Grilled Cheese Sandwich with Bacon and Fried Egg

This sandwich makes my husband lose his senses. I only make it for him once a year, on Father’s Day, which I’m sure you’ll understand once you look at the recipe. It’s not exactly the most healthy of breakfasts, but it is delicious!
The recipe comes from Sara Foster’s Casual Cooking, but the recipe is so [...]

Green Beans with Bacon and Sage

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This is a super-simple side that is also delicious. Try it alongside any Italian-style dish. I enjoyed it with mushroom-stuffed ravioli in a simple tomato sauce. To be really authentic, you could substitute pancetta for the bacon, of course, but sometimes we must make do with what we have on hand. Still, as [...]

Southwestern Scramble with Avocado, Bacon & Cheese

After I set a goal of posting a recipe daily, I skip a day, of course! Well, I never claimed I’d meet the goal, just that I would try to. I got too busy yesterday to post, but last night we had a nice “no time to cook” dinner composed of little bits of leftovers [...]

The Incredible Breakfast Salad

When my husband and I go out to eat at Vin Rouge, our favorite local French bistro, he always gets what he has dubbed “the breakfast salad.” Of course, anyone who is familiar with French cooking would recognize it as the classic Salade Lyonnaise, but with fried potatoes, chewy-crisp lardons and a poached egg on [...]

Easy but Impressive Brunch Dish: Baked Eggs and Roasted Bacon

‘Tis the season for brunch. I prefer having a crowd over for brunch rather than dinner. It always seems easier to prepare, because I have more energy in the mornings, and if I’m really thinking ahead, I can do some cooking the day before. And if I’m not thinking ahead, store-bought pastries still work just [...]

Useful How-tos for Cooking Bacon & Eggs

My how-to articles are among my most popular posts on this blog. I don’t write nearly enough of them, because it’s tough to write a good how-to, especially for tasks I might do all the time and consider second nature.
That’s why I wanted to highlight some great how-tos that I’ve run across recently on my [...]

Greens Cooked with Bacon

In the South, it is a New Year’s Day tradition to eat black-eyed peas and collard greens. When I was a kid, I was convinced that this “tradition” was a trick to get me to eat things like black-eyed peas and collard greens. Now, of course, I realize this is one of many New Year’s [...]

Bacon Is Back

Since I’m pregnant, I’m only supposed to be allowing good healthy things to pass into the temple of motherhood that is now my body (sarcasm definitely on). And for the most part, I have been. Fruit, yogurt, broccoli, spinach, eggs, stuff like that have all been in my diet of late.
But something new has crept [...]