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heads up - cheap bacon steaks - but ideas needed please

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Hi

Our Sainsburys keeps getting batches of the cheapo cooking bacon (£1.10 a big pack) that instead of being the usual odds and ends and little rashers and lumps, contain 3 massive bacon steaks about half an inch to an inch thick. So look out for this as super cheap meals compared to buying actual bacon steaks. Each pack does the two of us for three generous meals.

...but...having stocked up a bit, I need some new ideas for recipes. We had just cooked plain with egg/chips etc, topped them with cheese, we've chopped them into omelettes, stir fries and risottos, and mixed with leftover chicken for chicken/bacon pies. We are a little bacon-ed out. They aren't rashers so can't wrap things in them, they are really chunky lumps.

Any more ideas? We've both turned our noses up at the idea of a bacon curry :-) urk
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  • clarryd
    clarryd Posts: 637 Forumite
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    You could make a broth soup.

    I make soup with a bacon joint as my stock then put the meat into the soup so its like a meal in it's self.

    Use scotch broth soup mix and carrots/swede/turnip and a couple of vegetable stock cubes and leave to boil for a few hours and there you have it a Scotch Broth soup with bacon.
  • meg72
    meg72 Posts: 5,164 Forumite
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    edited 26 February 2014 at 6:13PM
    some of my favourites are quiche. toad in the hole (instead of sausase)
    topping for a baked potato, bacon and egg pie bacon onion and potato pie.

    edited to add when I boii bacon I use the stock to make pea and ham shop; just add a tin of mushy peas, bit of chopped onion and potato and a tiny bit of chopped bacon to the stock.
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  • Hadn't thought of doing some boiled recipes, thanks, so far we've roasted, fried and grilled. Does make it seem different. Quiche- that's another one, thanks!
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  • chop into bite size bits cook them, then stir into macaroni cheese before it goes in the oven or under the grill
  • pajama
    pajama Posts: 204 Forumite
    Finely chop and mix with minced beef and the usual ingredients for a meatloaf. Gives it a nice bit of extra flavour
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  • meatloaf, hmmm, good idea.
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  • http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipes/tag-352/bacon-recipes.aspx?o_is=Search&o_s_trm=bacon

    This is a good website for recipes



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  • kerri_gt
    kerri_gt Posts: 11,202 Forumite
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    Here's a bacon and potato chowder recipe from tesco, super easy, and now making me wish I hadn't used up the bacon bits I had from a joint in the freezer ...

    http://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/bacon-and-potato-chowder.html
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  • Fry with onions & peppers add canned tomatoes to make a pasta sauce
  • shammyjack
    shammyjack Posts: 2,685 Forumite
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    2 ham shanks ( £3-60 for 2 ) from local market plus a £4.99 free range chicken from Aldi or Lidl feeds me royally for a week !
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