Pimento Cheese with Bacon

Since I was home by my self last weekend I decided to make a half-recipe, I knew I would eat the whole thing regardless of if I made a half recipe or the whole thing!  I had 2-year-aged Grafton cheddar, Hellman’s mayo, a jar of organic roasted red peppers, a good olive oil from Chile, … Continued

Hangtown Fry

My first venture into the shellfish arena of bacon book recipes. I love oysters in any form so I figured, hard to go wrong with this. I got 5 freshly shucked oysters from our local wonderful seafood market, Monahan’s. The oysters were from Cape Cod, and I think Mike Monahan said they were called Wiona … Continued

Five-State Bacon Salad

This is not a bacon book recipe, but Fred Sauceman, who is a professor at East Tennessee State University (and is in the Bacon book, in the section about Chocolate Gravy), recently made this dish: It’s a salad using these five artisanal bacons from the Bacon book, from five different states: Benton’s (Tennessee), Broadbent (Kentucky), … Continued