It's BACON!!
Oct. 16th, 2007 07:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundA night in hog heaven with the Bacon Club
"Nicholson hosts the Bacon Club in her Mission Hill apartment. It's a simple place on the first floor of a triple-decker, with a modest kitchen lit by a makeshift Christmas-light chandelier. A small, friendly, and slightly ramshackle screened-in porch overlooks a backyard full of grape vines.
That's where Nicholson found the leaves for her bacon dolmas. She blanched the leaves and pickled them for a week before stuffing them to bursting with brown rice and bacon. Savory and tart, they are served in a deep bath of rich olive oil and fresh lemon juice.
Almost everything on the table is finger food and going fast - bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with toasted almonds, and bacon-wrapped bananas roasted with curry powder and brown sugar. The bananas are spicy, smoky, sweet, tender, and crisp in the same remarkable mouthful. Hummus with bacon and green and black olives, spread on crostini, is being scooped up quickly by the 10 participants."
Bonus - Recipe of the Day!
Almond-stuffed dates wrapped in bacon
Makes 15
15 dates, pitted
15 whole almonds
5 strips bacon
1. Turn on the broiler. Set a rack on a broiling pan.
2. Cut the bacon strips into thirds. Stuff one almond into each date. Wrap a piece of bacon around each one.
3. Broil the dates for 10 to 12 minutes, turning once, until the bacon is evenly browned. - Karrie-Anne Toews
"Nicholson hosts the Bacon Club in her Mission Hill apartment. It's a simple place on the first floor of a triple-decker, with a modest kitchen lit by a makeshift Christmas-light chandelier. A small, friendly, and slightly ramshackle screened-in porch overlooks a backyard full of grape vines.
That's where Nicholson found the leaves for her bacon dolmas. She blanched the leaves and pickled them for a week before stuffing them to bursting with brown rice and bacon. Savory and tart, they are served in a deep bath of rich olive oil and fresh lemon juice.
Almost everything on the table is finger food and going fast - bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with toasted almonds, and bacon-wrapped bananas roasted with curry powder and brown sugar. The bananas are spicy, smoky, sweet, tender, and crisp in the same remarkable mouthful. Hummus with bacon and green and black olives, spread on crostini, is being scooped up quickly by the 10 participants."
Bonus - Recipe of the Day!
Almond-stuffed dates wrapped in bacon
Makes 15
15 dates, pitted
15 whole almonds
5 strips bacon
1. Turn on the broiler. Set a rack on a broiling pan.
2. Cut the bacon strips into thirds. Stuff one almond into each date. Wrap a piece of bacon around each one.
3. Broil the dates for 10 to 12 minutes, turning once, until the bacon is evenly browned. - Karrie-Anne Toews
