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At last weekend's parties, I got a couple of questions about the bacon swizzle sticks from the Party of Pork last summer.
Drunken Sows, bourbon with ginger ale and a swizzle stick of crispy fried bacon.
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gormflaith, my practically perfect apprentice, was the one who suggested the skewer trick.
I got the idea of baking the bacon from Alton Brown's bacon episode: "Place the strips of bacon onto a sheet pan fitted with a rack and place into a cold oven. Turn the oven to 400 degrees F and cook for about 12 to 15 minutes, depending on how crispy you like your bacon. Remove from rack and drain on paper towels. Enjoy."
To make the bacon swizzle sticks, get some ordinary bacon from the grocery store. Cheap, thin bacon is easier for this application than the good stuff. Get some metal skewers, like you'd use for kabobs. Place one end of a single strip of bacon on the tip of a skewer and twirl the skewer to wrap the bacon (overlapping slightly) as far as it goes up the skewer. Don't try to tuck the end in, just trust that fat loves fat. Place bacon and skewer on prepared baking sheet. Repeat until you run out of skewers. Bake. When done, remove from oven. When cool, pick up the non-pointy end of the skewer and with your other hand, gently slide the bacon off the skewer. You will end up with some bacon pieces for a future salad, so buy twice as much bacon as you think you'll need.
Put ginger ale in a glass (we used Blenheim Ginger Ale or Diet Ginger Ale Natural Soda), and shot of bourbon (we used Woodford ), ice (optional), and a swizzle of bacon. If you are very lucky, you can even use the bacon swizzle as a straw.
Drunken Sows, bourbon with ginger ale and a swizzle stick of crispy fried bacon.
gormflaith, my practically perfect apprentice, was the one who suggested the skewer trick. I got the idea of baking the bacon from Alton Brown's bacon episode: "Place the strips of bacon onto a sheet pan fitted with a rack and place into a cold oven. Turn the oven to 400 degrees F and cook for about 12 to 15 minutes, depending on how crispy you like your bacon. Remove from rack and drain on paper towels. Enjoy."
To make the bacon swizzle sticks, get some ordinary bacon from the grocery store. Cheap, thin bacon is easier for this application than the good stuff. Get some metal skewers, like you'd use for kabobs. Place one end of a single strip of bacon on the tip of a skewer and twirl the skewer to wrap the bacon (overlapping slightly) as far as it goes up the skewer. Don't try to tuck the end in, just trust that fat loves fat. Place bacon and skewer on prepared baking sheet. Repeat until you run out of skewers. Bake. When done, remove from oven. When cool, pick up the non-pointy end of the skewer and with your other hand, gently slide the bacon off the skewer. You will end up with some bacon pieces for a future salad, so buy twice as much bacon as you think you'll need.
Put ginger ale in a glass (we used Blenheim Ginger Ale or Diet Ginger Ale Natural Soda), and shot of bourbon (we used Woodford ), ice (optional), and a swizzle of bacon. If you are very lucky, you can even use the bacon swizzle as a straw.
