Bacon, Two Ways
Bacon was on sale…good, center cut bacon. What can I say…I had to take advantage. Instead of having an insane amount of bacon in one meal, we broke it up into a couple co-starring roles. The first was an accompaniment to a really interesting concoction.
We had (still have) a ton of lentil tomato soup in the freezer. A really hearty, yummy soup that we happened to make four thousand gallons of the first time around. Instead of just eating as soup again, I rubbed down a couple chicken thighs with a spice rub and let it sit while we were at work, then tossed it in a casserole with the soup. It looked like a big dish full of…well…nothing good.
I baked it at 350 or 400 degrees along with some roasting root vegetables, using my wonderful meat thermometer to know when to pull the chicken for maximum moistness. When it came out of the oven, it looked…well…like a big dish full of baked nothing good.
Where’s the bacon!?! That is what you may be asking. Well…here it comes!
Chop up some bacon, crisp it up and drain almost all of the fat. I had that amazing center cut bacon, so there wasn’t all that much fat in the pan anyway. 
Chopped onion gets sautéed in a thin layer of bacon grease, and then frozen peas (a little too frozen apparently) get added with a little chicken broth and cooked down. I usually make this dish with a little bit of cream or half and half at the end (and usually with Brussels Sprouts), but I had some plain yogurt on hand, so that went in. Not quite as creamy, but added a little tang and a lighter feel to the side dish.
Add the bacon back in at the end and serve with the meal. Bacon in side dishes! Hooray!
Bacon made another appearance at breakfast. This was a huge success. Take note.
Repeat the bacon cooking and onion sautéing above. Fry some tiny diced potatoes in with the onions and toss in a chopped tomato. Take this all out of the pan and lightly scramble eggs to your preference. For a soft scramble, just before the eggs are completely cooked, fold in the veggies and some shredded cheddar cheese. AMAZING breakfast. Thinking about it to write this post makes me want it again!
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