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Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Poppers

January 29, 2020

Make Bacon Wrapped Jalapeno Poppers to enjoy some great bar food at home. They’re wonderful to enjoy at parties or while snacking and watching The Big Game!

Spicy jalapenos that are loaded with a hot cheesy filling then wrapped in bacon… snacking perfection!  You’ll love the heat from the pepper, the mellow filling, and the smoky bacon. I bet you won’t be able to resist them.

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Filed Under: Appetizer, Recipes, Starters Tagged With: bacon, bacon wrapped jalapeno popper, jalapeno popper

Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Bagel Breakfast Casserole

November 14, 2019

Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Bagel Breakfast Casserole is a hearty and delicious dish. You’ll really enjoy this simple breakfast because it is simple and can be made in advance. Total yum!

This is sure to feed a hungry crowd that will feed a hungry crowd for breakfast and that doesn’t require you waking before the sun to get it on the table in time. Great for sleep overs or big family get togethers. 

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Filed Under: Breakfast and Brunch, Recipes Tagged With: bacon, bagel, breakfast, breakfast casserole

Bacon Ranch Cheese Ball Bites

November 6, 2019

Bacon Ranch Cheese Ball Bites are a fun appetizer to serve for the holidays and any gathering. You’ll be amazed at how quickly they disappear.

This recipe is part of a wonderful round up of Thanksgiving and Potluck style recipes that will make your holiday entertaining a breeze. Scroll to the bottom for all the great recipes! #blogfriendsgiving

Bacon Ranch Cheese Ball Bites are the perfect appetizer to enjoy at holiday dinners and fun social gatherings. They are bite sized so they will be easy for people to enjoy. Be sure to grab some to enjoy early on, because they are sure to disappear!

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Filed Under: Christmas, Recipes, Starters, Thanksgiving Tagged With: bacon, bacon ranch cheese balls, cheese balls, party food, petzels, ranch

Instant Pot Crack Chicken

January 28, 2018

We are going on our cruise tomorrow!!!!!!!

I am ridiculously excited. I’ve researched the ship and ports we are going to, I’ve joined FB groups to get get tips, and I’ve made lists, and I’ve packed and packed again. And I know I will still forget something! ha!

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Filed Under: Instant Pot, Poultry, Recipes Tagged With: bacon, cheddar cheese, chicken, chicken recipe, crack chicken, cream cheese, dinner recipe, instant pot, Instant Pot Recipe, recipe

Southern Charmer Sliders

May 31, 2017

Behold! The best slider ever!

I know that is a bold statement but I’m pretty sure that you would agree.

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Filed Under: Meat, Recipes Tagged With: bacon, burger, Burger month, fried green tomato, hamburger, pimento cheese, slider

Bacon Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Rolls with Brown Sugar Glaze

February 6, 2017

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We had our first big boo boo with Autumn this weekend. Poor thing!

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Filed Under: Breakfast and Brunch, Recipes Tagged With: bacon, brown sugar glaze, chocolate chips, cinnamon rolls, monkey bread mondays

Cheesy, Bacon, Tomato, and Spinach Strata

October 19, 2016

Cheesy, Bacon, Tomato, and Spinach Strata

I can’t wait for Halloween!!!!!

I picked up a mermaid costume at Target this past weekend for our trick-or-treating. I even grabbed a red wing so when I put it on Autumn called me “Mommy Ariel” over and over again. My life is complete now.

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Filed Under: Breakfast and Brunch, Recipes Tagged With: bacon, breakfast, brunch, cheese, strata

Bacon Feta Guacamole

June 14, 2016

 Bacon Feta Guacamole

Disney World whooped our butts!

We hit 3 of 4 parks and walked just under 23 miles as we walked from attraction to attraction from Saturday afternoon to Monday night. It was so much fun getting to visit Disney for our honeymoon/1 year wedding anniversary celebration.

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Filed Under: Cinco De Mayo, Recipes, Salsa, Sauces, Dips and more Tagged With: bacon, Bacon Feta Guacamole, dip, Feta, guacamole

Bacon and Cheese Buttermilk Waffles with an Apple Compote

October 21, 2015

Bacon and Cheese Buttermilk Waffles with Apple Compote

Happy Back to the Future Day!!

Where’s my hoverboard?!?

I always loved watching the Back to the Future movies. They were so funny and over the top with what the future would hold.

I guess that the closest thing we get to a hoverboard is a segway, I would never survive riding on one of those. I am just happy that I ride a bike now without falling off. Call me old fashion. ha!

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Filed Under: Breakfast and Brunch, Recipes, Waffles Tagged With: apple, bacon, Kerrygold, savory waffle, waffle wednesday, waffles

Bacon, Apple, Brie, and Spinach Sandwich

September 15, 2015

Bacon Apple Brie Spinach Sandwich

Bacon. Apple. Brie. Spinach.

Let’s call it a B.A.B.S. Sandwich!!

Boom. Shakalaka.

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I am head over heels in love with this sandwich.

Salty, crunchy bacon. Check!

Crisp, juicy apples. Check!

Soft, luscious brie. Check!

Fresh, vibrant baby spinach. Check!

All of that on hearty bread that is slathered with a Dijon mayonnaise. Check!

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I don’t often make sandwiches so when I do it is an event. And this is really good. I love B.L.T’s but I was craving something that felt a bit more fall like than summer. I’ll never turn down a beautiful, ripe tomato, but I wanted to change things up for the upcoming season so I swapped them out for apples. I’d just have to enjoy a PSL while eating the sandwich and it would be a perfect fall meal. #basicandlovingit

I swear the uses of bacon, apples, and brie are endless. It’s just one of those combinations that is timeless. Like peanut butter and jelly, but better because you deserve better. You’re an adult. Eat an adult sandwich!!

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I used the Ginger Golds that we picked when we recently went apple picking as they are great eating apples, plus they don’t oxidize and turn brown quickly like a lot of other varieties, so they will taste great and look great in the sandwich.

And of course, bacon is key to this sandwich. We all know that bacon is a versatile ingredient and is easily incorporated into everything from breakfast dishes to burgers to pastas, and, of course, sandwiches. I think that any kind of bacon works but I used Trader Joe’s Apple Smoked Bacon.

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I argue that you need a nice, hearty bread for this sandwich. The bread is just as much a key player in this game as the rest of the ingredients. It is what starts and ends the sandwich. Show it some love.

I recently made one of these sandwiches, stood at my door while eating it, taking in the sheets of rain dump down from the grey clouds above. It definitely made for a better rainy afternoon.

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You’ll want to experience your own B.A.B.S. Sandwich nirvana yourself.

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Bacon, Apple, Brie, and Spinach Sandwich

Makes 2 sandwiches

Ingredients

  • 4 slices of thick, hearty sandwich bread
  • 6 slices of bacon
  • 1/2 apple (I suggest a Ginger Gold), sliced thinly
  • 4 ounces of brie, sliced thinly
  • 1 Cup baby spinach
  • 2 Tablespoons mayonnaise
  • 2 Tablespoons Dijon mustard

Process

  1. Preheat oven to 350. Line baking sheet. Cut the bacon slices in half, horizontally. Bake for 20-25 minutes, or until cooked through. (Time depends on thickness of bacon) Remove and place on paper towels.
  2. Mix to there the mayonnaise and the Dijon mustard.
  3. Spread the mayonnaise mixture on one side of all 4 pieces of bread.
  4. On each sandwich, layer half the spinach a slice of bread, lace 3 piece of bacon on the spinach, then top with slices of brie and apple, then with 3 more pieces of bacon. Top with the remaining slice of bread. Enjoy!!

Filed Under: Meat, Recipes Tagged With: bacon, sandwich

Dark Chocolate Bacon Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

May 8, 2015

Dark Chocolate Bacon Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Buttercream

These cupcakes are so friggin’ amazing.

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When Price and I finished our 2nd Whole30 at the end of April these were our big treat to celebrate completing it. And they were such a great way to celebrate!

As your diet while doing Whole30 is quite limited (amazing, but limited), you really should slowly introduce foods one at a time slowly while going back and forth to the Whole30 diet guidelines to see if things bother you. Since we had already (hap hazardly) done one reintroduction to ‘normal’ foods after our first Whole30 in February we just jumped at our chance to stuff our faces with these cupcakes.

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They were everything we had been thinking of those long 30 days.

The bacon.

The chocolate

The peanut butter.

Come, on… shut up!

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In fact I made these bad boys on Sunday, froze them, thought about them endlessly, and then inhaled a thawed Cupcake for dessert on Friday. They held up really, really well. Now I am scheming on making more and more cupcakes to freeze so we always have something sweet on hand. I’m thinking I need to get a deep freezer! ha!

I was tempted to make a chocolate frosting but at the last moment I asked Price if he thought a peanut butter frosting would be good and he picked that. I think it was the better choice in the end as well.

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I prefer to cut my bacon before cooking it whenever I am using crumbled bacon in a recipe. I just find it easier to work with. Plus, I prefer the bigger pieces of bacon in the cupcake. If you don’t want ‘big’ pieces then feel free to cook the bacon and then chop it up, you’ll get a more crumbly bacon that way.

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One thing to note when making them is that the batter is pretty thin, compared to most other cake batters I have made. Do not worry! They come out perfectly.

I mean, what’s better than a chocolatey cupcake studded with bacon topped off with a light and fluffy peanut butter buttercream!?!?

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Dark Chocolate Bacon Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Frosting

Makes 24 cupcakes

Ingredients

For the Cupcakes

  • 1 pound bacon
  • 2 Cups all-purpose flour
  • 3/4 Cup cocoa powder
  • 2 Cups sugar
  • 2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 2 eggs, at room temperature
  • 1 Cup cold coffee, preferably strong
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil

For the Frosting

  • 1/2 Cup unsalted butter, at room temperature
  • 2/3 Cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/2- 2/3 Cup milk
  • 6 Cups confectioners sugar
  • 1 Tablespoon Cocoa Powder, for dusting

Process

  1. To make the cupcakes, begin by preheating the oven to 375 degrees F. Fill 2 12-cup cupcake pans with liners.
  2. Using a scissor, cut the bacon into 1/4″ wide pieces. Cook the bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium-high heat until evenly brown. Drain and set aside.
  3. In a large bowl, stir together the flour, cocoa powder, sugar, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
  4. Pour in the eggs, coffee, buttermilk and oil into the dry ingredients mixture. Stir just until blended. Mix in 3/4 of the bacon, reserving the rest for garnish.
  5. Spoon the batter into the prepared cups, dividing evenly. 
  6. Bake 20-25 minutes, until the tops spring back when lightly pressed. Cool for 15 minutes in the pan prior to removing a wire rack. When cool, frost the cupcakes. 
  7. To make the frosting, beat the butter until light and fluffy.
  8. Top with the remaining bacon and then dust with the additional cocoa powder.

Cupcake sourced from All Recipes, frosting by I am a Honey Bee

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Filed Under: Cakes and Cupcakes, Recipes Tagged With: bacon, chocolate, chocolate bacon cupakes, cupcakes, peanut butter frosting

Homemade Paleo Bacon (Whole30 approved!!)

February 24, 2015

Homemade Paleo Bacon

During the first 2 weeks of our Whole30 adventure Price kept lamenting that the missed bacon. I wanted chocolate chip cookies. But that’s another story.

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Filed Under: Whole 30 Tagged With: bacon, homemade bacon, homemade sugar free bacon, paleo bacon, pork belly, sugar free bacon, Whole30 bacon, whole30 homemade bacon

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