Everyone has their own way of cooking bacon. In the pan, in the oven, even in the microwave. My method involves the oven, covering the pan with aluminum foil (for easier clean up), but also by placing the bacon on a wire rack placed on the prepared baking sheet. Why? Well, two reasons: 1. by raising the bacon away from the pan, there is better airflow, so the bacon crisps from the bottom as well, leaving the bacon nice and flat and 2. also because the bacon is raised from the pan, it causes less splatters (the reason bacon splatters is because the heated grease under the bacon doesn’t have any place to go with the bacon on top of it, so it eventually “pops” to have the air/grease escape, causing splatters. I don’t know that this is the “best” method, but it is the one that I use. Onwards:
Breakfast/Brunch
With the abundance of Meyer Lemons this time of year, I thought that I would indulge in some more citrus to perk up January. The trick to this Tea Cake was to make small “dollops” of both lemon curd and raspberry jam by freezing them overnight. That means that the flavor drops stayed intact when I put them in the batter. Little pockets of goodness!
I don’t bake bread all that often. I love bread — don’t get me wrong, I LOVE bread — but as a singleton, a loaf of bread sometimes will take me more than a week to eat, and after a couple of days, homemade bread isn’t all that fresh anymore. With all of that said, Rainer called me the other day, raving about a recipe that he had seen on Cook’s Country, of a multigrain bread (which is always a favorite). So I had to try it. And it turned out wonderfully yummy. The one thing that I would likely do when making this again is to make two oblong loaves instead of one boule.





