The Official Bacon Salt Blog

The Weekly Bacon - Post Oscars edition - March 8th, 2010

When The Hurt Locker won Best Picture this weekend, it reminded us of an email we received a couple of years ago from some soldiers that dismantle roadside bombs in Iraq. Their biggest gripe besides the long hours, extremely dangerous work and summer heat? No access to delicious bacon. So we decided to send them some Bacon Salt to put on their MRE's (meals-ready-to-eat) and turned that into something called Operation Bacon Salt. So far, our products have been airlifted into Afghanistan, flown on Apache helicopters, and brought along on top secret missions. This initiative is still going strong, and if you live on a military base in the US, some of our products are likely stocked in your local commissary. Congrats to The Hurt Locker, and thanks to all our troops serving overseas. There will be some delicious meals cooking when you come home, including the ones in this week's Weekly Bacon.

 

Baconnaise Coleslaw II

Ice Berg Lettuce Wedge with Bacon Bleu Cheese Dressing

Bacon Salt Pancakes

Bacon Ranch, Beef and Veggie Skewers

Bacon Ranch Pea Salad

Bacon Salt Pesto and Pesto Butter

Creole Smothered Steak (another great one from Deep South Dish)

Fouliyeh (fava bean and rice salad from Taste of Lebanon)

 

Happy cooking! Be sure to upload your own favorite recipes at www.jdfoods.net/recipe, and share them on Facebook for all the world to see. If you get a featured recipe, you'll get free stuff! Until next time.

Yours in bacon,
Justin & Dave

From Our Bacon Striped Table to Yours!

We find that we're always 150% more efficient when we're working on a bacon striped conference table. Or washing our clothes with bacon-flavored laundry detergent. Which is why we have some really great stuff for this week's Weekly Bacon:

• Bacon Beer Cheese Dip
• Bacon Salt Roasted Garlic
• Fried Tilapia Sandwich with Spicy Baconnaise ("The Kyle" - our intern)
• Bacon Flavored Potato Skins 
• Vegetarian Bacon Burgers
• Bacon Risotto

Enjoy these delicious recipes! Please be careful on the roads this week, and if you have to, put some bacon grease on the bottom of your accelerator while you're waiting to bring it to the dealership. 

Have a Bacony Super Bowl

It's Super Bowl weekend, and it's all about the apps - and not the kind for your iPhone. It's all about appetizers. Fortunately, there are lots of recipes on our Recipe Community for parties and entertaining. Here are some of the best of our most recently submitted recipes for your party weekend enjoyment:

 

Deep Fried Avocadoes and Baconnaise

Cheesy Bacony Beer Bread

Bacon Ranch Stuffed and Wrapped Jalapenos

Bacon Corn Muffins

Bacon Ranch Cheese Fingers

Bacon Salt Nachos (repeat from last week, but it's perfect for the Super Bowl!)

Grilled Potato Appetizers

Baconnaise Deviled Eggs

Bacon Buttermilk Ranch Dip

BLT Wraps with Baconnaise

 

If you want to go REALLY nuts, you can always duplicate our Bacon Flavored Snack Stadium, inspired by our friends at Holy Taco. Be sure to visit the fast-growing J&D's Recipe Community for many more recipes and to share your own favorites.

 

By the way, if you're looking for a great Valentine's Day gift, we've got you covered with our Bacon Flavored Kisses and Love Letters gift, which is under $10 and comes with free shipping. Limited supply!

Latest Recipes from our Recipe Community

What gets us through the dreary winter? Sandwiches and snacks that taste like bacon, that's what. Here are some of our latest favorites from the J&D's Foods Recipe Community.
 
Bacon Salt Nachos  - a party favorite
Bacon Salt Beef Jerky - who knew you could make delicious beef jerky with ground beef?
Baconnaise Tuna Melt
Crab Sammy with Baconnaise
Grilled Baconnaise Cheese Sandwich - somewhat of an obsession around here
Baconnaise Toasted Reuben Sandwich
The Super Easy No-B-LT
 
Enjoy!

The joke's on you, ay?

This was an email from a customer that came in yesterday. We thought it was funny enough to share:

"I bought a jar of baconnaise as a joke... but the joke is obviously on me because now I dream about baconnaise. When I wake up in the morning my first thought is "I need some baconnaise on a cracker to set me up for the day". Then at lunch I can't help it, I have to have baconnaise on my sandwhich. And at dinner I make russet potatoes just so I can cut them open and fill them with baconnaise. I have to stop myself from eating baconnaise out of the jar with a spoon. My friends think it's revolting, till they eat it, then they're hooked too. It's addictive. Like crack, except legal, and made with eggs and smoke flavouring. What have you done to me? I can't stop eating this stuff! It's freaking mayonnaise with bacon flavour! But if everyone ate it then world wars would cease. Religions would find common ground. Politicians would stop being crooked. There would be a whole new world order, all because of the deliciousness of baconnaise. You have to keep making this stuff. The future happiness of the planet depends on you. And I know it's a huge responsibility, but I know you can do it. Why? Because you're baconnaise. Not just mayonnaise, and more than bacon. Somewhere in between. Like that perfect moment when you're toasting a marshmellow over the campfire when it turns golden brown, just before it lights on fire. Baconnaise is just that perfect. I frickin' love it!

PS - keep shipping it to Vancouver, Canada or you'll make me cry when I can't find it anymore."

Recent recipe contest entries

If you haven't been over to the J&D's Foods Recipe Community lately, you're missing out! As part of our recipe contest, people are submitting all sorts of amazing creations. Some of the highlights:

B&D Sammies - submitted by Debbie

Lite Baconnaise Horseradish Dip - submitted by Kelly

Baconnaise Tuna Melt - submitted by James

Bacon Cheeseburger Pasta - submitted by Tara (who's made it 5 times since she discovered it!)

Bacon Salt Chex Mix - a new twist on an old favorite. Submitted by Jenny

Baconey Cheese Grits - a little something for the Southerner in you!

Bacon Ranch Savory Roast Chicken - this really tastes phenomenal! Submitted by Lisa.

Cheeseburger Soup - from Chef Jason Bunnin at 200 Fifth Restaurant in NY

Chicken Club Stuffed Potatoes - from Martha, who says it's like a sandwich and baked potato in one!

 

In the strange but true category:

Phoenix favorite (for your doggie) - apparently, even your pup can enjoy Bacon Salt. Maybe there should be a Dog Bacon Salt :)

 

Hope you enjoy this week's recipes and a HUGE thanks to all that submitted your favorites! Be sure to visit the J&D's Recipe Community for many more and to submit your own. 

J&D's Recipe Community Contest

Based on a lot of customer requests, we recently launched a brand spanking new J&D's Recipe Community at www.jdfoods.net/recipe. On the site you can:

• Submit your own recipes using any of our products (or just recipes using real bacon)
• Search for recipes by meal type or J&D's product
• Share your favorite recipes on facebook
• Sign up for weekly recipes in email

This is just the first version of the community, and we will be adding more features over time. We built this for you, so we're introducing it by asking you to post your favorite recipes. Here's a little incentive: if you submit a recipe by December 15th, you could win a J&D's Everything Pack that includes one of everything we make. The winner will be our absolute favorite recipe submitted.  

Happy holidays to all!

- J&D

Only 4 days until history is made

If you live in Seattle (or any other corner of the bacon-loving universe) and don't yet know about our upcoming launch event - The Bacathlon - you must live in a cave. And we really hope your cave has a keg fridge and satellite TV because there was some good football on TV this weekend...

To recap The Bacathlon:

• The world's first bacon-themed, multi-sport athletic and endurance event.
• It will be more ridiculous (but probably less messy) than Mayonnaise Wrestling 2008.
• We will be sampling no less than 3 new and delicious products, including Bacon Ranch, BaconPOP microwave popcorn and our weirdest product ever.
• There will be cheap cheap cheap drink specials from Maker's Mark and Miller Lite.
• There will be bacon, BLT's and lots of other food thanks to the good people at QFC.
• It's for charity.
• A world record will be set for bacon eating by the current #8 internationally ranked competitive eater, Erik "The Red" Denmark.

This is going to be epic.

The Bacathlon. November 19th. 9pm - midnight. Heaven Nightclub. Seattle.

www.bacathlon.com

Evite invitation

Facebook invitation

Food (and mail) is about to get more awesome

The team at J&D's Foods has been working really hard to prepare for the holiday season. Which in our world means eating lots of bacon and trying to come up with delicious and fun products that taste great with bacon. Yes, it's definitely a dream job.

This year's new products are:

J&D's BaconPOP - an amazing bacon flavored microwave popcorn. The Bacon Wife begs me to bring home samples on movie nights - this stuff is highly addictive. One of the coolest things is that when you pop it, your office/kitchen/house/garage/mancave smells like someone's frying bacon. If you love your employees, no office should ever be without a box of BaconPOP again. www.baconpop.com (on back order until November 19th)

J&D's Bacon Ranch Dressing & Dip Mix - this might be the best product we've ever made, but maybe we're biased because in addition to our obvious love of bacon, we LOVE ranch. Make it with sour cream, with mayo and buttermilk, or a combo of all 3. Great as a dip, a sauce, or a dressing. Bring it out for football watching parties, family gatherings, or because you're tired of eating salads that don't taste like the perfect marriage between bacon and ranch. Available now at www.thebaconranch.com.

J&D's Bacon Flavored Mmmvelopes - this is without a doubt the weirdest product we've ever made. But it was high time someone improved on the experience of licking envelopes... and it only took us 4,000 years to do it. Makes a great stocking stuffer. Available now at www.mmmvelopes.com.

We hope you enjoy our latest creations! If you're in Seattle and want to sample them while helping raise money for an awesome cause (and witnessing history), please come to our launch party on November 19th - www.bacathlon.com.

Bacon Salt Recipe: Bacon Salt Garlic Bread

This recipe was sent by a family member, and is as good as it sounds. It's got garlic, bacon and butter - a true trifecta of tastes. The Bacon Salt adds a nice color and a great smoky bacon flavor.

Bacon Salt Garlic Bread

• 1 16 oz loaf of Italian or French bread
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
• 2 large cloves of garlic, smashed and minced
• 1 large Tbsp of freshly chopped parsley
• 1 Tbsp any flavor of Bacon Salt (or to taste)
• 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese

Preheat oven to 350 F. Cut the bread in half horizontally. Mix butter, garlic, parsley and Bacon Salt together in a small bowl with a fork. Spread the butter mixture over each half of the bread. Place on a baking sheet and cook for 10 minutes. Remove the pan from the oven and sprinkle Parmesan cheese onto the halves of the bread. Return to oven on the highest rack, and broil for 2- minutes until the edges of the bread start to toast and the cheese bubbles. Watch the bread very carefully during broiling to ensure it doesn't burn! Let cool for 1-2 minutes, slice and serve.

For a less crispy version, pre-slice the bread placing some of the butter mixture between slices and wrap in foil before placing in the oven and cook for 15 minutes.