Hey! It’s “National Bacon Lovers Day!”
Well, imagine my surprise and delight to discover that today is the day that bacon lovers everywhere do this!
Yes, I did it too: I made a sandwich to celebrate this special day, and I’m going to share it, along with lots of great bacon trivia – let’s get going with my bacon and egg iPhone cover and see where we go from there!
Word Origins:
Here’s the most important thing I learned today: the word “bacon” derives from the Germanic root bakko (meaning the back of the pig), which evolved into the 12th-century English word bacoun.
Now, how long as bacon been a part of our lives?
History:
Bacon is one of the world’s oldest processed meats, dating back to roughly 1500 BCE. That’s a long long time!
And what about some of the phrases that use bacon?
“Bringing Home the Bacon”:
In 12th-century England, churches offered a side of bacon (a flitch) to any husband who could swear before God that he had not argued with his wife for a year and a day!
And what about this wild fact?
The First Meal on the Moon!
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin ate bacon cubes as part of their very first meal on the lunar surface!
With so much bacon trivia to digest, let’s do it over lunch!
We all love “BLY’s”, the bacon/lettuce/tomato combo – but with lettuce an “iffy” thing to eat in the US right now thanks to the egregious failure of our current administration to govern, let’s do my favorite substitute: Kewpie Mayo!
OK, with that at the ready, all I needed were the bacon and tomatoes, and guess what? Another incredible and timely gift was given to us!
This bounty of fresh tomatoes and yellow zucchini is from Pam Starr, who is not only a preeminent winemaker and owner of Crocker & Starr, but she has her own vegetable garden as well…
Alex already had one sliced on a piece of toast with a bit of olive oil drizzled on top and some sea salt flakes…so now, lets make recipes using both!
The first part of this recipe smelled great – I am going to fry up some bacon – easy, fun and with a special “cameo” from a French Laundry tomato!
Ahhh…bacon ready to go for the sandwich – now to make a roll for it:
I used a small, soft baguette roll, put some French butter on one side and then toasted it in a frying pan:
Now, time to assemble!
Here’s the entire process including a healthy dose of Kewpie Mayo!
And there you go:
A “Bacon Kewpie Mayo and Fresh Napa Valley Tomato” Sandwich!
First, Pam’s tomatoes were heavenly: grown in wine country, they have so much juicy flavor, it actually is embarrassing the flavorless tomatoes we get in grocery stores:
Obviously, the bacon tasted like really good bacon, and the Kewpie Mayo is simply to die for – what a great bite!
Now, as good as this was, there was no room on it for the Zucchini, so I came up with this instead:
“Zoodles!”
Yes, I will run these yellow zucchini through my “zoodle maker”, which as you saw turns them into zucchini noodles…here is the recipe to make them sing!
Back to bacon: here is one of my favorite bacon recipes:
Bacon burritos – with the bacon as the wrap!
See this incredible recipe here:
And remember, Elvis would approve of this recipe – because here is his favorite peanut butter and banana sandwich with a bacon weave as well!
See more of the wildest sandwiches of all time here:
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Bacon and flavoursome tomatoes are something that I struggle to get here and after reading this post I could so eat that burrito and even Elvis’s banana and PB bacon sandwich would go down a treat..shared to twitter or X…Yeah for national bacon day!
Pete, I have the same issue in New York – everything has been harvested while green and then artificially radiated to give color after…verified as how they grow tomatoes in Florida to ship north…so we get them with ZERO flavor..these were a bite of heaven!
Hi John its Carol…lol…I bet they were flavoursome tomatoes are becoming a thing of the past the powers that be seem to be dumbing down our taste buds.