My Life With Bacon

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with gigantic bacon cravings, a very cool recipe for bacon wrapped onion rings, and some serious bacon crime.   BACON IN THE NEWS   YES.   Finally, a bacon-wrapped onion ring.  Combining two foods after which I lust in a foodie way. I think I may have to go out and get myself a deep fryer – one of the few kitchen gadgets I currently don’t own. The author is completely off base, however.  The likelihood of getting diabetes from eating this food is highly unlikely.  It clearly has significantly more FAT and protein than high-insulin-reactive carbohydrates.  I don’t think you can load the rings or the bacon up with enough coating to generate a big insulin spike.  But I could be wrong. In any event, the picture does look un-appealing .  I think it’s simply the darkness of the batter-coated bacon.  Anyway, if I do make it, I’ll let you know how it turned out.  LINK courtesy of my daughter...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week without eating bacon (so sad) the passing of a great business leader in the world of meat (also very sad) and some bacon news.  Ending with a comparison of fried eggs from three sources. BACON IN THE NEWS    BACON CAUSES SMOG?  Some Chinese officials are blaming the numerous bacon-smoking factories for the smog enshrouding cities. Check out this site  from The Telegraph.  They report that " Rao Bing, deputy head of the Dazhou environment protection bureau said the city's ongoing bout of "lingering smog" since January should be blamed on the local affection for smoking bacon, Xinhua reported."  Chinese bureaucrat claims bacon is to blame.  Yeah, right. Of course you can blame bacon - forget about all the cars, diesel trucks, other factories and construction!  Blame bacon!  Easy target!  But I agree with one or who said: "Only a pig-headed person would think that air pollution ...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with Beer & Bacon, starting a new eating regime, and CrossFit! BACON IN THE NEWS   BEER & BACON AT THE TROP: A good reason to head back to NJ is the Tropicana's 2015 Bacon and Beer week!  Two of my favorite indulgences paired for the entire week, in Atlantic City.  A quote from the article , worth reading: - a snippet of a discussion between husband and wife who made the trip: “You can’t pass up beer and bacon,” Tim Marconi said, explaining the basic theory behind the trip. And what about that theory that January should be the month to get to the gym, not the bar? “The heck with that,” his wife said firmly, only in slightly stronger terms. “I want bacon.” Now that's a good wife... ON TO VEGAN BACON: As you know, Vegans don't eat Bacon.  The Huffington Post, God bless them, write about bacon frequently.  They posted this about making bacon without bacon!  Interesting; they prov...

MY LIFE WITH BACON continues this week with Chicago bacon from the Paulina Market and PeaPod, a gift bacon book, and some bacon news. Oddly, some of these pictures don't post properly; I'll have to look into why.  If you encounter problems, please let me know. BACON IN THE NEWS   As previously  mentioned, December 30 th was National Bacon day; as this article says , “not to be confused with International Bacon Day, celebrated on the Saturday before Labor Day.”  The photo above is from the “ Bacon Shell Taco ”, which was the “centerpiece of the Bacon Day celebration at B.C. Café in Davie” (Florida).  I’ve often thought that the invention of a bacon taco shell form (like the Bacon Bowl ) would be a great innovation.  Place your bacon on the taco form and bake; out comes a crispy bacon taco shell.  You can have the idea, for free.  Daughter Caitlin gave me a cool, large format, thick book called “ The BigBook of Bacon ” for Ch...