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Arugula Corn Salad with Bacon
Arugula Corn Salad with Bacon
This is a salad of bold flavors, but somehow they all manage to work together well. Sweet corn tossed with peppery arugula, bacon, onion, cumin, and wine vinegar to balance the sweet corn, and you have stimulated all the major...
Bacon-wrapped Pork Roast
Bacon-wrapped Pork Roast
An easy way to dress up a simple pork roast is to wrap it in bacon. The bacon fat brings extra juiciness and flavor to the roast.
Beet Greens
Beet Greens
All these years I've been loving beets but throwing the beet greens away. Yikes! No more. This is a delicious way to serve greens, whether collard, kale, or beet.
Braised Red Cabbage with Chestnuts
Braised Red Cabbage with Chestnuts
Looking for a festive holiday side dish? One my favorite winter sides is my dad's sweet and sour red cabbage. The following recipe takes that Austrian standard up a notch with the addition of apples, onions, and roasted chestnuts. So...
Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Chestnuts
Brussels Sprouts with Bacon and Chestnuts
Have you started your holiday meal planning yet? If you have, bravo! If you haven't, don't despair, neither have we. Typically that happens about two days before the event. But if I have anything to do with it this year...
Cauliflower with Pine Nuts and Bacon
Cauliflower with Pine Nuts and Bacon
Cauliflower lovers unite! I'm always looking for ways to dress up my favorite white vegetable. Here's a quickie, inspired by Southern Italian flavors. A little bacon (or pancetta), some roasted pine nuts, some garlic (of course), oregano, and red pepper...
Chicken Bacon Roulades
Chicken Bacon Roulades
Chicken breasts, pounded thin, stuffed with bacon, shallots, and Parmesan, rolled up, browned, roasted, then served sliced, with a creamy white sauce. Yowza. This meal, a veritable feast, is dedicated to Simply Recipes frequent commenter jonathan who knows that if...
Chipotle Lime Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp
Chipotle Lime Bacon-Wrapped Shrimp
When I put the call out a few weeks ago for July 4th grilling suggestions, Simply Recipes reader Chuck mentioned bacon-wrapped shrimp. I'm sure this is a standard fare for many of you, but I can't remember ever eating bacon-wrapped...
Crispy Turkey Bacon
Crispy Turkey Bacon
Okay, so this isn't really bacon, but it tastes like bacon and you can crumble it over twice-baked potatoes or sprinkle it over bean soup. This comes from a tip from a reader, who heard about it from Jacques Pepin...
Grilled Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Hot Dogs
Grilled Bacon-Wrapped Stuffed Hot Dogs
I remarked to my father than we had been doing a lot of salads and veggies lately and without missing a beat dad said, "I want to make stuffed hot dogs," adding, "on the grill," pointing to a particularly appetizing...
Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Bacon and Pear
Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Bacon and Pear
A few months ago I had the pleasure of accompanying Amy of Cooking with Amy and Brett of In Praise of Sardines for a light bite to eat at the Arlequin deli in Hayes Valley, San Francisco. Amy highly recommended...
Poached Egg and Bacon Salad - Salad Lyonnaise
Poached Egg and Bacon Salad - Salad Lyonnaise
I saw a tasty salad on Ben Trott's Vox page and just had to make it. It is a traditional French salad, called Salad Lyonnaise, made with frisée or curly endive, hot bacon, and a freshly poached egg. Not one...
Quiche Lorraine
Quiche Lorraine
It occurred to me a while ago that the site was missing a Quiche Lorraine recipe. Hah! An opportunity to cook bacon! (Like we don't get enough of those around here?) Culinary trends took an odd turn in the 70s...
Rendering Bacon Fat
Rendering Bacon Fat
A Simply Recipes reader recently asked in the comments, "Where do I get bacon fat?" Great question, especially considering that we use bacon fat (also called bacon grease) around here in many of the recipes. I remember as a kid...
Sauerkraut with Bacon and Apples
Sauerkraut with Bacon and Apples
All this talk of the sweet goodness you can make apples this season, and as someone rightly pointed out to me, there are many savory things you can make with apples as well. My dear Minnesota-raised father, who cannot resist...
Sautéed Chestnuts, Onions, and Bacon
Sautéed Chestnuts, Onions, and Bacon
Please welcome guest author, the inimitable David Leite of Leite's Culinaria. Looking for a good side for Christmas dinner? David shares one of his favorite recipes from his fabulous new cookbook, The New Portuguese Table ~Elise I know within two...
Smoked Bacon BLT with Arugula
Smoked Bacon BLT with Arugula
Do you like BLTs? (BLT=Bacon Lettuce Tomato sandwich for those of you readers not familiar with this American classic.) I've been mad for them as long as I can remember. But I never thought to sub out the lettuce for...
Spaghetti alla Carbonara
Spaghetti alla Carbonara
Spaghetti pasta alla carbonara. Luscious and wonderfully indulgent, it takes as long to make as it does to cook the spaghetti. The ingredients are simple, just spaghetti (or other long pasta), pancetta or bacon, eggs, Parm, a little olive oil...
Turkey and Bacon Rolls
Turkey and Bacon Rolls
Wandering around the web the other day, I encountered this recipe for gorgeous looking rocamboles de volaille, basically a poultry roll, on a French-language website about Portuguese food. In Brazil apparently rolled foods are called "rocamboles"; if there are Brazilians...