My plan was to make some Bacon Garlic Nachos which was pretty simple. It was lined with paper towels to soak up some of the grease and the kitchen was smelling pretty good too with the scent of bacon in the air (I bet you they sell bacon scented candles at the Man-porium).
HISTERA PFEFFERNEUSSE FULL
Suddenly I had a plate full of three packages worth of bacon which is not an altogether terrible problem to have. That was a bit messier but got the job done and the bacon crispy. I still had some bacon that wouldn’t fit onto a tray, so I cooked that on the stovetop in our cast iron skillet. But, it’s a good way to cook lots of bacon at once. I always have to wait longer and spin trays around losing patience while I do it. This is the Alton Brown method and in theory, by the time the oven is preheated, the bacon is done. In any case, I loaded up two sheet pans with bacon and then placed it in a cold oven and turned it on to 400 degrees. I had some strange thought that even though I wasn’t going to make anything big, I would just make a lot of bacon – as if that would impress you. I picked up three packages of bacon and immediately started cooking them. I was back home in five minutes (it really is up the corner). My shopping list was simple: Bacon and Tortilla Chips. I was a little slow at getting to it today and I kept pushing off going to the store until later in the day and when I went, I just went up the street to the Dollar General (a noted purveyor of fine meats). I don’t have to keep up with the Joneses (who are probably making bacon-wrapped waffles in bacon syrup served with bacon beer). I need to stick to the basics and just celebrate. You have to pace yourself over this journey.
HISTERA PFEFFERNEUSSE PLUS
I’ll leave that to others while I prepare for the 200 plus days left of this quest. I just don’t have to put on the biggest celebration for it. Sure I am going to celebrate bacon and I will do so happily. Then I realize that this is a long quest, not a one day thing. You start seeing it pop up on social media and trending and you start questioning how am I going to make my mark out there? I don’t want to let down my fans. When you celebrate something like bacon, you feel you have to come out strong and up your game. It’s easier to celebrate a day like Pepper Pot Day because not too many people know what it is. I always have a tough time on holidays that are bigger and more widely recognized than my usual celebrations. The world knows that men love bacon and they are cashing in on it.
If you have ever checked the “Man” section at a gift store (an awful section of any store that reduces my gender to a group of bourbon drinking, sports watching, bacon eating buffoons), there’s always an area devoted to the love the of bacon.
The world knows this and cheers for bacon at every chance it gets. It’s pretty versatile and it will always make whatever you are eating better (ok, maybe not if you were eating Jell-O or something like that). You can wrap anything in bacon and make it better.
HISTERA PFEFFERNEUSSE CRACKER
Just a plain old Townhouse cracker with a little bit of cheese. But if you really look at what I served – it was essentially a cracker. On Christmas, I served bacon covered crackers that were a big hit. It makes anything it attaches to more tasty as well. Salty, fatty, crispy and oh so flavorful. It’s everything you want in a meat product. There are few foods in the world that are celebrated more than bacon, and rightfully so.
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