for Hooch the bacon king

[Flagstaff Jess]

While it may be old hat to many of the afficiandos in our ranks, here's a little something to cheer you in these rough, troubled bacon times Hooch...

"More Ways To Consume That Heavenly Food - The fourth annual Big Tex Choice award for best taste this year (at a precursor event to September's Texas State Fair) went to Glen Kusak's chicken-fried bacon. Earlier in the summer, fourth generation candy maker Joseph Marini introduced chocolate covered bacon bon-bons at his stand on California's Santa Cruz Boardwalk. For the more sophisticated, restauranteur Don Yovicsin of Waltham, MA serves bacon-infused Absolut vodka (allowed to sit for four weeks' time and then filtered of the bits). For a Bacon Bloody Mary - add mix, a lime wedge, "barbeque rub" and a Slim Jim."

This "collected from the mainstream press by Chuck Sheperd for "News of the Weird" and printed in The Funny Times (a very humorous publication by the way)...

I made bacon wrapped chicken breasts last weekend that were quite tasty.  I have deep fried bacon in the past.  This has me thinking though about making a thick beer batter and coating the bacon first before deep frying.....

hmmmmm

[Hooch]

While it may be old hat to many of the afficiandos in our ranks, here's a little something to cheer you in these rough, troubled bacon times Hooch...

"More Ways To Consume That Heavenly Food - The fourth annual Big Tex Choice award for best taste this year (at a precursor event to September's Texas State Fair) went to Glen Kusak's chicken-fried bacon. Earlier in the summer, fourth generation candy maker Joseph Marini introduced chocolate covered bacon bon-bons at his stand on California's Santa Cruz Boardwalk. For the more sophisticated, restauranteur Don Yovicsin of Waltham, MA serves bacon-infused Absolut vodka (allowed to sit for four weeks' time and then filtered of the bits). For a Bacon Bloody Mary - add mix, a lime wedge, "barbeque rub" and a Slim Jim."

This "collected from the mainstream press by Chuck Sheperd for "News of the Weird" and printed in The Funny Times (a very humorous publication by the way)...

I made bacon wrapped chicken breasts last weekend that were quite tasty.  I have deep fried bacon in the past.  This has me thinking though about making a thick beer batter and coating the bacon first before deep frying.....

hmmmmm

Hey, can you email me the exact recipe you told me about?  You listed about 87 different ingredients (I remember Paprika) but sort of lost the rest in my head somewhere.  I think behind the blocked off part of my memory involving the alien abduction.

[Flagstaff Jess]

While it may be old hat to many of the afficiandos in our ranks, here's a little something to cheer you in these rough, troubled bacon times Hooch...

"More Ways To Consume That Heavenly Food - The fourth annual Big Tex Choice award for best taste this year (at a precursor event to September's Texas State Fair) went to Glen Kusak's chicken-fried bacon. Earlier in the summer, fourth generation candy maker Joseph Marini introduced chocolate covered bacon bon-bons at his stand on California's Santa Cruz Boardwalk. For the more sophisticated, restauranteur Don Yovicsin of Waltham, MA serves bacon-infused Absolut vodka (allowed to sit for four weeks' time and then filtered of the bits). For a Bacon Bloody Mary - add mix, a lime wedge, "barbeque rub" and a Slim Jim."

This "collected from the mainstream press by Chuck Sheperd for "News of the Weird" and printed in The Funny Times (a very humorous publication by the way)...

I made bacon wrapped chicken breasts last weekend that were quite tasty.  I have deep fried bacon in the past.  This has me thinking though about making a thick beer batter and coating the bacon first before deep frying.....

hmmmmm

Hey, can you email me the exact recipe you told me about?  You listed about 87 different ingredients (I remember Paprika) but sort of lost the rest in my head somewhere.  I think behind the blocked off part of my memory involving the alien abduction.

Well it was one of those make it up as you go along things.  But I took boneless, skinless chicken breasts rubbed them with salt, pepper, paprika, garlic and cumin, then smeared the tops with spicy mustard.  In this case Janet had a jar of Cherry Habanero Mustard that she got in Durango.  The brand name is San Juan Mountain.  Yummy stuff.  Then I wrapped raw strips of bacon tightly around the chicken breasts and baked them in the over at 350 for 45 minutes.  Turned the broiler on for five minutes to crisp up the bacon and...

Voila

Succulent, spicy-sweet bacon chicken.  The chicken was REALLY juicy.  I am sure they would do really well on the grill too.  I'll make this one night next year at Fishbone for dinner.  Also gonna bring the deep fryer.  Lord only knows what I will produce with that thing!




 Listening to: Janet blow dry her hair

[ilovethelorax]

... I'll make this one night next year at Fishbone for dinner... 

Hallelujah!

 Listening to: golden globes

[Flagstaff Jess]

... I'll make this one night next year at Fishbone for dinner... 

Hallelujah!

I am so excited!  We have to have a turkey fry night too.  We can take like 4 or 5 turkey breasts and inject them with different succulent marinades.  In between turkeys we can find other things to fry - like bacon!  Our imaginations can just run wild...

But one morning...we are making beignets for breakfast.  I will bring the mix and we will whip them up!

Can't wait!

ooo, I am also bringing a two person inflatible kayak.  We can day float the river.  You and Pete can put Sam in the middle and paddle between Fishbone and the bridge...or we can tie it to shore with a long line, climb in, drift in the stream and nap

[landshark]

  Ohhh goody Jess , I will finally get to meet you lil' sista....

[Debbiefromtucson]

... I'll make this one night next year at Fishbone for dinner... 

Hallelujah!

I am so excited!  We have to have a turkey fry night too.  We can take like 4 or 5 turkey breasts and inject them with different succulent marinades.  In between turkeys we can find other things to fry - like bacon!  Our imaginations can just run wild...

But one morning...we are making beignets for breakfast.  I will bring the mix and we will whip them up!

 WOW, I'm jealous and drooling..... Can we be considered an annex??? .   We will have an extra turkey frying rig handy if needed.

[ilovethelorax]

... I'll make this one night next year at Fishbone for dinner... 

Hallelujah!

I am so excited!  We have to have a turkey fry night too.  We can take like 4 or 5 turkey breasts and inject them with different succulent marinades.  In between turkeys we can find other things to fry - like bacon!  Our imaginations can just run wild...

But one morning...we are making beignets for breakfast.  I will bring the mix and we will whip them up!

Can't wait!

ooo, I am also bringing a two person inflatible kayak.  We can day float the river.  You and Pete can put Sam in the middle and paddle between Fishbone and the bridge...or we can tie it to shore with a long line, climb in, drift in the stream and nap

Jess, really, you must stop. Now you've gone and made me go all pavlov over beignets and I can already hear the river's song and we've just gone over the halfway hump. I'll never last.

Of course this goes without saying but have a fabulous time perfecting your recipe in the motherland. I'm jealous but love the vision I have of your mug all jazzed up and covered with powdered sugar.

Did you get to sample James' sopapillas that year Debbie? Oh... they rocked!

 Listening to: OPB radio show regarding proposed new wilderness areas for us all. Tell your senators now if you love it!

[Ron N Deb]

Looks Like our Little Island is gonna be rocking for food stuff
Im Bringing the Grill,Plowdish,Smoker,and the Fryer !!
now to plan the food ..lets see Bacon , Bacon , Bacon
there think we are covered !
 

[Flagstaff Jess]

... I'll make this one night next year at Fishbone for dinner... 

Hallelujah!

I am so excited!  We have to have a turkey fry night too.  We can take like 4 or 5 turkey breasts and inject them with different succulent marinades.  In between turkeys we can find other things to fry - like bacon!  Our imaginations can just run wild...

But one morning...we are making beignets for breakfast.  I will bring the mix and we will whip them up!

Can't wait!

ooo, I am also bringing a two person inflatible kayak.  We can day float the river.  You and Pete can put Sam in the middle and paddle between Fishbone and the bridge...or we can tie it to shore with a long line, climb in, drift in the stream and nap

Jess, really, you must stop. Now you've gone and made me go all pavlov over beignets and I can already hear the river's song and we've just gone over the halfway hump. I'll never last.

Of course this goes without saying but have a fabulous time perfecting your recipe in the motherland. I'm jealous but love the vision I have of your mug all jazzed up and covered with powdered sugar.

Did you get to sample James' sopapillas that year Debbie? Oh... they rocked!

When I was in New Orleans last summer I took myself out for coffee and beignets one afternoon.  It was stupid what I did to myself.  There was powder sugar everywhere.  You know it isn't a beignet if there isn't 3 lbs of powdered sugar on it.

I think beignets are probably best eaten naked.  Otherwise the oil and sugar just sticks to your clothes in the worst way and you look untidy.  They should just let you strip down, eat your beignets naked and then have a hose off station where you can clean up and then get dressed again.  I'll add that to the suggestion box when I return to the Big Easy this spring.

[Hooch]

Looks Like our Little Island is gonna be rocking for food stuff
Im Bringing the Grill,Plowdish,Smoker,and the Fryer !!
now to plan the food ..lets see Bacon , Bacon , Bacon
there think we are covered !
 

Also, I will bring bacon, backup bacon, and emergency backup bacon.  Just in case.  Maybe this will be the year that TBF is sponsored by bacon.  A bacon booth giving out free bacon samples right next door to the Keen shoes tent.  I love Keen shoes too, by the way.  

[Hooch]

... I'll make this one night next year at Fishbone for dinner... 

Hallelujah!

I am so excited!  We have to have a turkey fry night too.  We can take like 4 or 5 turkey breasts and inject them with different succulent marinades.  In between turkeys we can find other things to fry - like bacon!  Our imaginations can just run wild...

But one morning...we are making beignets for breakfast.  I will bring the mix and we will whip them up!

Can't wait!

ooo, I am also bringing a two person inflatible kayak.  We can day float the river.  You and Pete can put Sam in the middle and paddle between Fishbone and the bridge...or we can tie it to shore with a long line, climb in, drift in the stream and nap

Jess, really, you must stop. Now you've gone and made me go all pavlov over beignets and I can already hear the river's song and we've just gone over the halfway hump. I'll never last.

Of course this goes without saying but have a fabulous time perfecting your recipe in the motherland. I'm jealous but love the vision I have of your mug all jazzed up and covered with powdered sugar.

Did you get to sample James' sopapillas that year Debbie? Oh... they rocked!

When I was in New Orleans last summer I took myself out for coffee and beignets one afternoon.  It was stupid what I did to myself.  There was powder sugar everywhere.  You know it isn't a beignet if there isn't 3 lbs of powdered sugar on it.

I think beignets are probably best eaten naked.  Otherwise the oil and sugar just sticks to your clothes in the worst way and you look untidy.  They should just let you strip down, eat your beignets naked and then have a hose off station where you can clean up and then get dressed again.  I'll add that to the suggestion box when I return to the Big Easy this spring.

Yay!  We are back to talking about nakedness!

[ilovethelorax]

... I'll make this one night next year at Fishbone for dinner... 

Hallelujah!

I am so excited!  We have to have a turkey fry night too.  We can take like 4 or 5 turkey breasts and inject them with different succulent marinades.  In between turkeys we can find other things to fry - like bacon!  Our imaginations can just run wild...

But one morning...we are making beignets for breakfast.  I will bring the mix and we will whip them up!

Can't wait!

ooo, I am also bringing a two person inflatible kayak.  We can day float the river.  You and Pete can put Sam in the middle and paddle between Fishbone and the bridge...or we can tie it to shore with a long line, climb in, drift in the stream and nap

Jess, really, you must stop. Now you've gone and made me go all pavlov over beignets and I can already hear the river's song and we've just gone over the halfway hump. I'll never last.

Of course this goes without saying but have a fabulous time perfecting your recipe in the motherland. I'm jealous but love the vision I have of your mug all jazzed up and covered with powdered sugar.

Did you get to sample James' sopapillas that year Debbie? Oh... they rocked!

...I think beignets are probably best eaten naked.  Otherwise the oil and sugar just sticks to your clothes in the worst way and you look untidy.  They should just let you strip down, eat your beignets naked and then have a hose off station where you can clean up and then get dressed again.  I'll add that to the suggestion box when I return to the Big Easy this spring.

This could explain why those little bits of devilish goodness (hmm...is that a non-sequitur?) haven't made it further north, out of the Big Easy. Louisiana is a blue state after all...

And how about some gator bites sauteed with bacon? You could even eat them naked. (There back on topic...)

 

[Ron N Deb]

Did I meantion I love all you beutifull
naked eaters !!
The world would be such a wonderful place
if the just followed our Lead!~!
 
 

sidenote To The Mayor aka God of smileys
we need a nekad smiley ....lol
 

[Ron N Deb]

Hmmmm I just had a Idea ( yep I just smelled smoke)
Bacon Party at Orvis !!!