Bacon

Bacon & Onion Tart Recipe

Slices of caramelized onion and bacon on crispy, flaky puff pastry. Serve with a side salad.

Bacon and Cheese Bread

This is a really yummy bread, nice warm with a bowl of soup or a salad.

Bacon and Cheese Clafoutis Recipe

This is like a quiche with no crust.

Bacon and Egg Farfalle Recipe

This is a hearty take on Pasta Carbonara, with peas added to boost the protein and add interest.

Bacon and Egg Salad Recipe

This is a composed salad; arrange it on a platter and supply spoons for people to use in serving themselves. Nice served with a good crusty bread.

Bacon Day

The 30th of December is Bacon Day. It celebrates everyone’s favourite crispy, salty, greasy breakfast meat. Except today, you get to have bacon all day long!

Bacon Drippings, or Bacon Fat, is the fat that comes out of bacon while cooking and collects in the pan. It is a thick fat that is semi-solid at room temperature, and liquid when heated. It has the flavour of the bacon that it came out of. For the most part, you cannot buy it:…

Bacon Press

A bacon press is a heavy, flat weight used to stop bacon from curling when frying.

Baked Gnocchi with Bacon & Blue Cheese

You should probably serve this with something healthy, like a green starter salad. Or, you could just grab a fork and eat the whole darn thing yourself straight out of the pan, it’s that good!

BLT-Day

The 22nd of July is BLT Day. It celebrates Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato (BLT) sandwiches, one of the most popular sandwich combos to come out of the 20th century.

Blue Cheese and Bacon Potato Patties

Very tasty fritters. These are also good even without the cheese in them! You may also wish to try other cheeses.

Brussels Sprout Purée with Chestnuts and Bacon

This is a side-dish that you can make entirely in the microwave, making it ideal for times when your stove is already full-out committed — or just for times when you don’t want any pots or pans wash-up.

Caramelized Brussels Sprouts with Bacon & Walnuts

A hearty, tasty rendition of Brussels Sprouts.

Cauliflower Cheese with Bacon

This is a very hearty vegetable side dish that has everything going for it comfort-food wise: a cheese sauce, bacon, and even buttered bread crumbs on top. You can even make this ahead.

Corn Chowder Recipe

Ever feel like soup, and you have no broth or broth cubes to hand? Here is a quick and easy recipe that is perfect for those cold rainy days.

Drunken Beans Recipe

More like a soup, it’s meant to be served in bowls. Best if made a day ahead of time then reheated for serving.

French Country Beans Recipe

These beans are even better the next day; the recipe reheats well! An ideal make-ahead dish, served along with good bread and red wine. If you have a slow-cooker hanging around, this recipe is a good excuse to haul it out!

Funeral Beans Recipe

A classic North American 1950s dish to make and take to feed a crowd at gatherings. It was dubbed Funeral Beans because it was a stand-by crowd-pleaser for gatherings after funerals.

Green Bean, Bacon and Potato Salad

This is a light tasting potato salad, though the bacon and potato will still satisfy hearty appetites. You can make this ahead and refrigerate it (in fact, the flavours are better made a day or half a day ahead) but as it’s meant to be served warm, bring i