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National Bacon Lovers Day 2025
Even though it’s the middle of August and it’s National Bacon Lovers Day, I’m ever so grateful that the weather isn’t 🥓sizzling🥓 for once…
🥓 Qualities 🥓
I think we love bacon because it has all the qualities of an amazing sensory experience. When we cook it, the sizzling sound is so appetizing, the aroma is maddening, the crunch of the texture is so gratifying and the taste delivers every time. ~Alex Guarnaschelli
There’s something heartwarming about the smell of bacon with your breakfast.
Waking up to that savory aroma alongside brewing coffee and scrambled eggs makes your morning something special.
Whether it’s in your kitchen at home or outside your tent at a campsite, bacon automatically makes the whole experience homey.
But bacon isn’t just for breakfast.
The crisp, salty punch of bacon on a double cheeseburger brings the classic lunch favorite up several notches.
Some people not only add bacon, but add sauce and caramelized onions to make a basic favorite into a sumptuous midday feast.
And yet, we’re still not done with the potential for tasty bacon in your day.
Picture, if you will, a beautifully seared filet mignon wrapped with bacon. 😘🤏🥩🥓
This is a marvelous way to improve what is already phenomenal.
Truly, you can eat bacon from dawn to dusk and never get bored of it.
Well, I don’t know about you but I certainly can.
🥓 Recipes 🥓
12 Bacon Recipes That Are Guaranteed to Make Any Day Better!
Okay, not a fan of the music and text style of videos, but the stuff depicted looks incredibly delicious.
Woven bacon bowl? That has some serious potential beyond the au gratin potato filling.
I can see using bacon bowls for green salad, pork fried rice, pasta salad or even a serving of steamed vegetables.
The bacon-wrapped pinwheels also look promising, but the basic platform of thick-cut bacon being rolled around some kind of filling has a lot of promise.
Cinnamon rolls with a stealth bacon center? Amazing! That’s one I definitely want to try.
The bacon double cheeseburger in the form of a Beef Wellington is utterly wild.
I wouldn’t have thought of a bacon double cheeseburger and pigs in a blanket hybrid. Absolutely genius.
Pan-seared scallops wrapped in bacon? Astounding.
Jalapeño popper cake? I’d try it, but it’s more in Connor and Allan’s lane.
The breakfast thing looks incredible, too. There are a ton of excellent (albeit silent) recipes in that video.
Give it a watch and see which bacon treats appeal to you most; maybe the bacon bourbon cookies?
🥓 Put A 🍩 Doughnut 🍩 In It 🥓
You pretty much can’t get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you’d be good to go. ~Hillary Scott
Great googly-moogly! Bacon + Whiskey + Doughnuts?
Look, if the Bacon Bourbon Cookie in the last video looked tantalizing, just wait ’til you see these Maple Bacon Doughnuts…
Homemade Maple Bacon Doughnuts | Sally’s Baking
Okay, so she didn’t add any Bourbon, but I’m sure you can toss a splash into the icing to give it a little more flavor.
It’s simply phenomenal the things people come up with. What’s even more phenomenal is that you can find someone who has already done it for you at a bakery.
Maybe, anyway. You might find these at a bakery in season. If not, you can put in a request. Failing that, 👆there’s the recipe…
On the other hand, 👇here’s a recipe for writing productivity.
Why Pantsing Your Novel Isn’t the Problem (and What Is)
As I’ve said before, I am primarily a “pantser”. I am essentially transcribing the movie that’s playing in my head.
For some people, “pantsing” is just making it up as you go along. I’ve tried that and it tends to leave me painted into corners.
What helps me is to set up some waypoints, some fixed events that the story can lead up to and reverberate from.
When writing my Holiday Season Serial Romances, I tend to make use of waypoints to ensure that I get through the story in the time allotted.
This year’s story will consist of 39 episodes wrapped in an intro on Thanksgiving and an outro on Epiphany. That’s the holiday season.
With this target of 39, I’ll map out some waypoints for the story to ensure that I tell an entire story: beginning, middle, end.
I also want to ensure it’s not a story I’ve told before.
One of the big complaints levelled at Hallmark-style Christmas romance movies is that they’re formulaic, repetitive, same-story-switch-hats situations.
I don’t want to do that. I’m fairly certain I haven’t done that with any of the previous Holiday Season Serial Romances so far.
There are some tropes to adhere to and some to at least pay passing tribute to.
I’m not as slavish to that formula as one of the many movies spinning during the holidays, but I do my best to hang some tinsel and mistletoe on the whole thing.
What I have been doing since the second story is to set up some threads of interconnectivity.
There are shared characters, follow-up storylines, recurring locales and the basics of Christmas in rural Pennswald with at least a smattering of Sentinels.
Even with this basic formula, I don’t think I’ve gotten repetitive yet and hope not to anytime soon.
God willing, I’ll manage to keep the stories as fresh and savory as 🍁🥓🍩🍩 for my readers to enjoy.
That’s all for today. See you back on Saturday for 🤓 nerds 🤓…