Bacon for dinner???

[Juneboarder]

Does anyone have any really yummy ideas on how to incorporate a package of bacon into your dinner meal? I have a package that needs to be used today and my mind is drawing a blank when it comes to dinner...

Thank you for any suggestions

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Cut it up, saute, adding garlic and scallions.

Toss with pasta (I use bowties) and olive oil. Top with cheese. Nummy!

[cbayer]

4. Yes! An Italian friend of mine makes some of the best bacon/mushroom pasta

I have ever had.

I have to avert my eyes when he adds all that heavy cream, but it is indescribably delicious.

[Juneboarder]

6. Yumm!

With all my pasta dishes I've made, I have yet to incorporate bacon into one. A must try for the next time around!

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Dutch Oven Potatoes. These are wonderful and can easily be made in a casserole dish

in the oven. Use this as the main dish and servce with a salad or other veggies.

http://papadutch.home.comcast.net/~papadutch/dutch-oven-recipe-dopotatoes.htm

[Juneboarder]

8. That sounds really good!

I'm not sure how to convert the coal units over to oven temperatures, but looks easy enough to "wing" the cooking temps/times.

Thank you for sharing

[Arkansas Granny]

12. I'd just cover it and bake at 350F until the potatoes were tender.

You could uncover it for the last few minutes and let it brown a little on top if you wanted. You can use any combination of cream soups in this recipe.

[cbayer]

3. BLT's? Or have breakfast for dinner.

I made cheese grits with bacon the other night, one of my favorite food.

I also often crumble bacon for salads or to put on baked potatoes.

Bacon, imho, is good on pretty much anything (including cheese cake).

[Juneboarder]

5. Yes, I agree with you whole-heartedly

Bacon is great on anything! I initially thought breakfast for dinner or BLT, but so simple and wanted something outside the norm...

And believe it or not, I've only tried grits in my life once and didn't like them - go figure :/

[cbayer]

9. Then you might want to go for a pasta, as mentioned above.

You could also cook it all up, crumble and store for awhile.

My husband claimed not to like grits either, until I made them for him the right way. Now he loves them.

My absolute favorite way to have them is Grillades and Grits. All that rich gravy over creamy, perfectly cooked grits. Yum!

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Cheese grits with bacon=One of my favorites!

I also add shrimp sometimes from a Low country shrimp and grits recipe I got a while back. Now I'm starrrrrrrvvvvving!

[cbayer]

11. And grillades and grits, as I mention above.

Takes most of the day, but it is heaven.

[freshwest]

24. That would be my suggestion, too.

[pinto]

10. Bacon, red onion and chunky peanut butter sandwiches on wheat?

Sounds odd, but cold or grilled they work. Maybe take a leap and use a bit of Asian dressing on the bread, as well.

(on edit) Or make as a stuffed pita thing with shredded lettuce...

[jeff47]

13. If it's about to expire, and you don't like the ideas here

You can always cook it and then refrigerate it. Can go for roughly a week in the fridge once it's cooked.

In general, bacon works great in pasta, as a topping, or wrapped around another hunk of meat, especially if that meat isn't very flavorful itself (like chicken).

[cbayer]

14. Or meatloaf! Wrapping a meatloaf in bacon is a great idea!

[cbayer]

15. I forgot about one of my favorite dishes!

I love to stuff jalapeño peppers with cream cheese, wrap in bacon and bake until crisp.

I usually serve it as an appetizer, but it could be part of a dinner.

Absolutely delicious!

[kurtzapril4]

16. Bacon sandwiches!

with cheese!

[Lucinda]

17. We do a very decadent baked thing with bacon, cabbage, onions, potatoes

and butter.
What did you decide to do?

[kas125]

18. When I have bacon that needs to be cooked, I cook the whole pound.

I use what's needed for that meal and crumble the rest into bacon bits that go into the freezer to be used later.

[Bolo Boffin]

19. Cold pan. As many slices as will fit. Turn eye on to medium-low heat.

Turn once.

Low to no popping, bacon still gets done.

What you don't eat right then and there, refrigerate. What you don't cook, freeze.

If you have a chuck roast, you can add bacon to a nice beef stew. Cook bacon first (5 or 6) in a Dutch oven, brown salt-and-peppered cubed chuck roast (about 3 pounds) in bacon grease, set both aside (chop bacon up into pieces). Saute 2 cups chopped onion till translucent, add some minced garlic for 30 seconds, then 3 tablespoons of flour. Cook that a minute, then deglaze the Dutch oven with 1.5 cups red wine (I use red Zinfindal) and 1.5 cups low-sodium chicken broth. Get that to simmering with 2 bay leaves and some fresh thyme (or your choice of seasoning), add the meat, get it simmering again, and pop it in a 200-250 oven for an couple of hours (whatever keeps the simmer going). Add pearl onions and some orange zest, and let it cook for another hour. Add some fresh chopped parsely at the end and serve with crusty bread.

[pscot]

20. Wrap bacon strips around green bean bundles

and bake in an egg custard. Microwave the bacon a bit first, to remove liquid and some of the grease. It's easy and delish.

[Bolo Boffin]

21. The Bacon-Bacon-Bacon sandwich

First, cook two slices of bacon to tide you over until you're finished with the rest of the recipe.

Then, cook six slices of bacon crisp.

Place two on the plate, right next to each other, or even overlapping just a bit.

Take two slices and slice into squares. Arrange the bacon squares on top of the two slices of bacon.

At this point, you might shred some cheese over the bacon squares. But do this in the privacy of your own home, so as to minimize the scorn of bacon purists.

Take the final two slices of bacon, and place them on top of the bacon filling.

Now would be a good time to cook more bacon. It should be done by the time you finish with your BBB sandwich. Bacon makes a tasty dessert after a bacon app and bacon-bacon-bacon sandwich.

The Bacon-Bacon-Bacon sandwich. Coming to a State Fair near you!

[cbayer]

23. This is hilarious...

but drool inducing.

[grasswire]

22. quiche

a lovely bacon and asparagus quiche is a great supper

So many quiche variations will work with bacon.

By the way, the name for pasta with bacon, onion, parm, etc. is pasta a la carbonara -- if you want to look for a recipe.

[freshwest]

25. When I bought bacon, I cut the slices in half in the plastic.

Then separated them to three slices each, froze them in a plastic container, using the plastic to keep them separate.

When frozen, I took them out and tossed the three piece bundles into a ziplock to take less space. That way I never worried about them going bad.

I also toss all bread products into the freezer, because it takes me months to use up a loaf of bread.

[Whisp]

26. I sometimes like to make 'lazy halabchis'

that is cabbage rolls without the rolling.

fry bacon and onions in a pan. add green peppers, anything else you have around.
boil some cut up cabbage.

mix it all in cooked white (or brown) rice with lots of pepper, is how I like it.

put in the oven for a bit.
I also like to top it up with some campbells tomato soup. man, I love that stuff.

[susanlinch]

29. great idea, i'll try it

great idea, i'll try it. thanks whisp

[Duer 157099]

27. If you're not Rice a Roni averse...

here's one I learned growing up: scramble some eggs, cut the bacon into small pieces and fry it up, make up a box of chicken rice a roni and mix them all together.

I don't know why, but it works.

And if you really want to kick it up, add some A1 sauce on the side.

[Duer 157099]

28. Also, you could always just cook it and then freeze it

Fry or bake the bacon, then just freeze it for when you need it--microwave briefly to thaw and away you go!