fireworks

[threeplusfire]

There's at least three independent fireworks extravaganzas visible from my house. It sounds like fucking Beruit, or Beghdad, or Bosnia circa the mid 90's or some other place beginning with a B and gunfire... I can't believe with the drought everyone is still so nuts. I soaked the yard earlier, so hopefully stray explosions won't burn us down.

Mike visited Sherry's party and brought me home lots of delicious food. Including the most excellent piece of candied bacon - oh god, candied bacon. Nom. He also visited the neighbors who were having a party across the street. Neighborhood gossip reveals the house at the corner is Section 8, and they pay something like three hundred dollars a month for it. At the risk of sounding completely prejudiced, I think this explains the visits by the police and such charming anecdotes about visiting their parole officers and explaining their drug test results. (Okay seriously, if you don't want me to be mean about that, then don't talk about it LOUDLY in the front yard. Dude.)

My fever seems reduced, and I hurt somewhat less. Still feel like meh, swollen zombie right now.

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[delchi.livejournal.com]

Candied BACON? I have never heard of such a thing. Must find.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

The way to have it apparently is on ice cream. I could not wait for ice cream. I just ate it. NOM!

I think (And brienze can correct me) that basically she cooked bacon slices on parchment in a sheet pan, smothered in brown sugar. Then she let it cool completely so it the sugar set up around the bacon. It was amazing.

[brienze.livejournal.com]

Yep. I discovered two things: if it looks burnt, you did it right. The pieces that still looked like nicely cooked bacon (instead of looking black) were a bit limp instead of being crunchy.

Also, apparently grease does not go through parchment the way it goes through tin foil. I was astonished to see that the sandwich of sheet tray-parchment-brownsugar-bacon-brownsugar-parchment-sheet tray left both trays perfectly clean.

I inverted the top parchment and plucked the bacon out of the congealing pool of caramel brittle as soon as it came out of the oven... otherwise it would have been one solid sheet tray of candyandbacon, and harder to deal with when crumbling onto ice cream.

To be fair, the stuff I had at Alamo's Kevin Bacon feast was better than what I managed to produce. I'm not sure what I'd change to get it more like theirs, though.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I think the only ways to improve would be to get some fancified bacon from a farmer's market or some such, and the rarest sugar on earth grown on one island every twenty years and harvested by naked virgins wearing pineapple tiaras. :P

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

Mmmmmmm.

We had bacon wrapped dates filled with cheese at a dinner party a while ago and it was so so yummy.

I'm glad you're feeling better!

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I am.
(and thank you.)