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Roasted Carrots with Bacon

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On New Year's Eve of....last year? this year? how do we describe this? the one that just happened. Let's start again.

Roasted Carrots with Bacon from funnyloveblog.com

The last time we had a New Year's Eve, Jay and I went to a fancy dinner with our best friends. It was excellent. Will was just a few weeks old, we felt free, and the food was fabulous.

The dinner was one of those "four courses choose one thing each course" fixed price special event dealios, and for most of the courses we each chose different stuff so we could try everything. And almost without fail, the vegetables were the best things on the table. I'm talking pate vs a raw cauliflower thing, greens vs pork belly - on paper, the meat stuff should have been the best.

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Bacon Cheddar Skillet Pizza with Caramelized Onions

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You know that when you make pizza in a cast iron skillet it's done in 10 minutes, right? 

Bacon Cheddar Pizza from funnyloveblog.com

That means you can be EATING PIZZA in ten minutes. 

Beck's favorite food HANDS DOWN is pizza. When we are talking restaurants is always what she "suggests" (shouts for), what she'll gobble up the fastest, and what she'll do almost anything for, behavior-wise. Yes, we bribe with food. I'm cool with it.

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Spicy Candied Bacon

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This spicy candied bacon recipe features just a few ingredients and a quick bake in the oven. Oven baked bacon means no mess, and sugar + spices give huge flavor for the best appetizer, brunch item, or snack! Bacon should always be a snack, let's just agree on that.

Spicy Candied Bacon recipe

Well, well, WELL.  

The vegetarian husband has glazed us some bacon.  

Last week when we had the epic snow that was very non-epic, my sister stayed the night because her power went out (a light breeze knocks the power out on her street, it's really remarkable), and since calories don't count on snow days Jay made us burgers on Saturday.  They were EXCELLENT and involved caramelized onions and super juicy patties and onion buns, but the best part was this bacon on top of the burger.  It was so good, in fact, that I decided it could stand alone, and boy can it.  I made this last week for my fairly-healthy, mostly-vegetarian family, and it was GONE in approximately 4 seconds.  

Now, the Green Jar Spice is famous in our family, we all keep a can around and find that it just fixes any number of sins food-wise.  If you have another Cajun or Creole seasoning you like, by all means use that.  You can also use my recipe for homemade blackening seasoning if you'd prefer - it's completely up to you.  

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Cheeseburger Quinoa

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Yep.  

I know.  

I'm baffled too.  

Two small bowls of quinoa

So what happened was this.  I spent the whole weekend (like, 15 hours) in my yoga glass, then we studied ayurvedic constitutions for 3 of those hours and ate all this fun vegetarian food that was totally delicious, then I wanted to grill out but not eat meat, but I wanted to eat bacon.

SO.  We grilled out.  And as a side dish I made this, which could really be a meal, because it has veggies and carbs and protein.  It's quinoa stuffed with bacon cheeseburger ingredients minus the beef.  It was AWESOME.  Really yummy and satisfying but obviously so much healthier than a burger. 

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Bacon-Wrapped + Cream Cheese-Filled Jalapeno Bites

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OMG finally Friday. 

You know what's dumb?  

Today is Jay's last day of work.  He's taking a new job, and to celebrate I'm taking Monday/Tuesday off and we're having a staycation in which I'll cook a lot and make him do yard work.  

Grill until crispy

It'll be great.  For me.  The problem with that is that, in order to take said staycation, I've been SLAMMED this week trying to get ready to miss Monday and Tuesday.  It's like....now I HAVE to take time off to make up for the insanity that I created trying to take time off?

That makes no sense at all.

You know what does make sense, though?  These little babies.  They're SUPER simple, and epically delicious.  Do you need to know any more than that?  Nope, you don't. 

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Bacon Blue Cheese Burgers

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Children.

Note the title.

Not Cheeseburgers.  Blue. Cheese. Burgers.

YES.

Remember awhile ago when we made bacon blue cheese meatballs for a choir party and they were devoured in the NAME OF THE LORD (we live in the south, let it go) with lots of wine?

That happened.

This is the same recipe.

But. You make them bigger, which is better, and you eat 'em on a bun.

ZING.

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Spicy Bacon Spaghetti

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You know how bacon is good on, like, everything?

Well, it is!

I love this spaghetti, and I make it all the time.  The spice and bacon makes it juuuuust special enough that it's different than regular old spaghetti (nothing wrong with that, though!), and you can throw it together on a weeknight in no time!

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