Bacon Recipe Ideas

Bacon can be used in many other ways to add zest and spice to your meals than just as a topping for burgers or served with eggs in a traditional breakfast. For your next salad, fry up a few rashers of bacon until they are really crispy. You won’t believe the difference the crumbled real bacon tastes as compared to commercially bought bacon bits.

How does warm blue cheese with garlic and bacon sound when you want something to serve with bread? This is a very simple recipe that takes only 7 slices of bacon. The other ingredients for this recipe are:

2 cloves of peeled and minced garlic
an 8-ounce package of cream cheese, softened at room temperature
¼ cup of half and half
4 ounces of crumbled blue cheese
2 tablespoons of fresh chives

Fry the bacon until crispy, let drain on paper towels and then crumble into small pieces. Cook the garlic in the hot grease left from frying the bacon for about 1 minute until it is soft. Mix the cream cheese and the half and half with an electric mixer until the two ingredients are well blended. Stir in the bacon, blue cheese, garlic and chives. Place the mixture in a medium sized baking dish and bake at 180 celsius for 30 minutes.

Chicken tastes delicious when it is wrapped in bacon and then cooked. You need to have a boneless, skinless for each person that will be dining with you. Cut the strips of bacon into three pieces and warp them around each chicken breast. Line a baking pan with dried strips of beef and place the chicken breasts on the top. Add water and bake at 190 celsius for 45 minutes.

The most common sandwich using bacon is the BLT – bacon lettuce and tomato, but bacon can be added to just about any meat in a sandwich. Serve it will chicken or turkey or add crumbled bits of bacon to an egg salad for just the right taste.