{"id":3104,"date":"2009-10-11T11:23:58","date_gmt":"2009-10-11T18:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=3104"},"modified":"2010-01-15T12:08:53","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T20:08:53","slug":"baconfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2009\/10\/11\/baconfest\/","title":{"rendered":"BaconFest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Macaroni and cheese lubricated with bacon fat &#8211; curiously fabulous<\/p>\n<p>Bacon wrapped figs with goat cheese &#8211; sublime joy<\/p>\n<p>Cupcakes with bacon icing &#8211; yes, cupcakes with bacon!<\/p>\n<p>Bacon wrapped \u00a0jalape\u00c3\u00b1o poppers \u00a0&#8211; Powie! Zowie!<\/p>\n<p>Mini bacon bread buns &#8211; one of my contributions!<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bacon-bread.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3107\" title=\"bacon bread\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bacon-bread-200x172.jpg\" alt=\"bacon bread\" width=\"200\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bacon-bread-200x172.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bacon-bread-300x258.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bacon-bread-1024x883.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/bacon-bread.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Italian spiced bacon bread rollup &#8211; mine! got a couple good reviews :-)<\/p>\n<p>Jesse&#8217;s Bacon Wheel Casserole &#8211; as he described it, &#8220;&#8230;just a tuna noodle casserole BUT we use wagon-wheel shaped pasta, AND use bacon instead of tuna.  The idea is that the small pieces of bacon will get lodged between the spokes of the wheel.&#8221;  !! :-)<\/p>\n<p>There were more bacon based finger foods that I consumed that added to the joy of the evening but, alas I forget what they were! Phoey!<\/p>\n<p>Excellent conversation with Susie!<\/p>\n<p>It was startling how within 15 minutes of arrival there was this bacon fueled frenzy of eating and &#8220;om om nom nom om!&#8221; and heated conversation with eye-rolling-back goodness. It&#8217;s weird that it&#8217;s hard to put my finger exactly on why it was so good. It was little like being drunk. It was&#8230; dare I say,<strong> the magic of bacon!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snarkymcf.com\/\">CTP had left a pile of awesome bacon themed buttons<\/a>. CTP is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bacon: The Gateway Meat&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bacon: It&#8217;s what&#8217;s for dinner&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bacon: It&#8217;s what&#8217;s for desert&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;1: Kittens<br \/>\n2: ???<br \/>\n3: Bacon<br \/>\n4: Genitals<br \/>\n5: Safety&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>(If you don&#8217;t get that numbered list, historically, safety was first but it had recently fallen to third. But bacon is the new safety and.. well, it&#8217;s funny, just trust me!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Macaroni and cheese lubricated with bacon fat &#8211; curiously fabulous Bacon wrapped figs with goat cheese &#8211; sublime joy Cupcakes with bacon icing &#8211; yes, cupcakes with bacon! Bacon wrapped \u00a0jalape\u00c3\u00b1o poppers \u00a0&#8211; Powie! Zowie! Mini bacon bread buns &#8211; one of my contributions! Italian spiced bacon bread rollup &#8211; mine! got a couple good [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bread","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3106,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3104\/revisions\/3106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}