Tag: bacon

more bacon-related ramblings

I realize my last few posts have been about bacon.  Surely no one has a problem with this.  I mean, bacon is one of the best foods, and it goes well with a lot of other foods.  I didn’t intend to keep writing about bacon, but it just kept coming up in conversations.  See, I’m doing it again!  I’m writing about the trend of writing about bacon, and so I’m writing about bacon again.

Actually, I had some bacon earlier for supper…  I stopped by Taco Bell to try their new Bacon Club Chalupa.  It sounded good, and I wanted to research* it for all of the faithful Buffet o’ Blog readers.  (Yeah, I’m willing to make such sacrifices.)  It was pretty good, too.  It had chicken and bacon plus a special sauce, along with the regular taco toppings.  I’d eat it again.

* eat

bacon chili-cheese dip

Since we’ve been talking about bacon, I’ll take it a step further.  Wouldn’t bacon be good in cheese dip?  I know, some people get weirded out if their cheese dip has any type of lumps in it.  But I already make a chili-cheese dip that has chunks of meat in it, so what is a few more?  (And my research* has shown that using either Tostitos Scoops or Fritos Scoops is good for it, because you can get the right amount of cheese dip plus the chunks of meat in each bite.)

I think some additional research will be required in this area…  🙂

* I’ve eaten it, and I’m a good judge of cheese dip.

bacon chili

After yesterday’s post on bacon pancakes, some of the staff here at Buffet o’ Blog were discussing new uses of bacon, and we wondered why we never hear anything about a bacon chili…  Surely that would be good!  (FYI, I’m not talking about chili where bacon is the only meat… I mean in addition to the normal quantities of beef, steak, or venison you would use.)

I think some research is in order (and I’m not talking about using Google — I want to try it myself).  We need to have a taste test competition, where we all make our own chili, but you have to include bacon.

Has anybody out there ever had chili with bacon in it?

pancakes with a secret ingredient

I had lunch yesterday with a guy who said he recently cooked some pancakes in bacon grease.  And wouldn’t you know, the infamous Important Doctor was sitting next to him, grinning like he was smart or something.  The guy who invented this said they were really good, but he decided to limit how many he did that way because it couldn’t be healthy at all.  He said it created a slightly crunchy shell around the pancake that tasted great.  I’d like to try one…

I imagine you could add bacon grease to a lot of dishes to make them better, and the Important Doctor claims this is good for you, but I have yet to see any documented proof of this.  If only he would create some graphs to show how that works…