Forgive me father, for it’s been awhile since I’ve posted a Bacon! Bacon! Bacon! (Saturdays for breakfast…) post. Don’t worry. I’ve still be eating bacon weekly; I just haven’t been sharing it. Oh the blasphemy!

This week, the BF and I had the pleasure of attending Yelp‘s Taste of Georgetown party, which was a party thrown to highlight restaurants and breweries located in the oldest part of Seattle – Georgetown. (Apparently there’s quite a few associated ghost stories here… Woooo. Spoooky). The party was located in the old Rainier Brewery, and was waaayyy beyond any expectations I had… free beer, free cocktails, tables with free goodies such as handmade grapefruit soap, gourmet caramel corn (raspberry champagne & Kahlua white chocolate), pulled pork sandwiches (my last dying wish), garlic bread, sandwiches, polenta & balsamic reduction with apples, a cupcake tower (blueberry pie, pineapple upside down cake, red velvet and more)! Besides the fact that free booze is A-m-A-zing, the food rocked too. To top it off, there was a performance from fire dancers. We had a glorious time. Free is always the best party in THE.RECESSION. But you know what the absolute best part of the shindig was? You know it’s coming…

BACON made a special performance.

But this wasn’t just any Bacon Man – this was the Bacon (Salt) Man! If you’re not a bacon fiend like me, you might not know that there’s Bacon Salt and Baconnaise. Both products are made from a local Seattle company, and did I mention Bakon Vodka is too! Us Seattlelites, we love our bacon. Anywhoosit, not only was the Bacon (Salt) Man giving away packets of Bacon Salt, which I took like 429, but he also had limited tubes of BACON CHAPSTICK.

That’s right folks. Bacon chapstick to slather on your lips in all it’s bacon fatty glory. And guess what? I GOT THE LAST TUBE!! I’m coveting this thing like it’s the last drop of water in the dessert. Now the BF and I can just slather our lips with bacon grease, eat bacon and then make out, swapping bacon gloriousness. (Did that gross you out?)

Happy Bacon Saturday friends! Hope you get to slather your insides with bacon grease sometime this week! Stay tuned next week (or yah know, two months from now since I’m super consistent with my series posts), I have a super duper awesome bacon recipe that a friend sent me. It might be the most fabulous thing I’ve ever laid my eyes on!

Currently Feeling: Major procrastination. It’s Saturday! I don’t want to go run. When will all this hating stop?
Currently Anticipating: A mini appetizer and wine party at my place tonight before heading to Bestie’s birthday dinner!
Currently Loving: Flatout bread. They’re only 90 calories, and you can make pizzas, paninis, wraps – amazing!

GOOD MORning! It’s that time of the week again – Bacon for Saturday morning breakfast! Remember that post a couple weeks ago where I ridiculed my bacon-obsessed boyfriend for his bacon tuna confession?! Well, I had enough of you crazy bacon loving readers tell me that it’s actually good, and I should try it. So what did I do – no challenge goes undone! I searched for a bacon tuna recipe, but realized I didn’t have much around the house, was starved and too lazy to go to the grocery store to whip up something fancy. So I opted for the easy peasy bacon tuna melt panini that I found on this lovely blog (with a few Je twists, of course). I’m calling it…

I started with whipping up some tuna (two pickles per can. I like high pickle to tuna ratio). I then took a whole wheat hot dog bun from Trader Joe’s (because I refuse to put refined carbs in my mouth, well, unless it’s pizza or mac and cheese, or a cheeseburger. Argh. Nevermind. I try to eat complex carbs, and these are great cause they’re hot dog buns that can double as sandwich hoagies). Then I spread a little mayo on the buns. (Buns. Haha.).

Next I added the tuna, some cheese (orange) and two pieces of bacon. I poured a little olive oil in a frying pan and carefully grilled that sandwich that way since I don’t have a panini press. I got the idea from this great chart that tells you how to create paninis with different appliances around the house.

After a minute or so on each side, I had a bacon tuna perfection!

And I’m not just saying this for the ratings… or shits and giggles… it was GOOD. I am now a complete bacon tuna convert. Dammit! I hate it when I’m wrong. I loved it so much that I’ll definitely be exploring a few more tuna bacon concoctions. (Just don’t tell my boyfriend).

Good morning lovely blog readers! Happy bacon Saturdays! I’m sure the majority of you fabulous Internet-savvy peeps have heard of This is why you’re fat blog. But, JUST IN CASE you haven’t, I thought I’d have to share it here for my bacon series. This is why you’re fat is a site that posts pics people send in of the fattiest, grossest foods and meals. Basically – why American is fat. Nearly every one of these special fatty recipes include bacon. I’m not joking – probably 90 percent of them. So you can only imagine how much I love it. Is it wrong that I look at most of the pics (with bacon) and say, “YUM!” This site is like a bacon-lovers orgasm. Here are some of my most recent favs:

The Clogger
(Layers of scalloped potatoes and cheese wrapped in bacon.) Um, who doesn’t love scalloped potatoes? Cheese, carbs AND bacon? YES PLEASE!

The Pattie LaBurger
(A triple bacon cheeseburger with deep fried patties as buns.) Yes – you read that correctly. DEEP.FRIED.PATTIES.AS.BUNS. Who needs a bun when you can just fry up a couple hamburger patties? That’s like some MacGyver shiz.

Bacon Crust Pizza with Bacon
Screw cheese-filled crust. Throw some bacon in there! And then better yet, top it with bacon, bacon and more cheese, followed by cheesy bacon!

Potachos
(Thick potato chips covered with cheddar, bacon, tomatoes, onions, ketchup, chives and sour cream.) I’m a sucker for potato chips AND bacon – put the two together, and I might actually start to believe in a heaven and a God.

Breakfast Sushi
(Bacon, egg, hash browns and rice rolled into sushi.) Don’t think for a minute that I’m not really going to try this out. Breakfast sushi with bacon = genius. I would marry the person who came up with this.

And last but certainly not least…

The Bacone
(A bacon cone filled with scrambled eggs and country gravy topped with a biscuit.) FILLED with country gravy? This is seriously disgusting, genius and delicious looking all at the same time. I bet the gravy just oozes out the sides and down your cheeks when you bite into it. YUM.

Happy Bacon Saturdays my lovely friends. Enjoy your weekend! (P.S. Today is my UnBirthday! A very merry unbirthday to me, TO ME!)

Last week, I put my obsession love for bacon in a little perspective for you…

This week, I’m going to put my boyfriend’s obsession love for bacon in perspective for you. Perhaps set the stage a little bit about why I have these Saturday bacon posts.

This week I was hanging out at his house, and boy oh boy were his cupboards BARE.

Me: BF, you need to go grocery shopping! There’s nothing here. This is like the saddest fridge I’ve seen.
Him: What?! There’s stuff to eat! There’s soups and pastas. And waffles. And bacon.
Me: Soups? There’s only that crappy chicken and stars soup from Campbell’s. Seriously. There’s nothing here for dinner. What the hec are you eating??
Him: I don’t know. Yesterday I made a bacon tuna sandwich.
Me: A WHAT?!
Him: A bacon tuna sandwich.
Me: Are you kidding me? You have to be joking. Bacon? And TUNA? That’s disgusting. I’ve never heard of everyone ever pairing bacon with tuna.
Him: *Sheepishly* What? It was like a BLT, but just a B… uh, T.
Me: BF, that’s really weird. I don’t ever want a B.T. sandwich.

Not even I like bacon THAT much. Bacon and tuna?? No thank you.

This might put my obsession love for bacon in a little perspective for you…

This week I was pinching pennies to make it to payday without going grocery shopping. This is usually when your cupboards get down to a can of green beans, a bag of semisweet chocolate chips and that box of Tuna Helper that never really looks good enough to eat. Read: I think I’d rather starve than eat Tuna Helper.

Anywhoosit. I was so desperate for something savory and bacon-related at work this week, (I eat a breakfast sandwich every morning, usually with Canadian BACON, but was out), that I created my own little concoction with leftovers I found in my lunchbag at work.

1 half of a Thomas’ Light English muffin
1 Laughing Cow cheese wedge
1 generous shake of bacon bits

=

The most ghetto bacon sandwich EVER created:

Thank God I have bacon bits. I mean, WHAT.would.I. have done?!

This week, in all bacon-related news, the BF received the first month’s shipment from his Bacon of the Month club. Along with two pounds of bacon, he received a Bacon is Meat Candy shirt and a bacon air freshener. It’s remaining to see if he’ll actually wear this shirt in public or if the air freshener actually smells like bacon. I’ll report back on both items.

Saturday morning (for breakfast, go figure), we cracked open one of the one-pound packages – Honey BBQ Rubbed bacon from Boss Hog.

I’d love to tell you that it was amazing, to-die-for and you should all run out and sign up for the club immediately. However, the bacon was so salty I couldn’t finish it. COULDN’T FINISH MY BACON. That is something that’s never happened to me in my entire life. And the “hickory smoked” flavor tasted like it’d been sitting in a bonfire for three days. I could smell the smoked scent in my hair or on my skin for all of Sunday. Conclusion: I’m not a fan of hickory smoked bacon. Hopefully the other packages will be better…

On the agenda for next weekend: Trying Bakon Vodka. The first and only manufactured bacon vodka out there, that is by all luck, only available in Seattle and launched last week! I’m on a personal mission to buy a bottle and try out some cocktails to share here with all of you.

Stay tuned for updates here!

After a one-week hiatus because I was moving, Bacon! Bacon! Bacon! (Saturdays for breakfast…) has returned – just in time for the birthday addition (no, not the H1N1 edition, I refuse to utter those words on my blog).

As most of you know because of the lovely boob cake creation I shared this week, Thursday was my boyfriend’s birthday. And because we’re bound by bacon love – I was sure to include a lot of bacon in his birthday gift. Among other things, I gifted him with a Bacon of the Month membership because, really, what is greater than receiving some greasy swine every month in the mail?

And, I threw in some bacon-flavored toothpicks and breakfast floss (bacon floss included), all wrapped up in neat little bacon wrapping paper.

I think we’re becoming bacon obsessed together. Bacon love. It’s a good thing we’re not fat (yet), otherwise it’d be fatty bacon love. And nothing’s worse than that.

Ever heard of Passion Parties or Pure Romance? They’re companies that allow women to host sex toy parties, in the comfort of their friends and home, where products can be tasted and tested. I threw one sometime last year, and during, they passed lube and various tingly lotions around in flavors like vanilla frosting, apple pie and strawberry cheesecake. Sugar, sugar and more sugar. Now, if they would have given me something to choose from that’s a little more savory…like baconlube™…”a delicious personal lubricant designed to “keep it sizzlin,’” well, then that’s a little more something I can wrap my hand around! Er, head. Have your bacon and lick it too!

So during last Saturday’s bacon series, “Yo Quero Bacon! [Part I]” I talked about bacon-wrapped hot dogs at a stand in Sayulita, Mexico. Unfortunately, we didn’t get a chance to make it to Sayulita – it was on the long list, but ended up being the one and only to-do that we cut. I’m not sure if that’s good or bad cause I’m still pretty sure I would have died from some sort of dysentery or veneral disease from the street meat.

But, I stayed true to my bacon-loving self and really did manage to eat God’s gift to the Earth EVERY DAY while on vacation. If that isn’t the makings of a glorious vacation, I don’t know what is. The highlight of our quest to eat bacon every day, however, definitely came on the last night when the BF ordered Mummy Shrimp from a restaurant we were at on the beach. What is Mummy Shrimp, you ask? Hrmm. Well, bacon for a true fat kid such as my boyfriend!

Jumbo prawns + deep fried + stuffed with ham and cheddar cheese + wrapped in bacon + dipped in 1000 Island Dressing.

DIG IN!

Picture me eating bacon in Mexico on the beach. Cause that’s what I’m doing right now – ordering the shiz (Read: pounds) out of some bacon while on vacation. Cause vacation calories don’t count ya’ll! And I did not count every calorie and pump iron six days a week for a long stretch of time before my vacation, to watch what I eat while ON vacation. Like duh.

So, in honor of my Mexican vacation – I’ve put together a little Mexican-inspired bacon post. Yo Quero Bacon! [Part I]

In addition to eating bacon every morning for breakfast in the cabana with a Tequila Sunrise, I’m going on a personal mission to try a bacon-wrapped hot dog in Sayulita, a small town about an hour north of Puerto Vallarta that is famous for its surfing. Every person I talked to prior to the vaca told me the town was more than worth a day trip. So Baby Daddy and I will be visiting Sayulita some time this week – and oh how convenient, I found a blog with a post about bacon-wrapped hot dogs that a stand sells in Sayulita:

[Image courtesy of Mo Frechette on ZMO Journal]

[Image courtesy of Mo Frechette on ZMO Journal]

[Image courtesy of Mo Frechette on ZMO Journal]

In his post, Mo talked about the “Sayulita style” of eating the bacon-wrapped hot dog, which is with mustard, ketchup, sour cream, pineapple, mango and relish. You better believe I’m going to hunt one of these suckers down and report back to you on the blog next week for Yo Quero Bacon! [Part II]. That is if I don’t die from some sort of Mexican meat dysentery first. Wish me luck!