Bacon Bandages

Dear Bacon Fans,

These delightful little treasures were given to me as a gift.



Of course, I was naturally intrigued by the "free prize inside!"

And, not surprisingly, it was a puffy bacon sticker! I had to chuckle when I saw that.

Now, of course, the question is: how long do I keep these bandages and not use them?

I am seriously on the fence with this. I am thinking of using half of them. I mean, what is the point of having them if we never use them? They will be horribly useless one day.

If you do a search on the internet, it looks like the unanimous price is about $4.95 for the can. I don't know, I think that's a little much.

Bacon Gumballs

Good Morning Bacon Fans!

One of my friends brought me some gifts that he intended to share at my Bacon Sampling Party the other day. He couldn't make it to the party, so he brought them by last week.

One of them was a tin of Bacon Gumballs. How exciting, I thought! Bacon Gumballs!



So, we eagerly unwrapped the product and opened up the little bit of goodness inside.

Don't these look delicious?



So, of course, you have to smell if first. That's when I became hesitant. It didn't smell at all like bacon!

So, I plopped one in my mouth and well, nearly threw up on the spot. I looked at my friend and his faced was scrunched up in utter distaste as well.

Even after you spit them out, the aftertaste was horrible!

So, we decided that these should be given out to those people that have pissed you off.

With love of course.

So, if you want to order these little tins of Ick, you can get them from here!

ThinkGeek for $3.99
Archie McPhee for $3.50
Amazon for $8.25 (Really??)
Perpetual Kid for $3.49

So, there are some places for you to indulge in your quest of Bacon Gumballs!

Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs

Dear Bacon Fans,

You know, I have heard and read all over the internet about Bacon Wrapped Hot Dogs. And seriously, who wouldn't want to try it?

So, tonight, my friend came over and she brought some hot dogs and we wrapped them up in some of the leftover bacon from the party.

We chose Cajun Bacon and Honey BBQ bacon.

Unfortunately, these two bacons were extremely heavy on the fat side and VERY lean on the meat side. Well, it is the risk when you buy online. It's a shame too because the flavor of the Honey BBQ is really good!

I wrapped the dogs with the bacon and baked them at 350 for about 30 minutes. Overall, if I could have eaten the bacon and the dogs together, I think it would have been heavenly. But, in light of the very fatty bacon I was left with, I took it off. The dogs still had a really good flavor from the bacon.

I think that if you could fry the dogs with the bacon, THAT would be the way to go.

But, when you look at the picture, you know you are going to have to try it.... They actually LOOK really good!

Recipe - Bacon Ranch Dorito Casserole

Dear Bacon Fans,

In my eternal quest to find as many really yummy meals that include bacon, I found this pretty tasty meal courtesy of JD Foods!

Here is the link to their recipe:
Bacon Ranch Dorito Casserole

Here is my version of the same recipe:

Ingredients

1 lb ground beef or sausage or both!
1 (10 oz) can tomatoes - use a flavored can like Fire Roasted
1 (10 oz) can corn, drained (I used a bag of frozen corn. You can never have enough corn!)
3/4 cup Bacon Ranch dressing (I did not have Bacon Ranch, so I used Ranch and added Bacon pieces!)
2 cups nacho cheese flavor Doritos, lightly crushed
2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

2. Brown beef and/or sausage in a skillet.

3. Mix beef, tomatoes, corn and ranch dressing together and put into casserole dish. Top with Doritos and cheese.
4. Bake 20 minutes, uncovered.

Now, for the scrumptious pictures!



Brown the ground beef and season it. I know the recipe doesn't say too, but anytime you don't season ground beef, man does it taste bland!! My favorite thing to season ground beef with is the DL Jardines Steak Seasoning. Pour it on liberally!



I had a bacon tasting party and this was the leftover bacon. I felt like a bowl full of bacon was appropriate to add to this dish!



The last of my homemade bratwurst! I was thinking a lb of hamburger just wasnt' enough!



All three meats placed back into the pan for stirring and heating together.



Stir in a can of diced tomatoes. The great thing with this recipe is you can pick from any of the varieties of diced can tomatoes! I always keep a few cans in my cupboard when they go on sale. I pulled out Fire Roasted.



Recipe calls for 1 can of corn. However, being a farm raised girl from Iowa, I used a whole bag of frozen corn!



Pour in some Ranch! I didn't measure, just kind of globbed it in until it looked good.



After you cook everything, pour it all into a nice round casserole dish and cover with the doritos!



Cover the dorito layer with a nice layer of cheese. Yummmy!! Bake at 350 degrees for about 20 minutes or until the cheese is nice and brown.



Does that not look delicious! It was pretty tasty and teenage boy approved!!