Bringing Home the Bacon

Posted on November 6, 2008 by Michele Cheplic

If you not only bring home the bacon, but also are responsible for cooking it up, then you might find the following recipes quite helpful. One Christmas my dad was gifted with 15 pounds of fresh bacon as a thank you from a guy he helped at the office. For weeks we ate bacon for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Once the pig product was gone I took a break from bacon… for about 12 years. I’m not kidding. I swore off bacon until well after I graduated from college. To this day I rarely, if ever, eat bacon. However, that … Continue reading →

Romans Pants

Posted on July 17, 2007 by Mary Ann Romans

I named this recipe Romans Pants for two reasons. The first is because I put this together pretty much by the seat of my pants when we were running late for a concert and needed a quick dinner. The bonus of this recipe, is that it can very easily be taken along with you to eat “on the way.” The other reason for the name is that, although the tastes are quite different, it reminds me of a classic ethnic phenomena called “Saint Joseph’s Pants,” a sort of pastry that is usually served on the feast of Saint Joseph in … Continue reading →