Balsamic Braised Radishes with Leeks and Bacon
This is a great recipe to use with bacon ends too! The onion family ingredient is flexible as well, try it with shallots or red onion as well.
Ingredient: Bacon
Bacon has grown in popularity. It is not just for breakfast anymore. Bacon is used in both sweet and savory applications, below is a photo of bacon going into a batch of chocolate chip cookies!
Bacon comes from our friend the pig. It is a fatty meat from the belly and sides of the pig. Most bacon goes through a salting or curing process, as well as a smoking process. In my opinion, bacon is delicious and we love farm fresh bacon. You will notice a significant difference between fresh local bacon and the bacon packaged in a grocery store. Bacon has a high fat to meat ratio, it is essential for the flavor we all know and love. Save that bacon fat!
The Picture below are bacon ends, rendering down for bacon fat:
Recipes Using Bacon
Savory Bacon Salad
Ok, so it’s cabbage and bacon, with optional onion and garlic. But doesn’t savory bacon salad just sound so much better? It tastes great, bacon and cabbage are as winning of a combo as ham hocks and collard greens. We hope you enjoy the flavors of this dish as much as we do!
Bacon Cheddar Chicken
Looking to add a little more veg to this dish? I suggest chopping some spinach and adding it to the cheddar stuffing. This one may come with a little guilt but we all need a treat now and again.
