You can't turn around these days without discovering some new, creative thing that someone has done with bacon. My favorite of late is the apple pie with bacon lattice that you see above. This was served at a private Thanksgiving celebration, but a two-person mini-pie version will be available at Lincoln Restaurant and Culinary Artistry in Portland, OR very soon. [via An Exploration of Portland Food and Drink]
Also intriguing is this Bacon Magic Shell from Cooking With Tits [via Not Martha], these Bacon Cookies (I realize it's an old post, but still sounds delicious) from Elkit in Wonderland [via Schmutzie] and the Bacon and Cheese Roll at FoodProof.
12-03-2008 @8:14PM rockphiler said... Um... how do you keep all of the bacon grease from collecting into the pie? This could be as good as the bacon maple bars at Portland's VooDoo Donuts.
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12-03-2008 @9:00PM Rt said... The pig industry advertisers are working overtime.
I love bacon and I love apples but this is disgusting. What a waste of a good pie and (hopefully) great bacon.
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12-04-2008 @12:28AM VMBrasseur said... Rockphiler: You don't. The bacon grease mingles with the apples inside the pie. Just today a friend, who's tried this pie, sent a review of the VooDoo bacon maple bars and deemed the pie superior due to its better balance of flavors (seems she thought the maple was too strong in the VooDoo donut). She still liked the donut though. :-)
Rt: don't knock it until you've tried it.
I've made a bacon-topped apple pie twice in as many weeks and all tasters (which numbered > 12) greatly enjoyed it, without exception. Even those who were skeptical at first.
My blog post on the subject, finally and coincidentally published last night:
http://firststep.vmbrasseur.com/?p=477
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12-04-2008 @11:38AM Simon said... I like the idea, but it seems like it would be very hard to cut slices neatly, therefore, I think probably a bad design. Individual pies would probably be a better application of the concept.
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12-05-2008 @12:13PM elkit said... The bacon cookies really are great. I keep making them, and almost everybody loves them. (A few people think they're just wrong, and won't go near them, for fear of destroying the space-time continuum.)
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