Ode to Bacon
Bacon, how I love thee, let me count the ways……
August has been declared bacon month in Manitoba and in bacon’s honour I went back through my posts to see how often and for what occasions I cook with bacon. (Writing a blog is a very helpful tool when you have a menopausal memory and a busy life). Here’s what I came up with:
Bacon Brussel Sprout Breakfast
Bacon-Wrapped Jalapeño Meatballs
Bacon-Wrapped Sea/Chicken Bundles
We’re so crazy about bacon that when I tasted bacon jam for my first time, on a hotdog at The Keg Steakhouse and Bar, I just had to figure out how to make it:
We even search out bacon delicacies when we are on holidays in Mexico:
Bacon Bimbo Dogs on Isla Mujeres
and in our favourite city (next to Winnipeg):
Winnipeggers will have a fabulous opportunity to check out the bacon and other pork offerings at this weekend’s Winnipeg BBQ and Blues Festival. Bacon month culminates with a Bacon Party at Rudy’s Eat and Drink on August 30th, 2014. Manitoba Pork also has a draw where 20 lucky winners will get bacon for a year. See the details at manitobapork.com/bacon to enter. Bacon, how I love thee, let me count the ways….
Kath’s quote: “I’ve long said that if I were about to be executed and were given a choice of my last meal, it would be bacon and eggs. There are few sights that appeal to me more than the streaks of lean and fat in a good side of bacon, or the lovely round of pinkish meat framed in delicate white fat that is Canadian bacon. Nothing is quite as intoxicating as the smell of bacon frying in the morning, save perhaps the smell of coffee brewing.”-James Beard
Love-that is all.
