Bacon Bits

This gets filed under “Why didn’t I think of this?”
http://www.miniburgers.com

Cindy at Food Migration sent me this, and I just had to share:

http://www.nipponham.co.jp/winny/kazari
(Don’t worry, they’re not THOSE kind of wieners.)

Squirrel behavior with nuts is frighteningly similar to my relationship with bacon:

http://pratie.blogspot.com/2005/06/squirrel-fishing.html
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~yaz/en/squirrel_fishing.html

The Seattle Times has a write up in today’s paper about fathers and cooking. I submitted a blurb and a recipe for my dad’s jook. The blurb was printed but it doesn’t look like the recipe made the cut (it’s not exactly a summer-time recipe).

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/foodwine/2002335619_dad15.html

My dad’s jook recipe:
https://www.iheartbacon.com/recipes/recipe.php?recID=105

Happy Father’s Day, Dad!!

I watched Hell’s Kitchen last night and I came away with two things:

1. Gordon Ramsay is an ass.
2. Fox needs to get better programming directors.

This has always been a saying that stuck with me because up until I heard that, I did kind of think of my freezer as a magic box. A magic box that defied the laws of nature, just for me. A magic box that perfectly preserved anything that was left in its care. A magical place where time stopped indefinitely.

So ever since I realized there were limits to what my freezer could do, I started worrying about how long things could safely stay in there. I’ve been furtively searching for a definitive guide for a while now, so was very happy to find a website entitled the “National Center for Home Food Preservation”! They have an entire, and thorough, section devoted to your freezer. (I was also delighted to find the section on Curing and Smoking.)

Now my freezer is just a semi-magical box.

My previous search didn’t return any bacon-specific poetry, but ThatBobbieGirl just emailed me to let me know she wrote an honest-to-god, Ode to Bacon!

Bacon! food perfection!

http://www.googlism.com/index.htm?ism=bacon&type=1

It’s really rare that I come across something on the internet that’s so funny I almost pee my pants. I guess today was my lucky day.

I found this video clip at ChefBlog and it’s oddly reminiscent of my recent experience with crabs…

http://chefjoanna.blogspot.com/2005/04/my-food-is-coming-to-get-me.html

This is too funny not to link to:
http://www.travelerslunchbox.com/journal/2005/4/29/haggis-hunting.html