Donald's Bacon Bytes

We had some friends over for dinner last Saturday and decided to make s’mores out back for dessert. After making a few I started thinking “I wonder how this would taste with bacon?” Not if it would be good, but how good it would be. I mentioned it to my friend sitting next to me and he got excited about the idea. So, I ran into the house with my marshmallow stick, grabbed a piece of bacon, weaved it onto the stick and went back outside to cook it over the fire. If you are going to do this, you gotta cook the bacon over the fire also!

 

This year I decided to do something different for Valentine’s Day. My wife loves bacon. Maybe not as much as I love bacon but it is pretty high up there. So, I decided to make her some bacon roses instead of some real roses that would die soon. How do you make bacon roses you might ask. It was actually pretty easy.

I started out by getting some fake roses from Walmart. They had 2 different types of fake roses. One type didn’t look like they came apart very easy so I opted for the ones that did. If you look closely at the photo of the one still assembled, you can see that the rose bud should just pop off. The other roses didn’t look like this.

To start out making these, turn your oven on and preheat it to 375. While it is preheating, get a mini muffin pan out and line each hole with tin foil. You don’t have to do this but it helped with cleanup when I was done.

Next, lay a piece of bacon out on a place and roll it up starting at the wider end of the bacon. Place it in the muffin pan fat side down.

After you get them all rolled up and in your muffin pan, put the pan in the oven and let it back for about 40 minutes.

After they are done, let them cool a while. Get a vase out and fill it with rocks or marbles or something along those lines. The bacon is going to be a little heavy and it will tip the vase over.

Now, make sure you have all your fake roses disassembled and the pieces sorted out. Discard the rose petals and the orange plastic pieces. Slide the leave piece back onto the stem and push it down a little. Then place a bacon rose on it and put the whole thing into the vase.

As you see from my photo, the bacon is heavy and pulls things down a little. If I had more time and would have thought about it earlier, I would have used some wire cutters and shortened the stems. I also would have used the red ribbon that came with the fake roses and tied the stems together at the top to get them bunched up better.

Pretty simple over all and they tasted good!