On 12/12/2014 5:28 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 12:25:13 -0500, "Steve Freides" >
> wrote:
>
>> I wanted to make a grilled cheese with bacon for my 18-year-old son, who
>> was home from high school (which is a few blocks away) because he had a
>> double free period at lunch time.
>>
>> No bacon? No problem. I substituted deli Virginia Ham by making a fine
>> (1/2" dice), sauté pan with olive oil and 2 cloves of garlic, and fresh
>> ground black pepper. Sprinkled some of that in the middle of the
>> grilled cheese sandwiches (made them in the same pan without cleaning
>> it, of course, all the better to get some more flavor into the bread)
>> and made them as usual, then I asked my son if they were good - yes.
>> Same, better, or worse than bacon? Better.
>>
>
(snippage)

> I detest bacon. To me bacon is like artificially flavored lard, bacon
> is more than 95% fattiness... I don't consider bacon a food, bacon is
> a fat, a cheap fat.
>
I guess you've never had really good bacon. Even here in the sticks I
can buy nice, thick cut bacon that isn't all fat. It doesn't all have
artificial stuff added, either. (Forget that fake maple cured crap.)

You're welcome to my share of ham. I'll eat it if it's served to me but
I don't go out of my way to buy it.

Jill