Hormel recently sent me a case of their new Black Label Cob Smoked bacon to try out. So what’s cob smoked bacon you ask? It apparently dates way back to the days of the settlers, when farmers would harvest corn, dry it out and then build slow-burning fires with the cobs in smokehouses where they’d then hang freshly cured pigs.
For a while now I’ve wanted to try making my own corn tortilla chips, and … CONTINUE READING »
I keep thinking that one day I’ll get sick of eating so much bacon, but amazingly it still hasn’t happened. In fact, as time goes by I only seem to be growing more and more fond of it as I keep incorporating it into more of my meals, which with how much I already eat doesn’t even seem like it should be possible.
Recently I came up with an idea to make some grilled cheese … CONTINUE READING »
If I had been alive back in the1960s or 1970s I feel like I could have been great friends with Elvis, not because I’m a talented musician or into things like karate and horses like he was though, but because like Elvis, I love gorging myself on ridiculously unhealthy things like peanut butter, bacon and banana sandwiches. In fact, Elvis ate those sandwiches so often that they’ve commonly been referred to using his name ever … CONTINUE READING »
A while back I made some Doritos Crusted Chicken Strips. Then, back at the end of March I made a Deep Fried Doritos Breaded Burger, which was absolutely amazing. Just when I thought I’d run out of things to bread with Doritos though I was staring at a package of bacon that Hormel sent me when I thought to myself “You know what, why not bread some of this bacon with Doritos!?”
So, … CONTINUE READING »
You know what goes great with pig? Even more pig! That’s why when Hormel recently sent me one of their Cure 81 hams I decided to do the only logical thing I could think of – I grabbed a package of their Black Label Brown Sugar Thick Cut Bacon, wove it together and wrapped it around the ham!
I mean, if you’re already making a ham you might as well put as much of … CONTINUE READING »