Hog Heaven #1
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HOG HEAVEN: Ah, bacon - a food that's been so sinfully delicious, so
versatile, and so ubiquitous for so long that it transcends trendiness.
Served across America with chocolate, piled high on burgers, and wrapped
around everything from dates to quail legs, the endlessly creative presentations are both eye-popping and mouthwatering. A little bacon
never hurt anyone, and these restaurants really bring it home.
BLACK PIG BACON CARAMEL POPCORN: Zazu Kitchen + Farm Sebastopol,
California You can have a variety of bacon delicacies at Zazu Kitchen +
Farm, a restaurant (currently the Black Piglet food truck) that
specializes in all things pork related. But one of the most highly
recommended options at this Sonoma County establishment is the Black Pig
Bacon Caramel Popcorn. The crunchy yet fluffy snack is coated with
caramel toffee glaze and sprinkled with bits of the restaurant's
signature applewood-smoked uncured bacon. The resulting combination is
salty and sweet.
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Title: Spicy Caramel Bacon Popcorn
Categories: Grains, Pork, Snacks, Chilies
Yield: 3 servings
2 tb Bacon dripping
2 ts Salt
1/2 c Popcorn; unpoped
3 c Sugar
3 tb Butter
1/2 c Water
1/2 ts Cayenne or chipotle powder;
- pick your heat
1 ts Baking soda
1 c Crisp cooked bacon pieces
In a large pan with a lid heat the oil and the salt, add
the popcorn, cover and shake until it pops remove from
heat, remove lid.
Butter a large mixing bowl and pour the popcorn into it.
While you're at it butter 3 baking sheets and 2
spatulas, as well.
Set the popcorn aside.
Make caramel by combining sugar, butter and water in a
large pan. you will need a pan big enough to contain the
foaming of the caramel after you add the baking soda,
choose accordingly.
Place the pan over med/high heat and cook without
stirring for 10 minutes until light golden brown.
Meanwhile combine the baking soda and the ground
chilies. Set aside.
Attempt NOT to eat all the bacon pieces just waiting to
be dipped in caramel.
When the caramel is golden brown remove from the heat
and add the baking soda/chile mixture, it will foam and
bubble but just stir away.
Pour it over the bowl of popcorn and sprinkle on the
crispy bacon pieces.
Use the buttered spatulas to toss and coat the popcorn.
Taste before the caramel gets hard to see if it needs
more salt. It will be like molten lava so blow on a
small piece to cool it
Add salt as needed, stirring to mix in.
Pour into the buttered pans, breaking up as needed.
Cool completely and then use within 24 hours. (As if! -
UDD)
Store in the fridge if any is left.
NOTE TO SELF: Look into adding chocolate to this dandy.
Uncle Dirty Dave's Kitchen
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