Bacon: Cover it in chocolate, and more
I'm crazy about bacon. And I'm not alone. Suggestions keep pouring in for my quest to find 1,001 things to do with bacon -- thanks to everyone who took the time to write. Just when we think we've heard everything, something new comes along. Which brings us to....
No. 13: Cover it in chocolate.
Leslie Cooper, owner of LUCA Chocolate in North Carolina, sent us a small care package including chocolate-covered strips of bacon and bits of bacon covered in chocolate AND caramel. We brought them out into the newsroom, and they were pretty much inhaled.
Clearly, bacon-loving minds think alike: Check out Leslie's blog posting on her inspiration. Covering bacon in chocolate was also suggested to us by John-Bryan Hopkins, who writes the Foodimentary101 blog. (If you follow him on Twitter, he delivers fun daily food facts).
For a few other suggestions, and the rest of the list, click below....
No. 14: Make chocolate cupcakes with bacon cream cheese frosting
No. 15: Get a bacon tattoo (Thanks to colleague and fellow bacon lover Elina Shatkin for finding these last two gems.)
So here's where the list stands:
I have been playing with covering bacon in chocolate, so I so happy to see this made the list. I'll definitely have to try adding caramel! What a great idea.
I have been playing with sprinkling the top with different salts. We have a great store here in Portland, OR that specializes in salt. http://www.atthemeadow.com/shop/ They have over 80 different salts and so far my bacon topped with a smoked salt has gotten the biggest raves.
Posted by: Gayle | December 26, 2008 at 12:00 PM