BBQ woo

Eau de Barbecue, a tasty new fragrance for men.

Although...actually standing in front of a grill for a few hours would be a much more effective way to seduce a cute carnivore. Just sayin'.

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better than a bunny?

When pigs fly!

(nothing like bacon in your Easter basket!)

the pie that won the internet

Macaroni and cheese and deep fried mac'n'cheese ball pie, with a bacon lattice top - a tribute to Paula Deen for Pi Day, 2011.

I'm speechless.


Recipe from Desserts for Breakfast, a lovely blog of many yummy things.

bacon-y fresh

(Comes in pickle and cupcake flavors, too!)

You're

If I must

I suppose I'd be completely remiss at bacon blogging if I didn't post the following video.



However, there are two things that seem to be somewhat of a problem for me.

#1 - "meat glue"

#2 - The head. It's still attached. I know that Icelanders are all about food with a face, and oftentimes dining upon the face itself, but...No. Just no.

chauvinist cuppa

I don't know why bacon and other tasty meats are considered "man food" or why sipping a cup of something warm and comforting is thought to be a "girl thing" but here both concepts are anyway, mashed together into something I expect would be completely unpalatable.

Also? imitation bacon bits do not equal bacon. Ever.

gettin' jiggly with it

Bacon & (gummi) egg
jello shot.





And, hey! I happen to know a guy who makes bacon vodka!

to top it all off

Bacon Day was a great success, despite my not having three whole meals. A couple slices for breakfast, a few on a late lunch BLT and I found I wasn't hungry for supper.

That just meant there was more room for dessert.

(& yes, that's brown sugar cinnamon pig candy with chopped nuts on ice cream...and it was good.)

Extra long bike ride tomorrow. Oink.

Celebrate!

You might not be aware of this but the Saturday before Labor Day is perhaps the most underappreciated holiday of the entire year...International Bacon Day!

So in honor of this very special day (and of all the delicious hogs who die to give us this very special meat) I've decided to have bacon with every meal, maybe even dessert.

For breakfast, I'm having a large coffee and a bacon cheese wrap from Dunkin'. I'll keep you updated.

What bacony delights do you have planned for your day?

And as requested, here's the link to my famous pig candy post. I might use it as a topping for vanilla bean ice cream today.

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better than octodogs

Since everyone and their (Say)Uncle has sent me this , I thought I'd pass it on. (I had to be reassured that they weren't real turtles before I'd click the link. )

'shrooms

Back in March, one of my Facebook friends sent me a link to this video:



Naturally, it was something of a revelation. Mushroom umami! Pseudobacon! I've been wanting to try this technique ever since, but the price of shiitakes at the grocery store was a bit prohibitive.

Then I realized, hey! I could grow my own mushrooms, right? I was up for a little experiment. So off I went aGoogle-ing to research shiitake kits and discovered that mushrooms grown on logs are far superior in taste to those grown on those sawdust blocks. A bit more hunting and I found this place. I ordered myself a kit, envisioning a cute little log I could keep on my countertop in a porcelain saucer while I patiently waited for the little shroomies to sprout. Instead I got this...

It looks like a turd.

I'll keep you updated.

fingerlickin'

I love nailpolish. & I love bacon. So imagine my excitement when I found this...

(via The Daily Nail, which is definitely getting bookmarked.)

piggy paddle

come on, admit it.

It really is the best part.

PBUH

Clearly not my best work, but hey!
It's "Everybody Draw Mohamed Day!"

BONUS! Alan is making a list of Mohameds! Add yours today!

ok, I'll byte*

Bacon tots, an idea that turned into a culinary wonder - proof that sometimes kitchen experiments don't end in grease fires and clouds of billowing smoke.

(* since everyone else is linking to it, I suppose I will too.)

Multitasking

My #GBC friend Ry Jones just shared a link about how to make bacon even less healthy! Just add gunpowder and lead!




Anyone have a spare machine gun laying around? That'd be some amazing aromatherapy.

heaven

Three words: chocolate bacon cheesecake.

Being sponsored by an award winning brewery doesn't hurt either.

linkd

Some of the best things about being a blogger are the links your readers will send to you. I can always tell when a topic or news item has gone viral because I'll get a bunch of emails about it over a number of days. Being supplied with easy blogfodder is great, but it's also very interesting to discover what else my readers are reading. (I must say that I'm appalled & telling your mothers!) Like when the makers of BaconSalt came out with that bacon-flavored lube - its actual existence is still one of those things I decided that I'd rather not verify (librarian curiosity be damned) but man...when it hit the 'net, it went everywhere and in about two days I had an inbox full of emails about it.

The most recent example of this phenomenon is this photo of a ninja librarian via Hawtness, (be warned, some images NSFW-ish, I think.):

Finally! My nemesis, revealed!