Bacon Explosion Pic by Mark Woodbury- Woodbury and Associates Photography

People are obsessed with bacon. Why? Because Bacon is awesome, that’s why. So while I usually strive to be healthy and offer up healthy recipes on my site, I’m going to go out out on a limb and give you the best of Bacon from my bacon loving BBQ buddies, my adventures on pinterest, and even a few of my own recipes.

Hooray for bacon!

To see a complete list of my favorite bacon ideas and recipes, go to my Bacon inspired pinterest board.

Food Trend: Sweet and Savory Bacon

Candied Bacon, or “Pig Candy” - a great recipe from John Dawson

Candied Bacon  Chocolate Cupcakes - my husband loved me a little more the day I made these

Sea Salted Dark Chocolate Chip with Bacon - again, my husband loved me a little more the day I made these

Bacon Ice cream 2 of the best things on earth put together.

Bacon Flavored MarshMallows - truly an original idea from Chris at Nibblemethis.com

Paula Deen’s Krispy Kreme burger, with Bacon - leave it to Paula Deen to make something so yummy and so utterly bad for you!

Chocolate Covered Bacon 

Meat, with More Bacon:

The Bacon Explosion - a Bacon Basket week stuffed with more meat, and then smoked.

Atomic Buffalo Turds (ABTs) -stuff jalapenos, wrap them in bacon, smoke them

Moink Balls - the infamous meatball wrapped in bacon, smoked and finished in BBQ rub

Bacon Rub - add bacon to your meat, in the form of a rub. Brilliant!

Bacon Mac N’ Cheese Burger – cool and different use of bacon in a burger, thanks to Clint from grilling.com

Vegetables, With Bacon:

Jalapeno Poppers - jalapenos stuffed with cream cheese, wrapped in bacon and then grilled or baked

Bacon Wrapped Asparagus - one of my most popular recipes, bar none

Wedge Salad, heavy on the bacon 

Paula Deen’s stuffed tomatoes with Bacon - notice Paula has made it twice on this post!

Dips:

Onion Bacon Marmalade - PatioDaddioBBQ’s infamous recipe

BLT Dip

Loaded Baked Potato Dip

Blue Cheese Bacon Dip - bacon and blue cheese are a match made in heaven!

Spirits:

Bacon Vodka - now you can infuse your favorite cocktails with the essence of bacon. Buying is much easier than trying to make your own!

Bacon Infused Bourbon - here are directions on how to make your own bacon infused bourbon. Not commercially made yet.

Condiments:

Baconnaise – everything you eat can taste like bacon now that they are packaging a bacon flavored mayo.

Bacon Salt

Bacon Hot Sauce – a double whammy of a combo if you ask me.

Bacon Jam – spreadable bacon

Finally, after eating this much bacon, you will most definitely need a “Bacon Coffin”.

You can actually buy a bacon coffin, brought to you from the same guys who brought you baconnaise.

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Grilled hummus, Fire Roasted Guacamole, chorizo queso dip, chili lime wings, jalapeno poppers and more!!

Who hoo, the holiday of all holidays where you get to drink large amounts of beer and gorge on really awesome finger food is upon us! If you click on my pinterest board link, you will see some of the best recipes from my BBQ friends and from the web that are ready to duke it out in front of your tv. I’ve also included some of my own personal recipes including jalapeno poppers done two ways.

Best of the Web:

John Dawson’s (Patio Daddio.com) Grilled Hummus- grilled garbanzo beans paired with tahini and grilled lemons! Yes please!

Chris Grove’s (Nibblemethis.com) Chili LIme Wings- my two favorite ingredients together!

Loaded Baked Potato Dip- myrecipes.com

Asian Meatballs with Hoisin Blackberry Glaze - from Justataste.com

My Favorite Recipes:

Fire Roasted Guacamole

Bacon Wrapped Asparagus

What’s in your Superbowl line up? I’d love to see your favorite recipes! Happy Superbowl everyone!

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Jalapeno Poppers made with jalapenos, cream cheese and bacon

Even people who don’t like spicy food have tried these at my house and have gone back for seconds. I wouldn’t classify this recipe as “healthy” yet it is healthier than traditional jalapeno poppers that have been put in a fryer! Whenever Scott and I make these, even if it is only the two of us, there are never any leftovers. They are that good!!

All you need for these poppers are:

1) jalapenos

2) cream cheese or neaufchatel cheese

3) one pack of bacon

Because you need a way to “suspend” the poppers on a rack to let the bacon cook and have the fat cook off, I actually take one of the racks out of my oven and put it on top of a 9″ X 13″ pan that is covered with tin foil (cuts down on the mess!). So, remember to take the rack out before you:

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

Now, prepare the peppers. Cut the stem off the peppers and with a knife, scrape all of the chilis and inside portion out of the inside of the peppers. (Leaving the seeds will make them even hotter, which is okay, but you need room inside to stuff your cream cheese.) For the really large peppers, chop them in half.

Now stuff the peppers with cream cheese. For the peppers you have cut in half, you will need to wrap the bacon around the top and bottom of the pepper so that the cream cheese cannot fall out. The peppers will be suspended in the oven so that the bacon can cook down… For the peppers that have only been cut where the stem was removed, simply stuff with cream cheese and the bacon only has to cover the top. You will cut each piece of bacon in halves of thirds to be the right size for the peppers. If the peppers you use are REALLY big, this will vary… If you do not cut the large peppers in half, they will be HOTTER. This makes the pepper to cheese to bacon ratio off and makes the experience much hotter, which is not a bad thing. I am just warning you!

Arrange your poppers on your oven rack over a baking pan lined in foil.

After stuffing the pepper with cream cheese, then wrapping it with bacon in the right way so that the cheese can’t fall out of the bottom, you will then secure it with a toothpick or a skewer that has been cut in half. This is what will suspend the poppers on the over rack so they cook evenly.

Bake in the oven for 30 minutes, or until bacon is beginning to get crispy and the cream cheese is bubbling.

THESE ARE EVERYONES FAVORITES!!! You can prepare these in advance and then pop them in someone’s oven if you are going to a friends house. ENJOY!!!

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