Bacon

[mishak]

After the Inquisition on Friday, Tricia, Kirsten and I stay up talking till 5 in the morning, I think that last hour is mostly my incoherent rambling about bacon. Mmmmmm bacon. My favorite incarnation of pig, what salty sweet maple-cured goodness. I wish I had a fuzzy bacon-shaped stuffed-animal to cuddle at night. Or fuzzy bacon slippers. Life is bacon.

We get up at noon and I cook up a full pound of bacon for breakfast, I wish I had more. Bacon builds healthy bodies in eight different ways! Plus big fat omeletes and tater tots and toast. It's almost 3:00 and we're stuffed little piggies. It's 4:00 when we leave the house for Harvard Square cuz it's been way to long since I've bought comic books and I need shampoo and I wanna look for a Jaw CD that Addam played at the club last week. Didn't find it. Back to my house, then out again to Super88 to hunt down a durian fruit and seafood that would work on a pizza. Why do Chinese supermarkets all smell the same? There's always a woodsy, herbal, earthy undertone that smacks you in the head when you walk in. It's not unpleasant, but it's there. Like the smell of sawdust and light grease and latex paint in Home Depot, or the musty paper smell of used bookstores.

The lobster, clam and scallop pizza turns out really yummy, but we run out of dough before I can make a durian pizza. I wouldn't have been able to eat much of it, but I really wanted to make one, on general principle. A bacon pizza, now that would be good right about now.

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[brigid.livejournal.com]

i think ribs are better than bacon

[cosmicserpent.livejournal.com]

Did you know that one of my nicknames is bacon?

[mishak.livejournal.com]

Truth be told, there are times when the meaty wet and tangy pleasures of barbecue ribs surpass even those of a plateful of bacon, but these are usually dependent on the time of day. Bacon is morning food, or lunch food when in a towering BLT. Ribs are best as dinnerfood, not as good alongside eggs and toast. Maybe we could wrap a BBQ rib in several strips of bacon, it'd be like a mummified rib.

[julishka.livejournal.com]

i went to a hunger brunch at redbones. ribs do in fact, go well with eggs! hehe.

[mishak.livejournal.com]

Really! Yow! Were the eggs sunnyside up, scrambled, over easy? Did they have pancakes and hashbrowns? I can't imagine ribs for breakfast but now I think I must try it. Was there BACON?!?

[julishka.livejournal.com]

they were scrambled and token in nature. (i.e., they had to add eggs to their rib plate.) iirc, there were hush puppies, and maybe bacon. definitely some sort of bbq'd sausage. toast/biscuit. i wish the'd do it again. (there was probably some sort of potato product. this was about 6-7 years ago so memory is sketchy.)

i also like having leftover blue ribbon pulled pork w/scrambled eggs. very very tasty.

your mentioning of tater tots has reactivated my need and desire for them. mmmmm.

[nemesis2207.livejournal.com]

Have you read Dreamcatcher from Stephen King? Bacon saved the world!!! :-p

[gobetween.livejournal.com]

Hey! You were Maleficent at Man Ray on Halloween, right? I was the other one. I raise you one Maleficent user icon :)

-erin

[nemesis2207.livejournal.com]

Oh hi!!! How are you? :-) I wonder if we would recognize each other without the makeup, hehehe! ;-)

[pax-industria.livejournal.com]

Hmmm Bacon.. darn now I'm hungry. There is a Diner called the Bel-Air that makes the worlds best Bacon and cheese omeletes.. yum

[tygerwillow.livejournal.com]

in return for the pumpkin soup recipe:

get some of that thick-sliced bacon, like oscar mayer makes
put it on a square-grid rack over a pan and bake it in the oven at 350 for about fifteen minutes
mix together 1 part cayenne pepper to 1 part brown sugar and sprinkle over the bacon
put back in the oven until the sugar has carmelized

yum!

[mishak.livejournal.com]

Woah! A square-grid rack, what's that? Is it to keep the bacon out of the hot poppin puddle of grease that will form under it? This hot n' spicy sweet bacon baking technique is fascinating, I gotta try it. It sounds like you'd end up with Pemmican or jerky or Slim Jim or something. Should you separate the bacon slices, or just bake the slab as a loaf of bacon?

[tygerwillow.livejournal.com]

a square-grid rack is just a wire rack of the sort that you might cool a cake on top of. yes, it lets the grease run off. you actually end up with regular bacon, but it's more on the dry (but good) than slimy side. you separate the bacon slices. :)