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Onion Rings ala Bacon

June 13, 2017Side Dishes, Tasty TuesdaybaconLife of Joy

Satisfying side dish to a sandwich-style dinner. The onion melts in your mouth and the bacon is tender but could be cooked a bit longer to crisp up even more.

I used to love onion rings. Yep, I would get them at most restaurants at least once but then the hard part was remembering which ones I loved and which ones I disliked.

Love the tower of onion rings at Cheddars! Mmmm mmmm! But the ones at Burger King taste fishy but so do their french fries much of the time; I think they must cook fish fillets in the same grease and then don’t clean it often enough.

Enter the ketogenic diet and I don’t eat onion rings any more because of the breading. I saw the ketogenic cookbook by Jimmy Moore and Maria Emmerich at Sprouts one day and decided to check it out of our local library. There were so many recipes in it that I could see me using, that I put it on my birthday list and received it. One of the recipes is for rings of onion wrapped in thin strips of bacon. It was very intriguing.

I bought a package of thin bacon specifically for this purpose and some sweet onions, which happened to be on sale at Aldi that week. I kept putting it off and putting it off and finally Sunday evening was the day! My dinner plans were all amuck because I changed my mind about what to cook at the last minute (without consulting a recipe) when I went to take the meat out of the freezer to thaw Saturday night. Then Sunday when it was time to think about getting dinner going, I consulted the recipe and found I was missing a key ingredient and did not want to have our first taste of this new recipe be less than the way it was intended. So . . . we punted and everyone willingly fended for themselves. Well, I made Michael a fried egg sandwich.

I was up in the air with what to make for myself but had these onion rings tempting me. So I mentioned it to Tiffany and she wholeheartedly agreed!

It is soooo simple to do.

Cut a sweet onion into slices a bit thicker than a half in but not quite three-quarters of an inch. You want them to be as even as possible but don’t stress about it. Tiffany didn’t cut ours very even and they turned out just fine.

Separate the onion slices into rings and wrap one piece of bacon around one onion ring. That’s it!

Lay it down on parchment paper on a rimmed baking sheet.

Yep, we had already used this once to bake bacon this morning. Poured off the grease and reused it.

Ours didn’t need toothpicks to hold the bacon on but use them if you need to.

Bake in a 375º oven for 25-35 minutes or until the bacon is as crispy as you desire.

These are crispier than they look in this picture.

The onion gets nice and soft and the bacon . . . mmmmm, delicious! I wish we had taken more pictures, but we were hungry folks! Maybe next time.

Onion Rings ala Bacon

Ingredients

About 1 pound of thin cut bacon
2-3 sweet onions

Instructions

Place parchment paper or aluminum foil on rimmed baking sheet.
Peel the onion and slice into rings about 1/2"-3/4" thick.
Wrap one slice of bacon around the onion ring.
Place on baking sheet.
Bake at 375º for 25-35 minutes, or until bacon is done as desired.

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Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº

Baked Bacon

May 30, 2017Tasty Tuesdaybacon, keto, low carbLife of Joy

For the juiciest, most tender, delicious bacon you have to bake it! Oh! And it is super easy!

Can you tell I’m passionate and excited about this?

This is delicious stuff! It is super easy. I’m talking, much easier than babysitting it over a stove top and getting splattered by it.

Now, save yourself some elbow grease and line your rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper. You can use aluminum foil but I have read and heard that it is not good for you, as it can leach bad stuff into your food. I get a twenty-five foot roll at Dollar Tree for a dollar. I don’t know how good that is but it is a good way to try parchment paper to see if you like it. I have found that I love it!

This is one package of thick cut bacon; I guess it was about one and a half pounds, I don’t remember exactly and the trash has already been taken out of the house, so that’s as close as we’re getting on the amount.

As you can see, I flip and rotate the pieces so that they fit nicely onto the sheet pan. Sometimes one end is smaller than the other and so I situate them so that there’s a narrow part on the same side of the pan as a thicker piece beside it. Here you can see what I mean, although the pan is not full. (We did this one last week and had too many pieces for one pan but not enough for two full pans.)Next you put the pans in the oven and turn it on 375ºfarenheight. I have been told that there is something really good about putting it into a cold oven but do not know the reason or paid attention to why yet.

Set a timer for ten minutes, at which point you will check the bacon and rotate the pans. You may want to flip a few pieces but I don’t usually.

Set the timer for five minutes. Check bacon for desired crispiness.

I usually bake mine for about twenty minutes total.

Note: If you are using thin bacon, I’d rotate the pans at about eight minutes and keep a close eye on it.

I hope you love this bacon as much as we do. Oh, if you failed to set a timer and your bacon got extremely well done, I encourage you to taste it anyway. Bacon is not cheap, so I ate the burned bacon . . . it wasn’t all that bad . . . honestly.

Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº

Seasoned Green Beans

November 15, 2016Side Dishes, Tasty Tuesdaybacon, gluten-free, ham, keto, pork, vegetablesLife of Joy

Green Beans, regular cut or french cut, seasoned with ham and minced onion. If slow cooked, you might even think they were from Cracker Barrel.

Are your green beans boring? Here’s how to make delicious green beans. All it takes is some canned green beans, bacon or other ham pieces, onion powder or minced onion, salt and pepper. You could use fresh or frozen green beans but you’d have to cook them a LOT longer.

Empty a can of green beans into a pot, french cut style or regular cut style. Pour out some of the liquid, about half of what is in it.

Then add a piece or two of bacon (or ham of some sort), depending on how thick it is. I used one piece of turkey bacon.

Add a sprinkling of dried minced onion, onion powder, or a bit of fresh minced onion. I used dried minced onion last night.

Bring it to a simmer and cover. Simmer for a bit. You can serve them as soon as they are hot, if you used onion powder. Otherwise, cook for about a half an hour. You can also put this in a slow cooker and cook for several hours.

Seasoned Green Beans

Ingredients

Canned green beans
minced onion
piece of turkey bacon
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions

Combine all ingredients in pot or slow cooker.
Simmer on stove for about 30 minutes or several hours in slow cooker.

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Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº

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Crazy Cabbage

October 25, 2016Ground Meat, Main Dishes, Tasty Tuesdaybacon, cabbage, ground meatLife of Joy

Slow-cooked cabbage with ground meat, bacon, and a touch of tomato sauce.

This is another of those recipes I got back when I was either on Atkin’s or on the hCG diet. I got it from http://genaw.com/lowcarb/index.html. She has tons of low carb recipes over there. I like a lot of them. The green been and hamburger casserole is a favorite here.

As some of you may recall, Michael is allergic to beef and pork, so I have to change this up a bit for him. However, this is one of those recipes that I’m unwilling to change for myself and the kids. (Yeah, they’re not really “kids” any more but what do you call young adults that still live with you?) So, I change it up a bit for Michael and make it with the beef and bacon for the kids and me.

Start by browning your ground beef with the chopped onion and some salt and pepper.

Chop the cabbage.

Spray your 9×13 casserole dish. Place half of the cabbage on the bottom of your pan and season with salt and pepper.

Next place the browned ground meat (and onions) over the cabbage.

Next add the rest of the cabbage with more salt and pepper.

Spoon about 2 cups of tomato sauce on top of the cabbage. Then add bacon. The original directions say to place 3 pieces of bacon across the top. I happened to have these bacon pieces so I laid them out evenly over the top.

As you can see, I put a bit more than 3 whole pieces but I like the bacon.

Cover with foil and bake at 350º for 3 hours. NOW I MUST SAY that I used a glass pan, so I reduced the temperature down to 325º. I also like my bacon a little crispy because I’m going to eat that yummy stuff rather than discard it like the original directions state. Consequently, I removed the foil for the last 30-60 minutes of baking.

I have a gas oven so broiling things is a real pain but if I had an electric oven, I’d just broil it to crisp up the bacon.

When I do this with ground turkey and turkey bacon, I add a little coconut oil (or olive oil) because these meats are way too lean.

Crazy Cabbage

Ingredients

1 1/2 pounds ground beef
small onion, diced
small head of cabbage, coarsely chopped (less than two pounds before trimming)
nearly 2 cups tomato sauce
salt and pepper

Instructions

Brown the beef with the onions, salt, and pepper.
Grease 9x13 casserole dish.
Place half the cabbage in the pan.Season with salt and pepper.
Spread cooked beef and onions over the cabbage.
Spread remaining cabbage atop the beef. Season with salt and pepper.
Spoon tomato sauce atop the cabbage.
Place bacon on top of the tomato sauce.
Cover with foil and bake at 350º for 3 hours. (I removed the foil for the last 30-60 minutes to brown the bacon because I'm not tossing that yumminess.)

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I hope you like this lower carb meal. (It is definitely NOT low fat!)

Until next time, God bless,

Michele ºÜº

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Tag Archives: bacon

Onion Rings ala Bacon

Satisfying side dish to a sandwich-style dinner. The onion melts in your mouth and the bacon is tender but could be cooked a bit longer to crisp up even more.

Baked Bacon

For the juiciest, most tender, delicious bacon you have to bake it! Oh! And it is super easy!

Seasoned Green Beans

Green Beans, regular cut or french cut, seasoned with ham and minced onion. If slow cooked, you might even think they were from Cracker Barrel.

Crazy Cabbage

Slow-cooked cabbage with ground meat, bacon, and a touch of tomato sauce.