Bacon Bar
Oct 07, 2016 in birthday party, cooking, epicurious, football food, pork, sponsored, ad, votewrightbrandbacon. Read the original on: Mrs Happy Homemaker
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Anyone who knows me knows what a huge affliction I have for bacon. I mean, I’ll put it in anything – from donuts, to pancakes, to even cheesecake (hey, don’t knock it until you try it!). I seriously can’t get enough. I mean – bacon is amazing, y’all. It’s the best thing ever.
This past weekend, I had a little get together – and I had the perfect idea. Everyone I know loves bacon just like I do – because well, it’s bacon. What’s not to love? So, I made the ultimate centerpiece on the buffet table…
A bacon bar!
Say what?
You heard me. A bacon bar, y’all.
And if you’re gonna do a bacon bar, you know you gotta do it right & use good quality bacon. I consider myself a little bit of a bacon aficionado & my family/friends know this – so I have to serve the best of the best on this bacon bar.
For that reason, I went with Wright® Brand Bacon because it’s super high quality & always has the best cuts of premium meat…and the bacon never ever shrivels up & shrinks (boo for bacon shrinkage!). The fat & meat ratio is perfect, and it’s thick cut. Oh so good!
I did a variety of different flavors – and even a little ‘dessert’ bacon too by drizzling melted milk chocolate on some bacon & melted dark chocolate on some other pieces of bacon. If you haven’t tried chocolate covered bacon yet, you don’t know what you’re missing. Sweet & salty perfection, my friends.
As for the rest of my bacon bar, I cooked up 3 different flavors. I went to the local Food Lion & picked up 3 different flavor varieties of Wright Brand Bacon – Hickory Smoked, Applewood Smoked, & Bourbon Barrel Smoked. (Wright Brand Bacon also comes in Smoked Brown Sugar and Oak Barrel Smoked flavors).
I used my 3 tier server to display all the bacon goodness, placing each flavor of bacon on a different tier.
The Bourbon Barrel Smoked (on the very top of the buffet server) was my FAVORITE of all. Oh. My. Gosh. It’s SO good. It’s way better than I imagined. As soon as you open the package, the bourbon notes hit your nose – and the flavor is still there after cooking. So yummy & so different than any other bacon I’ve tried. We all agreed that it’d be so good to season baked beans too.
We had a little bacon voting contest too – everyone placed their vote for their favorite flavor of bacon. Mine was obviously the Bourbon Barrel Smoked – but the Applewood Smoked won out among everyone. You can join in on the vote & vote for your favorite flavor of Wright Brand Bacon here. – Bacon The Wright Way™
All in all, I cooked up 8 pounds of bacon! I think I might have cooked a couple pounds too much because we were all stuffed after 6 pounds! I think this may be the very first time I’ve ever had leftover bacon 
With all this leftover bacon, I’ll be adding it to dishes for the next few days. Do y’all have any ideas to use it up? Leave a comment & let me know what YOUR favorite recipes with bacon as the main ingredient – I could use a little inspiration!
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Mrs Happy Homemaker, Crystal Faulkner
I am a homeschooling mother of 3 kids & a wife to my high school sweetheart. I am also a full-time blogger over at MrsHappyHomemaker.com as well as the host of the 'Mrs Happy Homemaker' segment on Fox8 News.
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