http://topicfire.com/Bacon 2010-03-11T18:42:04+00:00 text/html 2010-03-10T23:00:44+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/wendys-bacon-blue-is-it-the-thing-to-do/ <a href="http://bacontoday.com/wendys-bacon-blue-is-it-the-thing-to-do/"><img src="http://bacontoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bacon-blue.jpg" /></a><br />Wendy&#8217;s has introduced a new bacon burger. This time it&#8217;s the Bacon &#38; Blue. Our question to you is &#8212; what do you think? We want your reviews! The basic details are: North American beef that&#8217;s never frozen Blue cheese crumbles Thick cut applewood smoked bacon Sauteed onions Steakhouse sauce We&#8217;ll be doing a review of this... text/html 2010-03-04T16:01:29+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/the-bacon-book-a-book-about-bacon/ <a href="http://bacontoday.com/the-bacon-book-a-book-about-bacon/"><img src="http://bacontoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/Cookbook-Cover-Rev1-194x300.jpg" /></a><br />Not too long ago, a reader came to us with the idea that we should write a bacon book. You know, a book about bacon. We tossed around a few ideas that all centered around bacon and books and how to combine them into a book about bacon but we... text/html 2010-03-02T13:41:39+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/bacon-cheese-spread-the-treat-that-might-have-been/ <a href="http://bacontoday.com/bacon-cheese-spread-the-treat-that-might-have-been/"><img src="http://bacontoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/bacon-cheese-snack-spread.jpg" /></a><br />I was helping my grandfather clean out his refrigerator this weekend. Out with the old, in with the new. We tossed out the expired salad dressings, the old mustard, and some questionable jams &#38; jellies. Then I spotted something that had one of the world&#8217;s most wonderful words emblazoned upon it&#8217;s label... text/html 2010-02-20T21:51:34+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/are-eggs-the-new-bacon/ <a href="http://bacontoday.com/are-eggs-the-new-bacon/"><img src="http://bacontoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/egg-basket.jpg" /></a><br />&#8220;Are eggs the new bacon?&#8221; That was the question posed by Allison Perlik, Senior Editor of Restaurants &#38; Institutions (R &#38; I) way back on November 25, 2009. Why do we bring you this information months later you ask? Simple &#8212; because bacon lovers around the globe should let Allison know... text/html 2010-02-14T21:00:17+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/the-people-of-canada-choose-bacon-over-sex/ <a href="http://bacontoday.com/the-people-of-canada-choose-bacon-over-sex/"><img src="http://bacontoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bar-graph.jpg" /></a><br />The people of Canada sure love their bacon. In a recent survey conducted by Maple Leaf Foods, 43% of the respondents said they would rather have bacon than sex. Are you surprised? If you&#8217;re a daily reader of Bacon Today the answer is probably no. In fact, you&#8217;re probably asking... text/html 2010-02-14T08:01:49+00:00 http://www.mrbaconpants.com/ http://www.mrbaconpants.com/feta-cheese-and-bacon-stuffed-chicken-breasts/ <a href="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/feta-cheese-and-bacon-stuffed-chicken-breasts/"><img src="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/chicken.jpg" /></a><br />This week&#8217;s weekend cooking is &#8220;Feta Cheese and Bacon Stuffed Chicken Breasts&#8221;. Beth and I both thought that the recipe was great. I just added an extra strip of bacon to each chicken breast. Beth asked me, &#8220;Why do you always have to add more bacon&#8221;? I must of gave... text/html 2010-02-04T02:35:13+00:00 http://www.royalbaconsociety.com/ http://www.royalbaconsociety.com/blog/bacon-gifts/part-nut-part-chip-all-bacon-flavored/ <a href="http://www.royalbaconsociety.com/blog/bacon-gifts/part-nut-part-chip-all-bacon-flavored/"><img src="http://www.royalbaconsociety.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/nutterz.jpg" /></a><br />I don&#8217;t know what it is, but lately I&#8217;ve received a number of product offers from people making innovative, bacon-flavored snacks. Anyone who&#8217;s known me any length of time will tell you that I love free stuff. In fact, you probably don&#8217;t want to accidentally leave a cool t-shirt, jacket... text/html 2010-02-02T04:36:26+00:00 http://www.mrbaconpants.com/ http://www.mrbaconpants.com/animal-collective-summertime-clothes/ <a href="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/animal-collective-summertime-clothes/"><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/GxhaRgJUMl8/default.jpg" /></a><br />This week&#8217;s Music Monday band is Animal Collective (AnCo) with Summertime Clothes. I am not sure which is stranger this music video or Animal Collective in General. The album this song is from, &#8216;Merriweather Post Pavilion&#8217;, is the first AnCo album I was able to listen to and enjoy from... text/html 2010-01-29T16:01:35+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/in-a-word-chocobacon/ <a href="http://bacontoday.com/in-a-word-chocobacon/"><img src="http://bacontoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/ikeaman1-300x225.jpg" /></a><br />To an American, there&#8217;s little else more exotic than Europeans. They live far away across a big pool of water. They speak in interesting accents that make them sound educated and worldly wise. And quite often, they do it all with pictures. Americans tend to be very wordy. We like to... text/html 2010-01-27T00:03:57+00:00 http://www.mrbaconpants.com/ http://www.mrbaconpants.com/3rd-annual-blue-ribbon-bacon-festival/ <a href="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/3rd-annual-blue-ribbon-bacon-festival/"><img src="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/odyssey.jpg" /></a><br />After much anticipation, tickets to this year’s Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival will be sold exclusively through an online link located at www.blueribbonbaconfestival.com beginning at high noon on Thursday, February 4th. The event will be held at the Scottish Rite Consistory at 519 Park Street in downtown Des Moines on... text/html 2010-01-26T01:57:05+00:00 http://www.mrbaconpants.com/ http://www.mrbaconpants.com/passion-pit-the-reeling/ <a href="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/passion-pit-the-reeling/"><img src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qVstHPhaJ6M/default.jpg" /></a><br />This week&#8217;s &#8220;Music Monday&#8221; video is Passion Pit with there hit song The Reeling. This isn’t the first time I talked about Passion Pit, last year I wrote a post about their first EP “Chunk of Change”. Well this song (The Reeling) is off their new LP “Manors”. It’s... text/html 2010-01-25T16:01:47+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/creative-bacon-breakfast-help-needed/ <a href="http://bacontoday.com/creative-bacon-breakfast-help-needed/"><img src="http://bacontoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bacone.jpg" /></a><br />Okay, BT Readers, Eugenia P. needs our help and needs it fast. Here&#8217;s the email she wrote&#8230; Hey there &#8211; I work at a pretty well known company in WA and have been tasked to come up with an ingenious breakfast event that does not resemble the standard boring breakfast display... text/html 2010-01-15T16:01:44+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/bacon-survival-skills/ <a href="http://bacontoday.com/bacon-survival-skills/"><img src="http://bacontoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/pbj.jpg" /></a><br />Creativity is abloom in the world of bacon. We know from past experience that having a bag of bacon along with you on a journey can be a good thing. (Mmmm&#8230; In-n-out!) And hiking outdoors is no different. When you&#8217;re exploring the world you can&#8217;t always get by with earthy-crunchy-granola-Al-Gore-ultimate-frisbee food.... text/html 2010-01-15T05:47:26+00:00 http://blog.bacn.com/ http://blog.bacn.com/2010/01/bacon-is-trendy-and-theres-a-press-release-to-prove-it-so-there/ <a href="http://blog.bacn.com/2010/01/bacon-is-trendy-and-theres-a-press-release-to-prove-it-so-there/"><img src="http://foodchannel.com/images/main_logo_2.gif?1263266217" /></a><br />For all you doubters out there who believed that “bacon” was about to jump the shark, had best rethink their naysaying ways.  According to the Food Channel (www.foodchannel.com) “bacon” isn&#8217;t just a trending topic for the year, but for the whole decade.  (That&#8217;s ten years to you and me, kids.) The... text/html 2010-01-14T16:01:55+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/100-awesome-uses-for-bacon/ <a href="http://bacontoday.com/100-awesome-uses-for-bacon/"><img src="http://bacontoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/03-bacon-cinnamon-rolls-tray.jpg" /></a><br />Frequent contributor Mike G. sent us this link to an article about 100 ways to use a strip of bacon. The article is handily presented as a picture grid of each use of the candy of meats with links through  each picture to the blog or website that wrote about... text/html 2010-01-06T01:07:54+00:00 http://blog.bacn.com/ http://blog.bacn.com/2010/01/bacn-acquired-by-baconfreak-com/ <a href="http://blog.bacn.com/2010/01/bacn-acquired-by-baconfreak-com/"><img src="http://blog.bacn.com/images/teambacn.jpg" /></a><br />We&#8217;re excited to announce that we have just finalized the acquisition of Bac&#8217;n by the good folks over at BaconFreak.com. Rocco and his great team at BaconFreak.com will continue to run the site as-is and existing customers will see the same great service you&#8217;ve come to expect from Bac&#8217;n. We launched Bacn.com... text/html 2009-12-25T01:06:00+00:00 http://www.baconunwrapped.com/ http://www.baconunwrapped.com/2009/12/norton-riding-bacon-wave.html <a href="http://www.baconunwrapped.com/2009/12/norton-riding-bacon-wave.html"><img src="http://www.baconunwrapped.com/baconbook.jpg" /></a><br />The folks over at Norton are running a contest in conjunction with the release of their new Online Backup system. They're calling it &quot;Norton Saved My Bacon.&quot;How it works is that you visit nortonsavedmybacon.com, share a data-loss horror story, and the grand prize winner will receive a one year... text/html 2009-12-16T21:00:29+00:00 http://www.mrbaconpants.com/ http://www.mrbaconpants.com/dogfish-head-2009-pork-dinner-recap/ <a href="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/dogfish-head-2009-pork-dinner-recap/"><img src="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/header.jpg" /></a><br />Last weekend I attended the Dogfish Head &#8220;a Tribute to Pork Dinner&#8221; at the brewpub in Rehoboth Beach. Since Dogfish Head happens to be one of my favorite microbreweries I had really high expectations for this event. I would like to report that they blew me away. The food and... text/html 2009-12-12T07:22:00+00:00 http://baconshow.blogspot.com/ http://baconshow.blogspot.com/2009/12/1677-bacon-wrapped-sea-trout-with.html serves 3-41 whole sea trout, 2-2.3kg,
 scaled and guttedsea salt and freshly ground
 black pepper2 slices of lemonfew sprigs each of thyme 
and rosemary10-12 thin streaky bacon
 rashersolive oil, to drizzleFor the Jersey Royals700 grams Jersey Royal potatoes,
 scrubbed and large ones halved or quartered2 tablespoons olive oil, plus extra... text/html 2009-12-10T04:36:41+00:00 http://www.mrbaconpants.com/ http://www.mrbaconpants.com/spicy-candied-bacon-opens-the-door-to-endless-flavor-country/ <a href="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/spicy-candied-bacon-opens-the-door-to-endless-flavor-country/"><img src="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Chili_Powder-300x300.jpg" /></a><br />Our friends at Serious Eats posted a bacon recipe last month that slipped past my radar. Luckily Aaron from I text/html 2009-12-05T07:12:15+00:00 http://blog.bacn.com/ http://blog.bacn.com/2009/12/buying-great-bacon/ <a href="http://blog.bacn.com/2009/12/buying-great-bacon/"><img src="http://blog.bacn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/badbacon.jpg" /></a><br />A few weeks ago while at my local farmer’s market, I had just about finished all my produce shopping when I stopped by the Prather Ranch stall to off-set all those healthy purchases. They’re known for having great meat, and I’m a huge fan of their bacon. Not too smoky,... text/html 2009-11-26T09:06:20+00:00 http://baconbaconbacon.tumblr.com/ http://baconbaconbacon.tumblr.com/post/257574197/thanksgiving-green-beans-with-bacon-isnt-it <a href="http://baconbaconbacon.tumblr.com/post/257574197/thanksgiving-green-beans-with-bacon-isnt-it"><img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktojgszql91qzrafwo1_500.jpg" /></a><br />Thanksgiving Green Beans with Bacon Isn’t it great how you can make any recipe a Thanksgiving recipe just by adding “Thanksgiving” in front?? Recipe from MyRecipes.com text/html 2009-11-23T14:03:26+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/turbaconducken-the-year-in-review/ <a href="http://bacontoday.com/turbaconducken-the-year-in-review/"><img src="http://bacontoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/tbd.jpg" /></a><br />It&#8217;s been one year since we unleashed the Turbaconducken on the world. Tens of thousands of web sites link to our little creation, numerous radio stations and newspapers have interviewed us, and nearly half a million people have shared their love (or disgust) of the Turbaconducken with others. Here&#8217;s a... text/html 2009-11-21T01:51:07+00:00 http://bacontoday.com/ http://bacontoday.com/quote-of-the-month/ &#8220;You worry too much. Eat some bacon&#8230; What? No, I got no idea if it&#8217;ll make you feel better, I just made too much bacon.&#8221; (via) text/html 2009-11-20T01:04:14+00:00 http://www.mrbaconpants.com/ http://www.mrbaconpants.com/every-bacon-lover-needs-jds-bacon-ranch-dip/ <a href="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/every-bacon-lover-needs-jds-bacon-ranch-dip/"><img src="http://www.mrbaconpants.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/baconranch.jpg" /></a><br />Last month sometime Dave sent me a sample of J&#038;D&#8217;s Bacon Ranch Dressing and Dip Mix. He told me that this was one of their best ideas and it tasted amazing. For some reason I took me weeks to finally go to the store and buy the two things I...