Even more bacon recipes
December 3, 2008
Recipe: Roasted potato salad
To put it mildly, Test Kitchen manager Noelle Carter has a thing for bacon. This winter, in fact, she wrote a story confessing that one of her favorite Christmas gifts ever was a 6-pound variety pack of the stuff. "Now if that's not true love, I don't know what is," she wrote. The simple fact is bacon does make almost everything taste better, a point Carter pushed to the maximum in the same story with a coffee cake studded with apples and bacon. That was good, but this potato salad was even better. This is far from a one-note recipe. Roasting the potatoes concentrates their earthy flavor, and binding them and the bacon together with mayonnaise spiked with the sharp flavors of capers and red onion is the perfect contrast.
Recipe: Maple bacon biscuits
Breakfast is making a comeback in Southern California restaurants -- even in places you might not expect it. Such as at hip Rustic Canyon in Santa Monica, where pastry chef Zoe Nathan makes these amazing biscuits. Made with a full pound of bacon and 1/2 pound of butter, Times restaurant critic S. Irene Virbila calls them "gloriously crumbly." So successful was the meal that it's been canceled -- not for the usual reasons, but because Nathan and Rustic Canyon owner Josh Loeb are opening up a bakery-cafe two blocks away.
Recipe: Brussels sprouts braised with bacon and chestnuts
Total time: 40 minutes, plus roasting and peeling time for the chestnuts
March 26, 2008
Recipe: Warm salad of black-eyed peas, wilted mustard greens and bacon
Total time: 1 hour, 10 minutes
Recipe: La truffade (potato cake with cheese and bacon)
Total time: 1 hour
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