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Armed with Bacon Salt, I feel a Boeuf Bourguignon coming on.

20th
Oct. × ’09

Thanks to Amazon, friendly neighbourhood everywhere market, I now have Bacon Salt in my personal arsenal.
I’m sad to report that a taste from the jar offers a flavor shockingly similar to Bac-Os, which is disappointing to say the least. But I am willing to give it a real shot, in a recipe, in heat, [...]

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Sigh. There *is* still turkey “bacon.”

11th
Oct. × ’09

I bumped into a friend/reader yesterday who asked me, completely sincerely, why I don’t try turkey bacon in place of the real thing.
There is so much truth to be told on this subject, but underneath it all, I truly never thought of it because I don’t think of turkey bacon as food, despite the fact [...]

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Poulet Rôti – Roast chicken, now with special sauce!

24th
Aug. × ’09

If I used subtitles, this one would read, “The hardest damned chicken I’ve ever roasted.”
But then, it was also the most delicious, and probably the most fattening, so there you go.
One of the first things this recipe calls for me to do is slather the salted inside of my chicken with a Tbsp of butter, [...]

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