Must be that time of year again.

[azurelunatic]

For whatever reason, I like bacon. Now, this does not go over well with the rest of my household, as votania and marxdarx do not do well with pork. As far as I can figure, he just doesn't like it, whereas she actually barfs after eating it.

So, we're a relatively pork-free household. This is generally not a problem for me, as my parents didn't use much pork when I was growing up. The exceptions were the rare instances of salami, pork fried rice, and bacon, and the fairly regular happiness of pepperoni (pizza is good).

There is enough in the way of processed lunch-type sausage meat that excludes pork to make me happy. Pork fried rice is a rare luxury that I indulge myself in (though I do miss making it at home). We have found turkey pepperoni that works for all of us.

Bacon, on the other hand...

I like it. I can live without it. However, when it comes to a choice between have it, or not have it, I tend to have it.


The usual compromise is pre-cooked bacon from Sam's. We get a package of it for about the same amount of money as the same amount of raw. Saves me time, and saves her nausea. Every now and then, someone gets a package of raw bacon and sticks it in the freezer. I usually fry up the whole lot at once, and stick it in a container in the refrigerator, to save her poor nose/stomach.

Dug the package out of the freezer last night. Yum.

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something I've found that is sorta like bacon

[icanreadyourmnd.livejournal.com]

is sliced pepperoni (the small ones not the large salami sized pepperoni) nuked for under 2 minutes (depending on how crispy you like it - it's a trial and error thing). it may sound weird but it has become something I eat in place in bacon except when I'm at an east coast diner at midnight on a Friday or Saturday night -then I get a double order of twice cooked bacon and a cheddar omelet, hold the toast.

yeah, yeah, I'm weird but the pepperoni thing is very similar to bacon! just a thought.....

Re: something I've found that is sorta like bacon

[azurelunatic]

Hmm.

I may have to try that, some day when I'm feeling like experimenting.

[faelad.livejournal.com]

Bacon is simply amazing, when it is cooked correctly. That is, in a cast-iron pan with a bacon press. Campfire is optional, though it does tend to make everything tastier.

I was almost a vegatarian, once. Bacon was one thing that I really missed.

I'm glad that you can still indulge. :)

[azurelunatic]

So am I.

[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

husband finds bacon ungodly, and the way I make bacon sandwiches is a coronary nightmare, so I limit myself to twice a Year. A whole pound of bacon, cooked in the cast iron pan on the grill, the greese saved for seasoning of ham and beans....and then once all cooked made into two sandwiches, on rye bread, with cheese, lettuce, thick slices of tomato, thin slices of onion, and a half lb of bacon each.

I do this when the tomatoes first come on in the spring and are perfect and ripe, not hothouse water sad things, and then once again at the end of the season as a farewell to the fruits of summer. Served with it is anything and everything you might find in a garden. Onions, asparagus, kohlrabi, salad fixin's, carrots, cucumbers. etc.

mmmmmmmwatermelon for desert.

can your friends do turkey bacon?

[azurelunatic]

Hm. Turkey bacon. That's an idea.

votania likes this ungodly "veggie bacon" stuff that tastes like cardboard carcinogens-in-a-box, but I can't stand it.