Guacamole-stuffed tomato cups with avocado, green chiles, onion, and lemon juice, topped with crumbled bacon on a bed of lettuce. A fresh Mexican-inspired appetizer salad.
Bacon and Swiss cheese breakfast strata with layered bread, crumbled bacon, onions, and a custardy egg-milk mixture. Make it the night before and bake in the morning.
Classic Caesar salad for two with raw egg yolk dressing, anchovies, capers, bacon bits, and Parmesan. Made from scratch tableside in under 15 minutes.
Clam and Corn Chowder with Bacon and Potatoes recipe
Tropical meatloaf with mashed banana, bacon lattice, and orange marmalade glaze. The banana adds moisture and a subtle sweetness you won't expect in a savory loaf.
Rumaki wraps bacon around chicken liver and water chestnut, then broils until crisp. The classic 1960s tiki-bar appetizer that deserves a comeback.
Oven barbecued salmon stuffs sockeye fillets with lemon, onion, and bacon, then bakes them in foil under a sweet ketchup-corn-syrup glaze. Smoky-sweet salmon supper, no grill required.
Skewered fish with bacon, mushrooms, onions, and cherry tomatoes, grilled and served with a homemade honey-mustard sauce made from scratch with egg yolk and tarragon vinegar.
Stuffed veal breast with an herb filling of bacon, mushrooms, ground beef, dill, and tarragon, roasted in a Dutch oven with a sour cream pan gravy. A classic German Sunday roast.
Cool cucumber sandwich on toast with crispy bacon, tomato, and Italian dressing. A quick no-cook lunch ready in 5 minutes with just 5 ingredients.
Grilled portobello mushroom salad with baby greens, bacon, Roquefort, and a honey-balsamic vinaigrette. A steakhouse-style main-course salad that leans on marinated mushroom caps as a meat substitute.
Massive fire camp chili recipe scaled to feed 1,200 people. Pinto beans, ground beef, bacon, jalapenos, and chili powder simmered for 6 hours over an open fire. A true crowd feeder.
BLT burritos wrap crispy bacon, fresh tomatoes, shredded lettuce, and mayo in warm flour tortillas. A no-cook lunch ready in 10 minutes that combines two classics into one handheld meal.
Roasted pork shoulder on sauerkraut with juniper berries, grated apples, white wine, and bay leaves. A hearty German-style pork and kraut dish with deep, rustic flavor.
Chicken breasts baked low and slow over chipped beef with a creamy mushroom soup and sour cream sauce, dotted with bacon. A retro casserole classic that practically cooks itself.
Classic Irish breakfast plate with crispy rashers, sausage links, fried eggs, and grilled tomato. A pub-style fry-up ready in under 30 minutes.