bacontarian

What to bring when you’re invited to a Wine and Fondue party? Well, after making sure the party isn’t a throw back to the wife swapping 70′s, you then need to figure out how to incorporate bacon into an app (not hard). We contemplated just sticking bacon on a fork and dropping it in the fondue oil but, messy, and border line “too-bizarre” for this crowd. So – we settled on Tea Sandwiches… because, well, what is more Wine/Fondue than the addition of Tea Sandwiches (easily one of the sillier things to come out of very silly England). Verdict? Not a bad spread.

BTW: If you don’t drink wine (yah, I’m that backwards) then dress up a bottle of Jack and bring ‘em along. Note, by the end of the party the Jack was gone, everyone was still (just barely) with the wives they brought, but there was still plenty of over priced wine, with complex nose/florals to be had.

Recipe is here.

While Paula Dean‘s southern twang and general demeanor gives me vivid nightmares of all things southern and evil she does use a lot of bacon.

Bacon Chicken Recipe

We made Chicken wrapped bacon last night.

Verdict? Not tofu. Not bBacon. Not bad. Tasted a bit like beef brisket. I’d add even more cayenne the next time around. The chicken dried out a bit by the time the bacon was done… so maybe do this at a higher temperature or par cook the bacon first? This would make a good party app.

Big ‘ol plate of Bacon Chicken