Mike Nowak – Bacon pretzel-wich Ingredients: bacon strips Bleu cheese Field greens Herb butter Homemade pretzel (Bread flour, yeast, water, sugar and bits of bacon)

Howdy, What is it, you ask?  Its a toasted ravioli.  The filling is bacon caramelized shallots, ground pine nuts and an extra creamy brie.  I filled a won ton wrapper, baked it and topped with a dash of olive oil, bacon pieces and pine nuts.  I thought it would be  [Read More]

Meg Rickman – Bacon Bacon Burger, with Cheese Ingredients: Beef 70% lean Bacon Nueskes (pick your flavor) ground or chopped fine(raw) Jarlsberg cheese. or some other mighty strong swiss Brioche Bun Red Onion Good Mustard Bacon strips of a different flavor(cooked)-optional! I don’t have a picture, but imagine a burger  [Read More]

Irene Rivera – Date and Bacon Jam Thumbprint Cookies These delicate cream cheese cookies are studded with bacon and also filled with a sticky, sweet and salty date and bacon jam. ingredients: for jam: pitted whole dates simple syrup chopped crispy bacon cookies: cream cheese unsalted butter sugar all-purpose flour  [Read More]

Joe Ruesewald – Bacon Schnitzel I have prepared my very own bastardization (glorification) of my grandma’s schnitzel. I present to you: Bacon Schnitzel! Ingredients: Schnitzel: 1) Thick cut bacon 2) Bread crumbs 3) Egg 4) Cornstarch (yeah a little sweetness to the salty) 5) Grandma’s schnitzel seasoning blend (she might  [Read More]

Tara Schnaible – Maple Bacon Cream Pie Ingredients: Bacon-Burbon Pie Crust:  Flour, butter, chilled bacon fat, bourbon, water, salt Pie Filling & Topping:  Heavy cream, maple syrup, egg yolks, egg, chopped bacon, nutmeg, vanilla extract, salt Have a great night!

Elizabeth Schuler – Bacon Country Meatloaf This recipe has cumin and coriander from Latin America. It has allspice form Jamaica. It has pastachios from Africa. When finished it reminds me of a terrine from France, though there is not much French about it. Thus, the name… Country Meatloaf. When cold,  [Read More]

Monica Sehgal Sharma – Tandoori Bacon Nachos TANDOORI BACON NACHOS, served on crispy chicken skin chips (photo attached)  ENJOY!!! Description:  Bacon marinated in true tandoori style with yogurt and my special tandoori spice blend for about 2 hours, then oven baked in a hot oven (sorry no clay ovens available!)  [Read More]

Anne Shepherd & Susan Kang – chocolate-covered bacon My friend Susan and I would like to enter a dish in the Amateur Bacon Cook-Off at this year’s Baconfest.  Our dish is a twist on plain old chocolate-covered bacon.  Before dipping the bacon in a blend of semi-sweet and dark chocolate,  [Read More]

Michi Trota – Flourless Bacon & Spiced Chocolate Torte Since I didn’t quite convince you last year with my bacon chocolate caramel bomb cookies, I hope this year I’ve got an offering you can’t refuse. I submit for your consideration: a flourless bacon chocolate torte, coated with a decadent ganache  [Read More]