August 20th is National Bacon Lovers Day, one of 11 annual bacon holidays and a nudge for us to round up some of our favorite bacon recipes.
Did you know that you can make bacon jam from bacon drippings? It’s not the same texture as turning chopped bacon into jam, but it delivers the aroma and flavor with no extra expense. The recipe is below.
Below:
> Desserts, snacks, and sweets.
Elsewhere on The Nibble:
> The different types of bacon: a photo glossary.
> The history of bacon.
> The year’s 11 bacon holidays.
50+ FUN RECIPES WITH BACON
Breakfast
[7] Bacon jam is delicious on biscuits or toast. We haven’t yet tried it on a bagel and cream cheese (photo © Smithfield).
Appetizers & Condiments
Drinks
[1] BLT pancakes are sophisticated enough for lunch or “brinner.” Here’s the recipe (photo © Wisconsin Cheese).
[2] What’s better than cheese fries? Bacon cheese fries! Here’s the recipe (photo © Idaho Potato Commission).
[3] Celebrate July 4th with a bacon flag pizza. Here’s the recipe (photo © The Nibble).
[4] Beef and bacon hash is an elevated alternative to corned beef hash. Here’s the recipe (photo © Lodge Cast Iron).
[5] Bourbon-roasted oysters are a cousin to Oysters Rockefeller (which adds spinach and removes the Bourbon). Here’s the recipe (photo © James Antrim | iStock Photo).
[6] Brussels spouts with bacon jam might turn ambivalent Brussels sprouts eaters into fans. Here’s the recipe (photo © Pampered Chef).
[8] Candied sriracha bacon bites are a sweet-and-salty treat with cocktails, wine, or beer. Here’s the recipe (photo © Time Home Entertainment).
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*Brinner is a playful slang term for eating breakfast foods for dinner, making a portmanteau of “breakfast” and “dinner”. A portmanteau is a linguistic and morphological term, where parts of both original words are blended together to create a brand-new meaning. Morphology, a.k.a. lexicography, is the scientific study of how words are built and structured in a language.
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