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Ingredient Spotlight: Slab Bacon

We love bacon as much as the next omnivore, and we love using it in our cooking even more. A slice or two of slowly-rendered bacon is a great way to start off a soup or a braise. Recently, we've start...

Weekend Meditation: Autumn Kitchen Welcoming Winter

We're deep into Autumn right now. The move from bright to dark has begun, a yearly non-negotiable event that has a profound influence on our lives. The extent that we can shift with it will become t...

Recipe: Bite Sized Bacon Caramels

There are just some things that were made to be together. Peanut butter and jelly, tomatoes and basil and best of all, caramels and bacon. There was a caramel bacon fad a year ago, but we wanted to...

Seasonal Recipe: Pumpkin Soup with Bacon

My farm box delivered the most exquisite treasure a few weeks ago, the fairy tale-like Musquee de Provence Pumpkin. It's been sitting on my dining room table and as much as I would love to keep it ar...

Try This! How To Make Candied Salted Bacon

There comes a time in everyone's life when you're standing in the kitchen at 2am (pants optional) testing recipes. The quickly approaching morning sun seems irrelevant when you're busy creating the s...

S.T.'s Tex-Mex Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Nuggets
Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009

Recipe: Tex Mex Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Nuggets with Homemade Chipotle Ranch Category: Omnivore How long does it take? 20 minutes prep, 15 minutes cooking Name: S.T. Why is it a favorite meal? It's t...

Best Methods: Three Ways to Cook Bacon

Unless you're a vegetarian (though sometimes even then), it's hard to resist the lure of bacon. Knowing how to cook those long marbled strips just the way we like them feels as second-nature as breath...

Guide to Better Bacon by Ari Weinzweig
Book Review 2009

Wait, the bacon trend isn't over yet? Some think it never will be. Others, like Ari Weinzweig, never called it a trend and never will. I've shared pork product with this man and I can tell you he's a ...

Re-Inventing a Summer Classic: Bacon, Lettuce, and...?

Looking at that BLT poster this morning made us crave the real thing. But tomatoes are mighty scarce in some parts of the country right now due to a crop blight in New England. This has forced us to b...

The BLW Sandwich and Potato Chip Wine Pairings
From Nationwide Newspaper Food Sections 8.26.09

What's that on your sandwich? Bacon, lettuce and ... watermelon? Find out more about that recipe below, plus wines to drink with your potato chips, an award-winning goat cheese and the science behind ...

Casual Entertaining: BLTs for Dinner

Why not? It's arguable, but we're not sure there's a better sandwich to eat when tomatoes are at their peak (maybe this one). BLTs take very little effort, and you can customize them with different ad...

BaconCamp Is Coming!

Watch out, bacon lovers. Bacon Camp may be coming to a city near you. And what is Bacon Camp? It's a whole day of sharing and learning about bacon, inspired by the community-driven learning event know...

Quick Reminder: Cook Bacon Low and Slow

With the arrival of summer tomatoes, we've been eating a lot of BLTs. We spread our bacon slices out in a very large pan and cook them on the stovetop, and we were reminded last night that it pays to ...

Tip: Save Your Bacon Fat

This is one practice we think all of our grandmothers probably did that's fallen by the wayside in our generation. But saving the grease left from cooking a batch of bacon isn't just frugal, it's a gr...

Bacon Pops! Goat Cheese Pops with Herbs, Pecans, & Bacon

Oh yes. All the cuteness of a cake pop, all the fun of an easy appetizer, and it's all wrapped up in bacon....

Appetizer Recipe: Bacon-Wrapped Potato Bites with Spicy Sour Cream Dipping Sauce

Okay, we're not going to win any awards for thinking up this combination. But hey, these potato bites are easy, delicious, and perfect for a Final Four-loving crowd, should you find yourself surrounde...

Craving: BLTs (with REAL Tomatoes!)

All the pork talk this week has us craving our favorite summer sandwich - BLTs, of course! It's not even worth making one with the out-of-season tomatoes right now (especially given the recent press a...

Taste Boosters: Eight Ways to Add Smoky Flavor to a Dish

A subtle hint of woodsy smoke is one of our absolute favorite flavors in a dish - meat-based or vegetarian. Of course, cooking food on a charcoal grill will give us the flavor we crave, but we can thi...

Vegetarian (Except for Bacon)

Know any otherwise vegetarians who can't help themselves when it comes to bacon? Or any who crave it but make do with veggie versions? What is it about this cured meat that keeps so many people on the...

What's the Difference? Bacon, Pancetta, and Prosciutto

These three pork products look alike, taste somewhat similar, and even get regularly substituted for each other. It's no wonder we get them confused! In actuality, they have very distinctive character...

The Skinny On (Uncured) Beef Bacon

Beef bacon. It just sounds weird to say. Bacon as most of us know it comes from pigs and there's never really been a reason to question that. Before now, beef bacon has only been available through ...

Times Top 5: Here Comes the Bacon Explosion
From the NY Times Dining Section 01.28.09

If you've ever doubted the power of pork, this should change your mind. One BBQ blogger's creation has become so popular on the web that, well, now The New York Times is writing about it. See that, pl...

Eating Light: Turkey Bacon, Surprisingly Good

Bacon is one of our favorite foods. Really, can anything top that smoky, juicy taste? We use it sparingly to add crackly goodness to soups and pasta, and to make our morning eggs even more delicious. ...

Look! A Cozy Bacon Wrap

We've seen other examples of "wearable" bacon in years past, but this bacon wrap really takes the cake...er...the bacon. The holidays are coming - is this something you'd like to give or receive?!...

Hot or Not? Baconnaise

Justin and Dave of JD Foods think "everything should taste like bacon." They developed Bacon Salt last year, and now they've created Baconnaise - the spreadable bacon. It's 100% vegetarian and koshe...

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