Bacon Love Fridays Archive

We all love reading blogs about bacon. It must come as no surprise to hear that I spend a good chunk of my free time scouring the web looking for well-written and engaging posts about bacon. Whether I am looking for bacon recipes, bacon facts, or some fun novelty posts about everyone’s favourite food, blogs are often my primary sources of research.

But there’s a lot more bacon content out there than can be contained on traditional blogging platforms. More and more bacon fans are reaching out on social media to share their bacon knowledge and interact with each other. Twitter, in particular, is rapidly becoming a hub of the online bacon community. Not only do a number of great bloggers use Twitter to keep keep followers and fans updated about new content, they often have brilliant quips and snippets to share throughout the day. Continue reading this article…

When you really love something, when there is some item or activity that you are truly passionate about, you can take great pleasure in sharing that with someone. In particular, for those of us that are parent, there are few things more wonderful than sharing the things we love with our children and watching them enjoy those special things too. As a bacon lover, sharing the wonders of bacon with your kids is a fun and delicious activity for the whole family to enjoy. From Sunday morning family brunches that bring everyone together are a wonderful bonding activity, as are weeknight cooking experiments.

Whether your little ones already love bacon, or you’re hoping to encouraging the affinity, we bacon-loving parents may find that a great way to celebrate their family love if bacon is through giving their children bacon toys. And not all of these toys are for kids, either – after all, up to 35% of all adults admit their still sleep with a teddy bear. Why not snuggle up with a plush piece of bacon?

For this edition of bacon love Friday, here are some of our favourite bacon toys on the market right now. Continue reading this article…

When I was a little kid, there was one particular dinner that my mom would make that made me more excited than anything else: bacon and eggs. Every once in a while, after a particularly long day at the office, picking me up from badminton or dance class and collecting my brother from the park where he was running around with his friends, she would announce that we were having “breakfast for dinner.” There was something fun, something subtly subversive about eating something traditionally served on a late weekend morning on a Tuesday evening instead. As we enjoyed our sunny side up eggs, buttery toast and crispy rashers of bacon, it always seemed that we were somehow getting away with something.

In honour of that fond childhood memory, for this week’s Bacon Love Friday I thought we wold look at some slightly more grown up and sophisticated ways to have breakfast (and bacon!) for dinner, while still getting to enjoy that classic pair of bacon and eggs. Continue reading this article…

Spring has come very early to a lot of North America, and if you are anything like me you are absolutely loving it. If global warming means that I get to relax on a patio with a beer in March, then I am hard pressed to complain. The unseasonable warmth has gotten a lot of people thinking about summer a little earlier than usually, and in addition to putting away all of our sweaters and starting to get into bikini shape, thinking about summer means thinking about barbeque.

While most picture bacon sizzling away in a pan, this King of Meats also works wonders smoking on a hot grill. In honour of the heat and the happiness that has come with us, for this Bacon Love Friday I thought I would pass on some of my favourite ways to grill bacon. Continue reading this article…

Even I have to admit that, ever now and again, I get a craving for a vegetable. If only to fend off the scurvy, we all have to take a break from wrapping bacon around various other delicious meats and starches and snack on something fresh and leafy. With spring just around the corner too, our grocery stores and farmer’s markets are starting to fill up with beautiful fresh produce, and after a cold winter devoted to eating a lot of comfort food, something fresh and clean can be just what you need to get the pep back in your step.

Just because you’re in the mood to have a salad doesn’t mean you have to forgo the bacon. There is a long an illustrious tradition of adding bacon to salad as a delicious topping. But what if you don’t want to go the traditional route and just scatter some delightful bacon but crumbles over your lettuce leaves? For this edition of Bacon Love Friday, we’re going to look at some new and novel ways to get more bacon into your spring salads. Continue reading this article…

While working in the incredibly awesome field of bacon promotion (I love my job), you develop a certain level of experience that makes most things merely very exciting instead of mind-blowing and life-changing. For example, when a fast-food chain recently announced that they were selling bacon milkshakes for a limited time, most people were over the moon with bacon-love and excitement. For those of us at the Republic of Bacon, however, it was a great announcement and we were happy to see bacon getting more mainstream love, but we’d all had, and been writing about, bacon milkshakes before. We are ahead of the bacon curve, and so it can be hard to get as worked up about things as the general bacon-loving population. We’ve become the hipsters of bacon.

However, every once in a while, something floats across my bacon radar that changes everything. A completely new idea of product emerges from the depths of someone’s kitchen or the internet, and I find myself as excited as I was the first time I took my first bite of a bacon explosion. I rekindle that first love I had for bacon. Today, I have found something that gave me that feeling again. Continue reading this article…

First and foremost, let’s be clear: bacon goes with everything. There are the obvious pairings, of course: the classic bacon and egg breakfast, the timeless beauty of a bacon and tomato sandwich, the perfection that is a bacon cheeseburger. But as bacon’s popularity has exploded in the past few years, more daring chefs have proven that we need not stop at these tried-and-trusted combination, or even only think of bacon as a savoury food. With bacon being combined into milkshakes, shaped into sushi, and even drizzled with chocolate. With no end in sight to the exciting bacon combinations, sometimes a bacon lover can spend all of their time trying new and novel bacon dishes.

Every once in a while, however, you have to return to the old standbys, those traditional bacon dishes that made you fall in love with its smoky saltiness to begin with. In honour of one of my favourite combinations, for this edition of Bacon Love Friday we’re going to look at the classic combo of bacon and potatoes. Anyone who has had a baked potato loaded with butter, sour cream, bacon and chives knows this is one of the best things in the entire world. Continue reading this article…

Even though Valentine’s Day officially happened earlier in the week – which means all that delicious heart-shaped chocolate is now on sale! – love is sill in the air here at the Republic of Bacon. February is still sprinkling it’s magic love dust all over it, and cupid’s arrows are a-flying. Maybe it’s spring being right around the corner that has been making us feel so frisky, but whatever the cause, we are feeling gosh-darn romantic.

It’s a well known fact that bacon and romance go hand in hand. There are innumerable ways to show your bacon-loving sweetie that you care about them, from bacon-wrapped treats that make up a dreamy dinner for two to grander gestures like bacon roses or even a stunning bacon weave. But what about the ultimate romantic gesture? What if you want to propose with bacon?

For this Bacon Love Friday, here are some great way that you can pop the question with bacon at your side! Continue reading this article…

While it is true that most of our energy here at the Republic of Bacon goes to talking about the edible and delicious form on this product, we also have plenty of room in our hearts for everything called bacon. Take, for instance, the actor Kevin Bacon. We love playing Sex Degrees of Kevin Bacon on long car trips, and have been known to organize Kevin Bacon film festivals in our living rooms where we serve only the finest bacon snacks.

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As it turns out, Kevin Bacon has something to celebrate: the prolific actor has recently been added to the cast of a new TV serial killer drama! The dashing Bacon will play the heroic lead. We can’t wait! In celebration of this terrific bacon news, we thought we’d dedicate today’s edition of Bacon Love Friday to all our favourite Kevin Bacon films. Continue reading this article…

As professional admirers of bacon, we appreciate that there are many fine ways to enjoy this magical foodstuff. Eating it, for example, is the logical first step. We take great pleasure here at the Republic of Bacon in bringing you all of the very finest bacon recipes so that you can make your own bacon delicacies at home. We also love telling you where you can buy great bacon dishes and products from other chefs and artisans. But sometimes, merely eating bacon isn’t enough. Sometimes bacon-lovers are inspired to express their feelings in the form of art – and, specifically, through the medium of song.

This post is for everyone who loves bacon enough to have a bacon playlist on their iPod, for all those folks like us who have made a bacon sandwich so delicious they just had to serenade it before it could be consumed. For today’s edition of Bacon Love Friday, we’re sharing with you some of the best songs and albums that are about, and that make reference to, out beloved bacon! Continue reading this article…