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March 27, 2007
Makin' the bacon
Here's the email I got from my aunt K, who knows me better than myself.
I love ice cream, I love bacon, I love brown sugar, and I love pecans. What's not to love?
Here are the ingredients.
Here's my cute assistant, Steve-O. He blogs.
We pulverized the pecans.
We heated all the other stuff- cream, eggs, sugar, all the yummy stuff. The crucial part of the whole thing was to make sure that the egg didn't turn into scrambled eggs, but Stephen was doing a really good whisking.
Here is where I HATE recipes. It told us to stop heating the cream when it coated the back of the spoon. What the heck does that mean? Is it wool or leather? Apparently, this is coating a spoon:
Of course, nobody wants to see me make ice cream. Everybody wants to see me make BACON ice cream. Here's the obvious ingredient: ONE POUND OF CRISPY BACON.
Finally, we poured the mixture into Stephen's kick-ass mixer. It had the niftiest ice cream attachment in the whole wide world. If Derrick and I had one of these things, I would be the fattest person in the history of mankind, rolling around in my bacon'y goodness. For any observant Jews out there (or any family members that believe EVERY bible verse is true), this concoction breaks all sorts of laws.
I was going to take a picture of myself enjoying it, but that kind of gluttonous rapturous look could get me in trouble. Plus, I have to admit, the recipe is a bit too much bacon.
Next time, only a half pound of bacon. Plus we'll mix the pecans into the mix earlier, as their flavor wasn't really infusing the mix.
Yes, there will be a next time. Be afraid.
Posted by G at March 27, 2007 10:44 PM
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I can't believe you actually made the bacon ice cream.
Posted by: ELeamon at March 28, 2007 12:39 AM
I had a heartburn just lookin' at the last pic.
Posted by: Doug at March 28, 2007 01:20 AM
Honey, that recipe should've come with CPR instructions and a defibrillator. Ben & Jerry's should pick this up, it could be called: 'I pink therefore I Ham' 'Chubby Chaser,' 'Six degrees of Separation from Kevin' 'Cookin MC's like a pound of'
'Pork Cream,' 'CunningHAM,' 'This little piggy,'
and for our Jewish friends, a Non-pork substitute could be called 'Oink Vey.'
Posted by: Tye at March 28, 2007 02:34 AM
This lacto-ovo-bacono vegetarian has just found the perfect dessert. :)
Posted by: Alan at March 28, 2007 09:26 AM
Did you toast the pecans first? Toasting them will bring out their flavor...
I'd also add a teaspoon of vanilla extract. OR, perhaps add a teaspoon of almond extract if you want a "nuttier" flavor. (A Shot of Amaretto will also work.)
Or...just find a good butter pecan ice cream recipe and add the bacon to it? Maple and bacon works very well together...
I'll shut up now.
Posted by: Foxy at March 28, 2007 04:01 PM
Oh. God. I love pigs, live ones...
Posted by: homer at March 28, 2007 04:24 PM
wrong wrong wrong wrong.
Posted by: Blobby at March 28, 2007 07:59 PM
I am a born and bred southerner and cook great southern recipes all the time... but even we southerners are not crazy enough to put fatty pork into ice cream.... with pecans no less!!! This is about as bad as making fried butter!!!
Posted by: Shenida Weave at March 29, 2007 01:52 AM
I'm about to drown in my own drool, so I'm going to pat my lips and go grab a breakfast sandwich, and just eat the bacon.
Posted by: copperred at March 29, 2007 09:44 AM
Wow.
I am HOT when I'm making custard! >=)
Posted by: Stephen J. Xanthos at March 29, 2007 12:12 PM
Oh. My. God.
So help me, if my boyfriend sees this post (it could happen) and makes a batch of BACON ice cream ('cause we have that damn mixer too), I will hunt you down like the greased-up dog you are--wait, that sounds all wrong.
I say that with love, either way.
Posted by: Jeffrey at March 29, 2007 12:31 PM
ooh, a Kitchen-Aid ice cream maker attachment, who knew? I have been using my thrift store-purchased "Donvier", and setting it in "Jeffrey", my freezer (the same make and model that Jeffrey Dahlmer used to store his "dates").
Posted by: mr pinky at March 29, 2007 12:37 PM
I'm roommates with Steve-O (stirring in one of the pics above)....I just finished off the remainder of the bacon ice-cream last night. In fact, I think I ate most of it. It may be the fact that I'm Southern (or maybe because I'm Jewish), but I LOVED it.
Posted by: Bryan Bridges at March 29, 2007 01:57 PM
your assistant is so cute!
Posted by: chris at March 29, 2007 03:46 PM
*waves caramel covered bacon and toffee ganache in front of G*
here (scroll down. warning: lots of pix for those of you with low bandwidth/slow connections)
Posted by: Stash at March 29, 2007 04:34 PM
I'm lactose intolerant... maybe the super fatty bacon will counter the effect... Hmm... Bacon popcicle... What about a bacon malt??
Posted by: Robert at March 29, 2007 04:50 PM
Steve-O is a cutie!
Posted by: jimbo at March 30, 2007 04:07 PM
Is it just me, or is that a pretty extensive bar you have there in the corner? Does every counter surface look like that?
Posted by: Long Story Longer at March 30, 2007 11:14 PM