Be Excellent To Each Other

I've left facebook, and have nowhere else to post about bacon. When I die, it will be because of too much bacon. Lovely, smokey, pork bacon, from oinky pigs. Yummo.

Thread inspired by recent tweet of Gaywood's about bacon caramel. Which I want. Also there was recently the bacon weave thing on bacon today recently.

http://bacontoday.com/

So how's your bacon life going, friends? I haven't had any since Saturday, but tonight I've got a Sainsbury's Leek and Bacon pasta bake for snackage, and the bacon in that sets off the leek nicely. I also recommend their bacon and leek quiche, yet would strangely not contemplate making myself a bacon and leek supper in and of itself. Even though I steam my leeks and they taste leaking gorgeous.

You should check out the rest of the bacon related treats Doc G has posted about.

mmmm maybe http://www.fscked.co.uk/index.php/category/food/ that works?

He's a meat fiend snigger

I'd not actually looked beyond the bacon caramel tweet, as it reminded me I couldn't keep people updated with bacon news now I'd nukled my facebook.

I'll have a read, but BeeX needs its' own bacon repository and debating zone, and this is it.

There'll be a barbecue at my place this summer as well, and you must all bring meat. The nice scandanavian girl upstairs is a veggie, we must make her cry.

I travelled to Essex this weekend to visit the folks and catch up with some old friends.

This morning, my mum got up at 6:30 especially to make me some bacon sandwiches (with brown sauce) to eat on the train journey back to Cambs.

Mother is best.

What sort of bacon?

I'm glad your Mum knows to use the correct sauce, otherwise you would have had a shit childhood.

Some people put red sauce on their bacons, and should be shunned like a menstruating woman.

The bacon was MYSTERY BACON. It tasted unsmoked.

I believe there is a right enshrined in English law that, should you see someone eating a bacon sandwich defiled with tomato ketchup, "...yea shall swippe thee bunne from hif graspe onto the soile and stabbe stabbe stabbe".

You do me a disservice. I have an entire Bacon section:

http://www.fscked.co.uk/index.php/category/food/bacon/

There should be no sauce on a bacon sandwich. The bacon is king. Just a liberal smearing of butter.

Butter? You really are weird. Bacon's greasy enough without adding butter to the mix.

Liberals are weird, myp.
Screw your fried pigs anyway, bring me the scandinavian girl!

Butter is essential. Buttential.

You and your lunatic crusade against all things hydrogenated. I'm getting a restraining order forbidding you from being in food threads that I'm in.

I feel guilty talking about her as I've barely met her, but she's into rock climbing and seems to subsist on beans and the like, as they all do. Doesn't strike me as the initation bacon type. Nevertheless the charming girls upstairs are up for a barbecue in our communal garden at some point and I fancy hosing some sort of Solar power afternoon of pleasantry in my garden with local/travelling bezzies this summer. Got to keep numbers neighbourly, but people might well be able to find out about the scandanavian girl for themselves. As I say, I've no clue about her really.

[clarkson]Also butter - fine if you like that sort of thing, but plain bread or buttered toast with a non-excessive dose of brown together with smoked outdoor reared organic bacon is the fucking business. In bacon more than any other food, you can tste the improvement in the organic outdoor right-on variety. Bacon is a better advert for conscientious farming than and veggie bollocks ever could be.[/clarkson]

My Bacon and Leek pasta bake is ready

That is a Freudian, AICMFP.

If I'd any intent towards her I'd know her a bit better than I do by now - she's been living upstairs for two months and I've genuinely run out of sugar about three times since she moved in.

Fair play to her though she's not an unattractive lass, I just prefer my wife, who has the added bonus of me not having to walk all the way upstairs to grope, she's only in the next room.

Ever since Vic & Bob pointed out the beercan/bacon similarity, I can't help but think of both when the other is brought up. Great.

Happens to me as well. No complaints here either.

That only works if your voice is all Northern.

Or South African.

All meat is imrpoved by wrapping it in bacon. Perhaps with bbq sauce.

Stop making me hungrier!

This weekend I was left unattended and completely respected my wife to be's trust by going out and getting mortally shanted on expensive forrin lager.

I woke up on Saturday with a face melting hangover and decided the only way to relieve the pain would be with baconny goodness.

10 rashers of meaty goodness, two fried egg, white bread and a liberal dose of HP. Beautiful. At the time.

Did fuck all to help my hangover. I was subsequently sofa bound for six hours due to the sheer volume of alcohol sloshing around inside me, not being soaked up the fatty goodness of my breakfast of heroes.

I'll be the one laughing* when you're dead of congealed grease arteries (medical term).






* May not actually be laughing. Much.

TEN RASHERS?! Fucking hell.

I had bacon three times at the weekend - bacon baguette with chutney for lunch both days (tomato and garlic Saturday, tomato lime and chilli Sunday), and buttered peas and bacon as an accompaniment to roast corn-fed organic free-range chicken at tea on Sunday. Unsmoked, some nice dry cure or other.

Best Mother's day meal ever - chicken roasted with pork sausages, lemon, garlic, thyme and red onions, tatties done with goose fat, real butter on the baconated peas, honey roasted carrots and parsnips, gravy made with chicken juice. Lacking only bacon on the chicken, and wrapped around the sausages.

All followed by home-made sticky toffee pudding (made with real butter), toffee sauce (made with double cream and possibly more real butter) and fair trade organic ice cream.

Monday morning's rectal explosion caused by all that fat was less desirable, but no less impressive.

You are Paul Carr AICMFP, you bellend!

Depends on my mood, but I generally prefer good quality ketchup to brown sauce with bacon. I find brown sauce too astringent; fruity brown sauce is a bit better, but there still isn't enough umame in the flavour to compliment the really deep salty flavour of good smoked bacon.

If I'm not having a full English and I go down the sarnie route. I always have two smoked bacon barmcakes. No butter but melted MATURE cheddar cheese, one with Heinz Tomato Ketchup and one with HP Sauce. Oh yeah, with eggs on too.

I support this idea but not for breakfast. Strong cheese in the morning just seems wrong somehow.

Brown sauce is what happens when you try to make BBQ sauce and forget to add in the nice parts. It is edible, but only just. It's just a bit dull, really.

Clearly you are not French.

Asda stock a nice brown sauce which is more of a chutney in a bottle really.

You might want to try a bit of dijon or english mustard on the side to dip the sandwich in too. Just saying like.

Haha, yes indeed.

I have not tried this. I will try it.

There is truth here, although I put dijon mustard on just about anything so I am not a good guide in these matters.

I'm not keen on it either, red sauce or sweet chilli on mine. Cheese is good too.

In honour of this thread I had some bacon sarnies for lunch.

*slapping of sauce bottle bottom applause*

Well, I am meant to be going out for a curry tonight, but I find I'm now craving sweet, salty bacon!

Had some lovely bacon sarnies myself on Sunday morning, topped with brown sauce. My two little ratties gave me sorrowfull looks until I gave them a bit each, the little sods. So it's not just us humans that recognise the rightness of bacon.

I wasn't sure why I opted for a bacon roll this morning instead of the full fry-up. But now I know - subconsciously I'd taken this thread in yesterday and it repeated on me this morning, in a good way.

Zio - I think you just invented bacon curry in my head.

As for the ten rashers - that's safe and fine, because I just burn off all the calories by grinning smugly so much afterwards.

And mature cheddar is not strong cheese.

Yum. Bacon.



Then added to pasta and jiggled in a colander with an unhealthy dose of mature cheddar. I didn't get chance to take a picture of the result, though, on account of it being eaten mercilessly.

Fry that shit up!

Pfff. I mock your inferior taste buds. HP perfected brown sauce over a hundred years ago. The good things stay the same.

I have ordered bacon salt! http://www.crazy4flavour.co.uk/

Mmmm bacon.

Tonight I have had: Mashed tattyo's with cheese, tomatoes and bacon all popped into a big overnproof dish and baked for a furthur 5 mins so the cheese browns and the tommy's cook nicely.

Tomorrow: Bacon


/edit however we might well discuss other meat products in here as well, or at least pork, which is raw bacon.

Sausages are an interesting one. We all know that good healthy country butcher locally sourced organic 90% pork sausages with all the nicest, freshes herbs and spices blended in are still mainly arseholes, brains and connective tissues. Even Sainsbury's venison sausages are just mashed up connective tissue of a deer. And I love it when pulse nazis go on about the stuff that's in a sausage. Because we're being green. What we omnivores have done is take all the 'waste' parts of a harvested bacon tree and turned them into something gorgeous and lovely and appealing - a nice big Lincolnshire Sausage, or inferior-but-still-nice rival. So that's my stance... it used to be arseholes, but now it's a sausage, which is a feat on a par with taking a small gangrenous Puerto Rican street urchin and changing him into Summer Glau. Sausages are a fucking miracle. Still not as good as bacon though.

Bacon's fat sister, if you will.

oh, and anyone who has red sauce with sausages wants stabbing in the throat. You are the worst kind of scum. Real tomatos in various states of disrepair is fine, though.

May as well post this in here.

On Friday it was my birthday, and Sunday was Mothers Day. So in our house we decided to have a bit of an extended food based celebration.

Friday Evening was mixed grill: Lamb Chops, Pork Chops and Steak (with chips, peas and raw tomato)

Sunday Morning (was supposed to be Saturday morning but we were too busy) was a Cooked Breakfast: Sausages, Bacon, Burgers, Baked Beans, Scrambled Eggs, Mushrooms, Toast and Bread.

Monday main meal (was supposed to be Sunday but we were so full up from breakfast and also quite busy in the afternoon): Roast Beef, Roast Potatoes, New Potatoes, Cabbage, Sprouts, Cauliflower, Broccoli, Carrots, Yorkshire Puddings, Croquet Potatoes, Gravy, Garden Peas. With a Triffle for pudding (Raspberry Jelly with Fruit Cocktail in, Black Currant Jelly with Sponge in, Custard, Whipped Double Cream, Extra Thick Squirty Cream, 100s and 1000s.

I think I put on a stone between Saturday and Monday!

Malc

In pure coincidence (my girlfriend was making it when I got home, having decided not to do any of the other non-bacon things she'd suggested), bacon pasta for tea last night! Hoorah!

Curry got cancelled last night in favour of pasta with lovely bacon.

Shin: My previous two girlfriends were both vegetarians (although the pregnant one got cravings for ham, so indulged in the odd ham roll every now and then ), consequently I have developed a great deal of respect for omnivorous ladies!

GY: Mmmmm.... sausages.

In terms of sauce application, I have strict rules.

Sausages: brown sauce.
Rashers of bacon: Ketchup OR brown sauce.
Sausage or bacon sandwiches/butties: brown sauce OR BBQ sauce.

It's the only way.

Chutneys and pickles with sausages, in my book. Choice depending on what sort of sausage it is, of course.

A vegetarian friend of ours once found out she was pregnant because, at a party, she had to have sausage rolls. She stuffed down a bucketful, figured it was a craving and took the test. Shocker, nearly 3 months in

My father-in-law makes bacon-infused bourbon.