My Life With Bacon

Nice breakfast bacon; no time for a full review.  Roundy's Mariano's supermarket is the Wegmans of Chicagoland!

My food-savvy son Sam Murphy got me into using a cupcake pan, and instead of putting in a paper insert for a cupcake, put Canadian bacon and/or prosciutto in there instead.  He got the idea from lifehacker .  Then, fill the cavity with eggs and cheese; bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes (or microwave as appropriate), and you have a ready-to-pop-in-your-mouth breakfast.  I tried to line the pan with bacon instead, but the bacon didn't properly crisp up. In the category of "why didn't I think of this" comes the Bacon Bowl.  Watch the video , check out their website .  Pure genius; I ordered a few and will be handing them out as gifts.  Comes with a recipe book too.  Way overpriced, but worth a look!  Stay tuned.

YES, IT'S TRUE.   Bacon, when used properly, can actually cure a disease , within a couple of hours.  Check out this story about a young woman from Connecticut, who, upon returning from a vacation trip to Columbia, had incredible pain in her head.  She had become infected with a screwworm infestation, known as myiasis, during the trip.  Columbian doctors gave her antibiotics, but they didn't work.  Her US doctors applied petroleum jelly, and BACON to her skin, which resulted in the attraction and death of 142 larvae! The original article is in Discover Magazine. "In the U.S., the agriculture department wiped out screwworms by releasing sterilized male screwworm flies into the wild wherein they bred uselessly with females and obliterated the population, according to Discover Magazine."   Only this simple picture (from the CDC) will be provided, but you can do your own search for screwworm.  Nasty. But the good news is that we found...

The dogs are available at Roundy's Mariano's store (the Wegmans of Chicagoland)!  Will be using a Life hacker method to test 'em. Check out the lifehacker method of cooking hot dogs; it's very cool.  You essentially impale your dog with a skewer, and then cut a spiral into the hot dog.  This lets all the condiments (and that's a big deal here in Chicagoland) have a home on the dog, and not falling out.  Genius !  The picture is actually from the lifehacker site:   The bacon hot dog had only a hint of bacon flavor, but it was distinctive enough.  Worth the buy! Juicy and flavorful. You can only get these in Chicagoland at Roundy's supermarket.  I've inquired at other markets; no dice.  My dog was not as photogenic as lifehacker's.  Or since this is a blog and is supposed to be topical, should I say my weiner was not as photogenic?

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with a review of Louie's Finer Meats bacon, as well as some Bison Bacon from Lester's Country Store - both are from different Wisconsin outfits.  But first, a bit of news! BACON IN THE NEWS . BACON BACON IN TROUBLE .  If you are a Saturday Night Live fan, you've probably heard about this.  If you live in San Francisco, and in particular the Haight Ashbury neighborhood, you're living it.  It's all about the Bacon Bacon restaurant.  The current home page announces " BACON BACON IS VICTORIOUS ". I've written about the Bacon Bacon truck before.  It is the mobile version of the restaurant by the same name, situated in the aforementioned formerly-hippie-now-gentrified neighborhood.  Funny how the hippies who caused trouble there in the 60's and 70's are, today, wrapped really tight.  They've been complaining about the bacon smells in their neighborhood!  So much so, that they got the city to ...