My eminently tasteful wife picked me up a Waring waffle iron for my birthday a few weeks ago. Since that time I’ve been on a bit of a waffle bender trying to get the recipe right, marrying the perfect amounts of crunchy outside with light and fluffy inside. This morning my face found the philosopher’s [...]
Tag Archives: bacon
Chocolate Bacon Stout Cupcake Recipe
The weather in Chicago has continued it’s schizophrenic pageantry of bullshit pulling us back from the premature summer of barbecues and late evening sunsets of last week into the mid-spring deluge of cold winds and water that seem to persist with a frequency that could have made Fred Rogers slip into a barbiturate crazed murdering [...]
Posted in Beer, Instructional, Recipes, Review Also tagged butter, Buttermilk, Chicago, Cupcakes, Evil Twin, Lard, Mikeller, Soft DK Stout, West Lakeview Liquors 1 Comment
Caffeinated Maple-Bacon Lollipops!
Maybe these will help me deal with the day side of my fucking insomnia. We invented the Maple Bacon Lollipop, and now we’ve improved it: we’ve made it the bacon-y equivalent of an energy drink, adding two cups worth of caffeine to the already time-tested wonder of organic, sustainably farmed bacon and delicious Vermont maple [...]
Posted in Grilling Also tagged caffeinated maple-bacon lollypops, insomnia, lollyphile.com 1 Comment
Don’t Waste That Bacon Fat, Make Some Bourbon
Bacon, bacon, bacon, blah, blah, blah. Blirrr, blam, blatz. Farb, harr, flim, flim, flim. Bacon, bacon… Oh, what’s this? Bourbon? Cookies? The New York Times of all places has a recipe for a bacon infused Old Fashion. Here’s a few other ideas on how to use that delicious porky effluvia.
Baconfest Chicago, Spring 2010
I’m kind of getting bored with this fad of bacon-everythings, though I try to not let this cloud my interest in one of the most beautiful parts of that amazing magical beast, the pig. In fact, I’m sitting down to a delicious bacon and sunny-side up egg breakfast as I write this. So Chicago is [...]
Posted in Event, Grilling Also tagged Bacon shoes, Baconfest Chicago, Geekologie, Publican 2 Comments