Bacon” segments but this is different for three reasons:

A) The recipe is in video form, 2) the video is of Jolene the Trailer Park Queen and third, the recipe includes my other love and addiction, coffee.

So watch and learn grasshoppers!

I listen to NPR every day, I’m their fan on facebook, yet I completely missed THIS story from last week.  How the heck did that happen??

From Susan Russo, an NPR contributor and food writer in San Diego.  She discusses how bacon has made it’s way on to the dessert table…

Paired sweet and salty flavors is why we love kettle corn, chocolate-covered pretzels and Snickers bars.  From that perspective, chocolate-covered bacon and bacon cupcakes suddenly seem, well, right.

Right indeed!

She also provides four great bacon dessert recipes, the first was actually featured earlier today in our “Better with Bacon” segment (so while I found the dessert on Dying for Chocolate, they actually found it here).

Take a quick read and check out the rest of those recipes.  It may be time for another TEST KITCHEN soon!

I got so tied up yesterday that I failed to post our regular “Better with Bacon” segment.  Sorry about that.  Blame the holidays for making everything crazy.

Here’s a great looking recipe that just screams comfort to me AND the way they put it together, looks relatively healthy!

No photo for this one, but the recipe is after the jump! [Read more →]

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST BESTEST AND GREATEST USES OF BACON EVER!!!!

Okay, maybe I am a little “over” excited, but I really loved her creativity.

It’s bacon sushi people…BACON SUSHI…LOOK AT THAT PLATE!!!  LOOK AT IT!!!!!

** deep breath **

Sorry for yelling.  I’m okay now…

To see how they put it all together and more great pictures, head over to What I Eat, Apparently.