This bit of bacon’y goodness was brought to my attention today and, as with most things bacon related, it impressed me enough to pass it along… and secretly file it away for future use… like Sunday morning breakfast.
It’s from a book called This is Why You’re Fat… which somehow seems appropriate.
(via Pharyngula)
I’ve seen some pretty awesome bacon recipes before and some awesome things done with bacon and even some awesome bacon art, but I just saw a recipe posted by a Facebook friend (thanks, Neece!) and it has absolutely got to be the most awesome edible thing ever done with bacon.
Think I’m kidding? I don’t kid when it comes to bacon.
I present… with all due glorious fanfare… Chicken Fried Bacon …with gravy!
Yes. You read that right.
This is bacon, covered in seasoned flour, dredged in an egg wash (which includes cream), rolled in crackers… and fried. Then it’s dipped in a gravy that’s made with butter, cream, and chicken broth (and some spices). So let’s see… that’s bacon, egg, cream, butter, more cream, and chicken broth. Oh… and fried in oil.
I’m having a cholesterol-gasm just thinking about it (that’s a good thing, in case you’re wondering).
Okay, so it’s not like I (and the enlightened contingent of humanity) don’t know that bacon isn’t the world’s most awesome meat, but until today, even I didn’t fully comprehend the heights of awesomeness that bacon could reach.
Now I know.
Behold, the bacon lance… a torch made of bacon that burns so hot it can cut through a steel pan. Yes, you read that correctly. It’s a cutting torch… made of bacon.
Ummm… wow. You can watch the video below (or at the link above) of the bacon lance’s construction.
My favorite quote: “It turns out that ordinary American bacon does not have the structural integrity that’s necessary for this applicaiton so I’m using an engineering grade of bacon which is known as prosciutto.”
“Engineering grade”… R0XX0R!
Sadly, at the end of the article, there’s a warning which says, “Theodore Gray is trained in lab safety. Don’t try this at home.”
So much for my weekend plans.
People who know me well know that my favorite movie of all time is The Princess Bride. Ever since college, it’s been at the top of my list and I think I’ve seen it well over 30 times, though I lost count a long time ago.
Whenever I had a bad day, I’d pop that movie in the VCR. If I was extra lucky, a good friend who also loved the movie would come over, too, and the two of us would sit there watching it and talking along with almost every single word of dialog. To anyone else, it would have been annoying beyond compare, but to the two of us, it was bliss. By the end of the movie, the bad day had been forgotten and the sunlit world of happy endings had taken over.
I’ve always had a knack for remembering lines from movies, songs, or scripts, something that came in handy during my participation in high school plays, musicals, and barbershop quartets. It’s also something that is a source of aggravation…either for me or for someone else who gets a movie quote wrong while I’m around.
“No. She didn’t say ‘like that.’ She said, ‘I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.'”
Believe me, if you’re not surrounded by friends who really like you (or by happy drunk people), that kind of thing gets eye rolls of derision.
I’ve learned (mostly) to keep it in check unless I’m just teasing a friend… or my boss. The only time it’s really tough to do is when someone screws up dialogue from a favorite movie; specifically The Princess Bride.
For instance…
Recently, my father-in-law was visiting (which is good, since I like my in-laws). He’s usually sleeping when I go to work, so I don’t get to see him in the mornings, but this particular morning, I was taking it easy and left the house later than usual, so he was up. As I was saying goodbye and was walking out the door, he said (in a Jewish Miracle Max voice), “Good luck stormin’ da castle!”
I smiled. I chuckled. I closed the door behind me. I got in my car. I started the engine. I pulled out of the driveway. I took a deep breath.
“It’s ‘HAVE FUN stormin’ da castle!'”
And that is how my knack for remembering movie dialogue creates aggravation for me.
But family harmony was preserved… which, like bacon, is a good thing.
Bacon makes everything better… except cholesterol and blood pressure. Overlooking that (negligible) downside for the time being, what do you get when you mix 2 pounds of thick-cut bacon, 2 pounds of Italian sausage, and some barbecue sauce? You get the Bacon Explosion… bacon and sausage wrapped up and barbecued for an artery-clogging feast fit for a 500-pound king.
Now just serve this other recipe as a side dish, season it all with a few shakes of Lipitor, and you’ve got yourself a party!
When it comes right down to it, you can’t beat the pig for providing humanity with the largest variety of indisputably succulent meat. I mean, seriously.
And bacon is, of course, the supreme meat.
