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.

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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…

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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…

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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 →]

Here’s one I haven’t seen before and it is incredibly easy!!

photo via Matt McKeon, Times Daily

Tomato Bacon Cups!

Not only do I have the recipe for you, but there’s VIDEO too…so there is NO REASON for you not to try this recipe yourself. [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!

Oh to wake up to the sweet aroma of a maple and bacon baked good…

Get on that Better Half (hint, hint)

I’m even providing the recipe (after the jump) [Read more →]

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!

Quick, easy and honestly just plain tasty sounding…

Great thing about a meal like this is that it’d store well and still be tasty as a leftover for lunch.

Recipe after the jump.

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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 →]