EVERYONE LOVES BACON!!!

Just a quickie to let you all know I am still alive and cookin’!! Sorry it’s been so long since my last post, it’s getting better around the kitchen though!! Also, planning a wedding, well that’s another story for another time…I did however find this great club for bacon lovers, it’s a bacon of the month club, and I think you all should join if you got a little extra stimulus money laying around, if not put it on your Christmas list now before you forget about it!! here’s the link enjoy and eat more bacon!! http://www.gratefulpalate.com/?p=Category_11

obiter dictum: Ode To Bacon!!

This is for Bacon, The king of all meat!!
It’s flavor succulent, smokey, and sweet.
If you’re not familiar with this meat so Devinne,
It comes from our friend the pig, otherwise known as swine.
Bacon really can’t be beat,
Vegetarians, go ahead give in and indulge in this Superior meat.

Eat Lot’s of bacon and never mind the fat,

’cause Granny always said “that’s where it’s at”

and when I’m dead and down in my grave,

I’ll be damned if it won’t be bacon I still crave!

My love for bacon it’s real and true, really man I ain’t fakin’

so, take this to heart and please give me another pound of that god damned BACON!!

RECIPE: The revenge of General TSO aka little blast from the past!!

So, back in the day and still I love to experiment with the deep fryer….Myself and The Doormouse had talked about general Tso’s bacon, and he had dropped a challenge for me to come up with a recipe and way to batter and deep fry bacon, well here’s what I came up with..

1lb thick sliced bacon (14/18 is a good thickness)
1/4 cup rice flour
1 cup all purpose flour
1cup club soda
1tbsp sesame oil
1 1/2 tbsp black sesame seeds
1 tsp kosher salt
crushed red pepper flakes to taste
So, cook off your bacon but don’t cook the hell out of it leave it a little soft and flexible it has to go into the deep fryer remember our friend the deep fryer?
after the bacon is cooked, let is drain on some paper towels, while mixing the A/P flour, club soda(add this in 1/3rds add until you get a thin paste consistancy),sesame oil, salt, sesame seeds, and crushed red peppers (add alot of these and give this dish some balls) now take your drained bacon put it in a sealed container and add the rice flour and shake the hell out of it to lightly coat the bacon(it helps the batter stick) the get your deep fryer up to a smooth 375 degrees dip your bacon in the batter a gently place it in the fryer for about 1 to 1 1/2 min. or until batter is golden brown….
Now I thought battered bacon would be a little over kill, but hell no!! it’s damn good just don’t tell your cardiologist about this recipe….The irony of this all is this, General Tso, she was a vegiterian!!