Bacon chocolate at home?

Last year, the team and I had chocolate-dipped bacon from a local restaurant at the Taste of Reston. It was quite disappointing. It occurs to me today that is probably because they didn’t get enough of the grease out of the bacon and used that nasty dipping chocolate.

Here’s what I am thinking – cook bacon on a ribbed skillet or in the microwave with cloth/paper to soak up the grease. Ensure the bacon is cooked down good and crispy, and put it on clean cloth to soak up the surface grease. While that’s cooling, temper some chocolate; crumble bacon into chocolate. Separate out to cool, then crumble maple syrup crystals on to the chunks.

Philadelphia thru an iPhone 4S

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Bushmills Single Malt 16

Amazingly good stuff – best of the lot. Nuanced, smooth but with a bite.

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Southern Tier Double Milk Stout

A beer brewed with milk sugar – lactose – may not be the smartest idea for someone that is lactose intolerant, but I’m willing to make that sacrifice.

Smooth, sweet as expected. Tasty.

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Hush puppy-croquette dish

Hush puppy-croquette dish. Goes great with beer.

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Bells Winter White Ale

Tasty Belgian White-style, not heavily spiced. When my fiancée opened ours, I thought we were going to have a redux of the Port City Tidings. This one is not as heavily spiced, not as citrus, without a lot of clove flavor, and to my palette, a bit sweeter. This one would have been a good one with the turkey dumplings tonight.

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Kona Brewing Koko Brown

Strong, but not at all overpowering bouquet of coconut. The ale is smooth, and the coconut flavor barely noticeable. A bit nutty. Quite good.

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Someone is a Monty Python fan at Apple

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Port City Tidings ale

Alexandria-based Port City ale. Very similar in taste to a Belgian Gran Cru, but a little sweeter. Can definitely taste the honey and cloves.

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Southern Tier Imperial Choklat Stout

10% ABV.
25° Plato.
110% delicious.

Amazingly good. Malty, chocolately rich.

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