Bacon Wrapped Lil Smokies

Are you in need for a tasty snack?

Here is a treat for family and friends.

Ingredients:

1 pack Lil Smokies

1 pack of bacon

1 cup brown sugar

toothpicks

Instructions:

Preheat oven to 375 degrees.

Slice bacon strips into 4 pieces.

Wrap bacon around smokie and secure with toothpick.

Dip each wrapped smokie into the brown sugar &

rub brown sugar into smokie.

Place into baking pan.

Bake 25-30 minutes or until bacon is cooked.

If you wish to be fancy place a small piece of

pineapple onto toothpick before cooking.

"I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get."

 - George Burns

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Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

Welcome to the 2nd month of the  

Boy do we have a surprise for you!

BACON CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Yes, you did hear that right!

We were thinking-

What could make a Chocolate Chip Cookie better???

BACON- is our answer!

(okay to be totally honest bacon is always our answer)

Check out our

Bacon Caramel Brownies

Because the rules state our recipe must be found on another blog we started our search. 

What wonderful blogs are out there, but our favorite recipe came from

Closet Cooking

Here are a few of his yummy recipes with bacon

BELT 

Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Medjool Dates

Caramelized Pear & Gorgonzola Omelette

And oh so many more...

Bacon Chocolate Chip Cookies

**we did make a few changes - see below**

Ingredients:

1/2 cup butter (softened, feel free to replace some with bacon grease)

1/2 cup brown sugar (packed)

1/2 cup white sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 1/8 cup all purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking soda

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 cup dark chocolate chunks

5 strips, chopped bacon (Candied Bacon)

Directions:

1.  Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl.

2.  Beat in the egg and vanilla extract.

3.  Mix the flour, baking soda and salt in another bowl.

4.  Mix the dry ingredients into the wet.

5.  Mix in the chocolate and the bacon.

6.  Place the dough onto a cookie sheet one table spoon at a time.

7.  Bake in a 350 degree F preheated oven for 8-10 minutes.

Look you can see the bacon in the cookie

Our changes-

**Browned Butter-  Brown the butter in a heavy-bottom saucepan over medium-low heat.  Pay close attention (it can be hard to see the browning because of the foam).  About 3-5 minutes or until the butter has a nutty smell.  Let cool.

**Milk Chocolate Chips, because that is what we had on hand.

**Before baking- chill dough for about 20 minutes, then shape into balls and place onto parchment-lined baking sheet.  (Now is the time to freeze.  Place balls into freezer.  Once frozen store in Ziploc bags.)

**Extra melted Chocolate Chips for garnish- follow directions on package to melt. 

**Dip fork into melted chocolate and drizzle over cookies while they are cooling.

**Extra Candied Bacon for garnish and nibbling while cooking.

**We do not recommend using a plastic sandwich bag to drizzle the chocolate.  Our bag kept bursting and gave us big plops of chocolate.  Not quite the look we were going for. 

This is the look that we were going for

TA-DA

 Stressed spelled backwards is DESSERTS. Coincidence? 

 I think not! 

~Author Unknown

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Bacon-Wrapped Pork Medallions

Are you in need of an easy dinner?

What can beat Bacon-Wrapped Pork?

This recipe is adapted from

Hormel 

Ingredients:

• 1 package  Pork Tenderloin
•  Bacon
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
• Season to taste

1.  Heat oven to 400 degrees.
2.  Slice tenderloin into 1" medallions and season.  Wrap each medallion with bacon and secure with tooth pick.
3.  In an ovenproof pan, heat butter and oil until hot.  Add pork and brown on all sides, but don't cook through.
4.  Place pan into heated oven and cook for 15- 20 minutes or until bacon is crispy and pork is cooked.

After a day at the beach the three amigos really enjoyed this meal.

it even got a thumbs up!

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be.  ~Douglas Pagels

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Bacon Wrapped Green Beans

Everyone has a family favorite recipe!

One of ours is

Bacon Wrapped Green Beans

There are a few wonderful recipes that calls for brown sugar.

Even the Cooking Godess Paula Dean has a recipe for

Green Bean Bundles

Both sound so tasty, but our family likes this version.

Ingredients

• 1 pound fresh green beans 
• 1 bottle of Italian dressing
• Bacon cut in half

Directions

Rinse green beans and pat dry.  Snip of ends of the green beans if you wish. 

Bundle 5-6 green beans and wrap with a strip of bacon.

Cover with foil and marinate for 4 or more hours.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Place on pan and bake for 15 minutes, until bacon is cooked.

 "If you call ham "Canadian bacon", what do you call bacon?"

Michael Kelso, That '70s Show

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Bacon Caramel Brownie

Do you have an addiction to

BACON, CARAMEL or CHOCOLATE?

We do to all three, so here is a recipe to cover all

THREE!

This recipe is EASY PEASY!

Ingredients

1 box of brownie mix (and ingredients to make brownies)

4 Bacon slices crumbled- left over from breakfast

(he, he, he- I made a joke!  Like there is bacon left.)

Dreamy Caramel or Caramel Sauce

Follow directions on brownie box.

How does this look, Mom?  I think it is missing something.

Oops- don't forget the water!

Pour 1/2 of the batter in prepared pan.

Sprinkle bacon over mix in pan.

Now drop spoons full of caramel on top of bacon and swirl to make a caramel layer.

Add remaining mix to cover caramel.

Pop into oven and bake following cooking time on box of brownie mix.

For cleaner sliced brownies cool in pan.

Grab a glass of milk and enjoy!

There's nothing better than a good friend, except a good friend with chocolate. ~Linda Grayson



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