August 15, 2012

• 3/31/11 Pictorial Fudge Heaven :)

  Yesterday I posted this recipe for Bill the Bacon Binger. At the time I hadn’t actually made it, but that wasn’t the case for long! Me and Shane headed out for a grocery shop soon afterwards and here’s what happened when we got back…

   

   

  Who needs air freshener or scented candles when you can fill your home with the glorious scent of frying bacon?

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  TIP: if some doesn’t cook quite crispy enough for the recipe, eat it. Just make sure you don’t do it on purpose.

   

  Glance over and think how cute Junior is, asleep on Shane’s knee while he’s blogging…

   

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  For melting the choc/condensed milk/butter/cream mixture – If you don’t have a nifty free natural gas flame outside to do this, and an old breeze block to sit on, don’t worry. Go ahead and use one of those indoor gas/electric rings on one of those fancy cooker things. Will work just as well but you’ll miss the experience of snowflakes gently melting down your neck while you’re stirring. Bummer!

   

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  I’ve never bought condensed milk before, but a taste of it on the spoon brought childhood memories flooding back. When we were kids, Mum used to put a couple of tablespoons of it into bowls and stir in hot water, to which we’d add Shredded Wheat. It was a proper treat, especially in winter, and the taste hasn’t changed over the years! I miss my brother.

  What foodstuff smell/taste reminds YOU of childhood?

   

  Once you’ve mixed the crumbled bacon and pecans into the chocolate mixture and poured it into the pan, Put it in the fridge to chill. And cry, because four hours is SUCH a long time.

   

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  Console yourself with the fact that as the cook, you have the prerogative of licking the spoon.

   

   

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  AND that all the left over whipped cream can be added to the coffees to which you’ve already added good slugs of Canadian Club whisky, which you also splurged out on while shopping. WOOT!

   

  Play with Picnik for a while and turn a pretty boring photo you took while outside melting the choc mix into something you actually like…

   

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  Cake pans – $1.91

  Whipped Cream – $2.79

  Condensed Milk – $1.50

  Choc chips – $3.69

  Pecans – $4.69

  Bacon – $3.99

  Butter – $2.98

  1.75 liter bottle of Canadian Club – $25.05

  Total = $46.60

   

  An evening of cooking, reading, drinking and good conversation, ending in going to sleep slightly drunk and happy as anything – PRICELESS.

   

   

  And breakfast in the morning …

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  Omigod. Heaven. The chocolate is rich and sticky but not so overwhelming that you can’t taste the bacon. YUMMMMMM!! 

  It’s just as it says – sweet & salty. 

  Delicious.

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