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by gansie

Real Men Do Eat Quiche*

Editors Note: Bad Editor! ES friend Aaron sent this post a wicked long time ago. But, I’ve been lazy on downloading the pic to go with it. Here’s what he made for our breakfast-for-dinner Project Runway party. And note his squash confusion too!

This weekend I celebrated my 22nd birthday and went to Rehoboth Beach with my boyfriend. We had a yummy brunch at Blue Moon where I ordered the Individual Breakfast Tart.

It made my mouth feel so good, I immediately thought I must have done something wrong and be punished.

I have this great group of friends that gets together weekly to watch Project Runway and share food.

So for this week’s breakfast themed Project Runway Dinner, I knew what I had to do: make the tart!

I enlisted the help of my housemate, Kashuo.

We went to the grocery and ran into Liza, who helped me find the parchment paper.

I could not for the life of me find zucchinis, even though I walked right past them a bunch of times, but they were labeled green squashes. And I thought that might be something different. But they’re really not. I was like: damn, those green squashes look so much like zucchinis!

I asked a young man stocking shelves wearing his supermarket employee uniform if he could help me find pastry shells. He looked at me like I had asked for a thesis, a pint of blood, his Social Security number, and his first-adopted son!

Turns out a tart and a quiche are basically the same thing.

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Who Cooked It Better? The Bacon Cocktail

Anyone can eat bacon for breakfast, but it takes a real man to drink bacon for breakfast. No, we’re not talking about licking bacon grease from the pan (actually, you might want to reserve some of that to rim the edge of the glass with). No kidding, folks–it’s the bacon cocktail.

This whole crazy thing started, as many crazy things do, in Vegas, at the Double Down Saloon. They claim to have invented the bacon martini: Bacon-infused vodka, Tabasco, olive juice, a lil bacon grease for the edge, and of course, a slice of bacon.

If you like your drunk breakfast more on the sweet side, head to the Capitol Club in Seattle. The vodka here is infused with candied bacon and mixed with Godiva chocolate liquor and splash of cream. Intense.

Over in New York, ultra-hip bar PDT whips up some bacon-infused bourbon, and mixes it with maple syrup, bitters, and a twist of orange to make their Benton’s Old Fashioned. Confused? Grub Street has a video of how it’s done.

Photos: CHOW, sparktography, dansays

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by BS

You Had Me at Duck Bacon

So my new place in Brooklyn is a stone’s throw from Park Slope, the yummy mummy capital of the world, and the epicenter of vegan cupcakes, organic everything, $12 coffees, etc…the obvious first order of business was whether to join the Park Slope Food Co-op. There’s plenty of info around the internets about how awesome and awful this place is, so I’ll just summarize. Pros: Quality yuppie food at prices lower than Whole Paycheck; Cons: Soviet-style work policy.

After sitting through an indoctrination orientation session, I browsed through the store. While I was somewhat taken with the organic asparagus from Argentina and no-peel Kiwi berries, it wasn’t until I hit the meat section that I knew I was joining. Bison steaks, grass-fed filet mignon, salami, salami, salami, and OMG, WTF is duck bacon?

One, Two, Three, BACON!

The great philosopher Francis Bacon once said, “knowledge is power.” So you need to know that there is indeed such a thing as bacon that can be cooked in the microwave AND be ready in THREE seconds! Ok, well maybe not three seconds, but it only takes a minute at the most! And this Three Second Bacon is so tasty and wonderful that it has gotten approval from resident food snob BS!

I actually prefer this pre-cooked Three Second Bacon to real bacon not only because of the time saving/easy factor, but also because it is never too fatty or not crispy enough.

The best part of the Three Second Bacon is it allows you to add bacon to a salad, sandwich or anything you want without the hassle!

*** For all of you skeptics who don’t believe Three Second Bacon actually exists, check the deli meat section of the grocery store.

For a quick and de-lish bagel sandwich recipe, see after the jump!

Endless Bacon

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Who Cooked It Better? The Bacon Cocktail

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You Had Me at Duck Bacon

One, Two, Three, BACON!