more bacon links

If you’re a vegetarian — and I don’t know why you’re reading this website if you are — this might not make you hungry. (It might, though.)

If you don’t eat pork — and again, I don’t know why you’re reading this website — you might not look at this and say, “Yes, please. Can I have some off the screen?”

For the rest of us, tell me you’re not hungry now.

Oh my, that’s good bacon.

These particular strips of bacon come from the good people at Zoe’s Meats, a charcuterie company based in Seattle and San Francisco. They have a mission of finding the best cured meats in North America, along with a reverence for the environment, which they put into action by the way they do their business. We’ll be telling you more about them soon, in a full profile of the dynamic duo that runs this company. But for now, just know that their dry-cured, applewood-smoked bacon is one of our favorites. We can never enough in this house.

If you have bacon in the house, here are some suggestions (part of a continuing series) of how you can eat that bacon.

You might already do this, but saving your bacon fat can add flavor to your dishes and save your drains. Check out the comments on this post for more suggestions on how to cook with bacon fat. (I’m intrigued by the idea of molasses cookies with bacon fat in them…)

Have a celebration coming up? How about making some maple bacon cupcakes?

Do you want to make your co-workers squirm when it looks like you are eating raw bacon? Try some gummy bacon!

And if, after reading this round-up, you find you still need more conversations about bacon, you can join Bacon Lovers’ Talk, a new community forum centered on bacon.