Weekend Cooking: I Love Bacon!
Jayne Rockmill was inspired to do something to help the hungry, so she contacted many chefs and asked them for the favorite bacon recipes. After all, who doesn’t love bacon? The result is I Love Bacon!, a cookbook with over forty recipes that include, you guessed it, bacon. The proceeds from this cookbook go to Food Bank for New York City and Share Our Strength. The first chapter has five recipes to Make Your Own Bacon, which I never really thought of someone doing at home.
Other chapters have recipes for Brunch, Small Bites, Soups, Salads, and Sides, Pasta, Fish, Meat and Desserts. There are one or two color photographs in each chapter. The back contains bios on each of the contributing chefs as well as metric conversions and an index. Some of the recipes are for foods you’ve probably had before, such as New England Baked Beans with Bacon Crust and Cocktail BLTs, while others are more exotic, such as Bacon and Sauerkraut Stew with Cucumber Salad and Pig Candy Ice Cream. I marked several recipes I want to try including Bacon Mac and Cheese, Chocolate-Bacon Cupcakes and Breakfast Pie – since we had company for Thanksgiving, Carl decided to fix the Breakfast Pie one morning. It was super easy and super delicious. Carl had his doubts about adding the eggs without scrambling them, but they came out great – almost like hard boiled eggs.
Breakfast Pie
9 slices bacon
1(9-inch) prepared pie crust, defrosted if necessary
6 large eggs
2cups grated cheddar cheese (8 ounces; preferably white Vermont cheddar)
1 sheet frozen puff pastry, thawed
Preheat the oven to 350ºF. In a medium skillet over medium heat, cook the bacon until crispy, about 10 minutes. Drain and cool on a rack or paper towels. Chop into small pieces. Sprinkle the bacon across the bottom of the pie crust, then break 5 of the eggs over the bacon. Top with the cheese. Moisten the edges of the pastry with water. Place the thawed puff pastry on top, cut it to fit, and press to seal the two crusts together. Cut slits in the top for steam to escape. Mix the remaining eggs in a small bowl with a little water, then brush the top of the pastry with the mixture. Bake until the pastry is golden, the cheese is melted, and the egg is cooked, about 30 minutes. Serve warm.
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That looks awesome! I’m definitely putting this recipe aside so I can try it.
OMG — I may have our New Year’s Day breakfast — we usually have bacon and fried eggs, but I like this this better. I have little puff pastry cups in the freezer — I bet I could adapt this to make individual servings. Hummmm (thinking cap goes on).
anything that has bacon in it has to be good!
Gosh, I love bacon…
This is Kathys mother-in-law. Not very good at this so bear with me. Kathy has been in Dothan since the 23rd with her mother. Her dad is seriously ill..She thinks so much of all of you..Keep her and her family in your prayers…..
Chocolate-Bacon Cupcakes
a step too far for me!
Rocketboy would–quite literally–pass out if he saw this. He loves bacon that much. lol
Looks yummy!!! I love pie! Hope you had a Merry Christmas!!
Oh, I am so sorry about Kathy’s dad, I know she was just there a few weeks ago. This has been an incredibly difficult year, I’m sending prayers to the entire family. When you talk to Kathy, please tell her that I’m thinking of her.
When I seen this post title come through my reader I thought it was a confession not a book title….LOL! Now I see it is both! I really do not do a lot with bacon although some of the items mentioned here sounds yummy.
**Kathy thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Hugs to you!
Kathy, I hope your Christmas was wonderful.
The Breakfast Pie looks and sounds delicious, even though I hardly ever eat bacon! I would never have thought to try making my own bacon, either.
I will try Weekend Cooking one of these weekends!
I so love bacon…it should be it’s own food group!!
My husband would love this book! And that breakfast pie looks amazing!
Stealing a moment away from the holiday bustle to say … YUM!
I love bacon so this one will have to be snuck into our kitchen soon.
Can Carl teach mine a thing or two about cooking.. PLEASE
Kathy, Love to you and your family. And thank you for the bacon recipes; you are definitely to blame if my husband goes on an all-bacon diet
xoxo
I know a few friends who would love this bacon book. I’ve linked to you in my latest post about my holiday baking, which I did not for some reason connect to Weekend Cooking but you should check it out anyway.
My husband loves bacon, and for Christmas this year, I got him some bacon mayo and some bacon pop-corn. He loved it and would probably love this book as well, so it’s going on the list! Thanks, Kathy!!
Well if this statement isn’t true of my boyfriend and I, then I don’t know what is! I think I better look into getting this cookbook!
Oh my gosh does that ever look good! We are huge bacon fans here so we may need to get ourselves a copy of that book.
Bacon is my favorite food. Period.
Kathy — Sorry to hear about your dad. You are in our prayers.
I don’t eat Bacon, but I think my Husband would definitely love this
I have to have this book. How can you not love bacon?
I just love bacon!
That pie sounds yummy! I love anything with bacon so I’d be in heaven.
Carl’s rendition of the egg/bacon pie looks fantastic (I like your dishes, too!)
I can vouch for the chocolate/bacon combo in cupcakes — sounds crazy, but it’s so good …
This is a very “dangerous” cookbook for a bacon lover like myself!
i am in love with bacon and this cookbook sounds heavenly! as for carl’s efforts with the bacon pie–looks delish! wish my husband would try his hand in the kitchen on something beyond toast.