February 9, 2014: Getting ready for Valentine's Day and Road Bacon

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues as we prepare for V-Day, and coverage of bacon on the road.  Spoiler: no bacon cooking this week due to a ski weekend.

VALENTINE'S DAY IS RAPIDLY APPROACHING - it's Friday - and you still have time to order some bacon goodies online. 

I've reviewed bacon from BACONFREAK before... the bacons are generally too oily, overly flavored (I particularly didn't like their Cajun bacon) and over-cured (evidenced by the deep translucence in the fat).  You can look at the headlines to find my previous posts on this bacon.  So I would caution you about ordering it for home cooking and use... but the chocolate goodies!  They look great!

How about the following products, which can be ordered (and get to your honey in time for Friday's big day!) HERE.  Follow the promotion on the page to save 20% - and NO, I don't get any $$ for this info:

• Boss Hog Dark Chocolate Covered Bacon Strips
• Milk Chocolate Hearts Flavored with Bacon
• Chocolate Rose Lollipops Flavored with Bacon
• Chocolate Caramel Pretzels Flavored with Bacon

HERE IS ANOTHER OPTION to please your special person.  A really easy to make recipe of toast, bacon and egg.  Picture below, easy to make, thoroughly overdocumented recipe page here.

ROAD BACON!  This week, I've been on the road and unable to prepare my usual bacon review of home-cooked commercially available fare.  However, here are two bacons from the road.

The first is a bacon cheeseburger at Kodiak Jack's in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. 

Outstanding burger, cool ambiance with lots of taxidermy products (you don't see that every day!) at Jack's, and just good bacon.

The second was a road bacon & eggs breakfast at a Marriott.  I am a big Marriott traveler and use the chain whenever I can.  This one was perfectly cooked crispy bacon in a warmer, with a side of scrambled eggs.  Most hotel self-serve bacon, eggs and sausage is limp, overcooked and flavorless.  But Marriott gets it right.
Again, no funding to me for these plugs!

We had dinner at a great place in Wausau, Wisconsin: 

Amanda took care of us, after we had a great conversation with Haley, who said a friend of hers likes bacon.  Haley was a great conversationalist, a community volunteer, teacher and basketball coach, in addition to being very pretty!  Haley suggested that we order the Bella Bella pizza, which we did later.  Thank you, Haley! 

However, in the meantime, Amanda overheard our conversation about bacon, and brought me some Neuske's thick sliced smoked bacon, which we immediately consumed.  I had a flight of beer:

the bacon, followed by the pizza.  From left to right: Golden Ale, Tragically Hopped (super hopped!), Tartan Toddy, and Jupiter, with Amanda in the background.

Redeye, in Wausau is highly recommended.  Great beer (brewed there), great service, great food.  And bacon.  A very cool place.  A definite re-do.  What more could you want?

I know, there was some 'non bacon' stuff in here.  Just chalk it up to the "My life" part of "My life with bacon", ok?  See you next week.