Well damn, someone has got to comment on the bacon, but as a non-bacon eater I just don't feel qualified.
I did have a crazy downstairs neighbor once who cooked insane amount of bacon every morning. My whole apartment smelled like bacon. Then she'd get in her car, drive around the block and go back in her house. Pretty weird. She also went to Kinkos to make copies of her letters to the President warning him of the Pope's impending conquest of the world. Was it the bacon made her crazy? Or the crazy that made her love the bacon? Perhaps the bacon is the only thing that kept her from killing us all.
I have a love-hate relationship with pork products. Love bacon and prociutto and hate ham and pork chops.
Had a little prociutto/smoked ham taste off this Thanksgiving. Tried San Danielle and Parm prociutto, two serrano hams, speck and domestic prociutto. San Danielle won hands down and Speck came in second. German speck, because we couldn't find austrian.
3/4 cup bacon fat, cooled (from 1 1/2 to 2 pounds Oscar Mayer bacon)
1 cup sugar, plus 14 cup for dusting the cookies
4 tablespoons dark molasses
1 large egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, combine all ingredients. Spin until dough forms.
3. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for a few hours. Drop the dough in 1-tablespoon lumps on a cookie sheet, form into balls, roll in sugar, space 2 inches apart and press flat with fingers.
Bake in the oven for about 10-12 minutes until dark brown. Let cool on baking sheet for a few minutes, then transfer to a baking rack to finish cooling.
One my favorite yakitori places serve a cheese wrapped bacon on a stick dipped in sticky soyu sauce(or just pepper/salt)at 126 yen a piece.Japanese bacon is tottally different as it is mainly whitish instead of red.I usually ask myself if it is pork at all???Taste like Pork!!!Back to the yaktori they also have awesome porkballs and nama biru that`s icy cold.Today i headed to a Ramen Place and tried Curry Ramen for the first time!!It was awesome---just imagine ramen broth mixed with curry and add meaty fat pork bits with a thin pork cutlet slice`d(not fried usually BBQ`d).Add Ramen noodles with veggies and ginger!!!This was at very busy place the ramen was gigantic and at 680 yen about $5.75...Yummy!!!I also had the okinomiyaki there which is a japanese pancake with bacon or shrimp,veggies in the batter.Smatter`d with mayo and okinomiyaki sauce(a sweet sugar`ee soyo teriyaki sauce)..I here okinomiyaki is hip in Hiroshima and people vacation there just to try hiroshima style.Kumamoto is known for shoo chu...And people come here just for the hard drinkin` shoo chuu!!!I`m heading to Hakata on 12/16 for a lesson in Hakata Ben and maybe some hakata ramen.Take Care--jay
Well damn, someone has got to comment on the bacon, but as a non-bacon eater I just don't feel qualified.
ReplyDeleteI did have a crazy downstairs neighbor once who cooked insane amount of bacon every morning. My whole apartment smelled like bacon. Then she'd get in her car, drive around the block and go back in her house. Pretty weird. She also went to Kinkos to make copies of her letters to the President warning him of the Pope's impending conquest of the world.
Was it the bacon made her crazy? Or the crazy that made her love the bacon? Perhaps the bacon is the only thing that kept her from killing us all.
When you find the bacon cookie recipe, will you post it? I'm intrigued.
ReplyDeleteMore pork blogging: http://www.offalgood.com/
I've never before been so tempted by a $30 t-shirt.
dammit, at some point I have to make my infamous bacon wrapped tofu again. This time with pineapple chunks on top.
ReplyDeleteI have a love-hate relationship with pork products. Love bacon and prociutto and hate ham and pork chops.
ReplyDeleteHad a little prociutto/smoked ham taste off this Thanksgiving. Tried San Danielle and Parm prociutto, two serrano hams, speck and domestic prociutto. San Danielle won hands down and Speck came in second. German speck, because we couldn't find austrian.
Mmmmm, cured pork products. Love em.
ammmmanda
here's the recipe. they were a hit last year
ReplyDelete3/4 cup bacon fat, cooled (from 1 1/2 to 2 pounds Oscar Mayer bacon)
1 cup sugar, plus 14 cup for dusting the cookies
4 tablespoons dark molasses
1 large egg
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons kosher salt
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground ginger
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon.
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
2. In a food processor fitted with a metal blade, combine all
ingredients. Spin until dough forms.
3. Chill the dough in the refrigerator for a few hours. Drop the dough
in 1-tablespoon lumps on a cookie sheet, form into balls, roll in sugar,
space 2 inches apart and press flat with fingers.
Bake in the oven for about 10-12 minutes until dark brown. Let cool on
baking sheet for a few minutes, then transfer to a baking rack to finish
cooling.
Thanks for this post and link. My christmas shopping is now almost done.
ReplyDeleteOne my favorite yakitori places serve a cheese wrapped bacon on a stick dipped in sticky soyu sauce(or just pepper/salt)at 126 yen a piece.Japanese bacon is tottally different as it is mainly whitish instead of red.I usually ask myself if it is pork at all???Taste like Pork!!!Back to the yaktori they also have awesome porkballs and nama biru that`s icy cold.Today i headed to a Ramen Place and tried Curry Ramen for the first time!!It was awesome---just imagine ramen broth mixed with curry and add meaty fat pork bits with a thin pork cutlet slice`d(not fried usually BBQ`d).Add Ramen noodles with veggies and ginger!!!This was at very busy place the ramen was gigantic and at 680 yen about $5.75...Yummy!!!I also had the okinomiyaki there which is a japanese pancake with bacon or shrimp,veggies in the batter.Smatter`d with mayo and okinomiyaki sauce(a sweet sugar`ee soyo teriyaki sauce)..I here okinomiyaki is hip in Hiroshima and people vacation there just to try hiroshima style.Kumamoto is known for shoo chu...And people come here just for the hard drinkin` shoo chuu!!!I`m heading to Hakata on 12/16 for a lesson in Hakata Ben and maybe some hakata ramen.Take Care--jay
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