What to do with bacon offcuts

crispeater

N9eav wrote:

Save them for New years. The fry them up in a pan, add to them your freshly steamed sprouts, toss them about and serve them with the roast.

may pass on the sprouts its windy already in my house lol

comping_cat

On Christmas cooks yesterday, they made egg and bacon fried rice - basically chopped up bacon, peas, cold rice, splash soy sauce and eggs (scrambled in the wok without milk, then left til the end and re added after the other ingredients fried) it looked delicious, so something we will def be having soon!!!!

nearlyrich

I had some left over on Christmas eve, I'd used it to wrap my little sausages, I browned it in a pan with some chopped onions transferred to an oven proof dish sprinkled on some knorr vegetable stock powder and layered on some thinly sliced potatoes. salt and pepper, hot oven till the potato slices were cooked and browning, you could put cheese on top too. It went in about 10 mins in our house LOL

BarmyCow

Maybe not advice you can use for right now but if you have a meat press, you could boil bacon until soft and then pop in the meat press and fridge and voila....you have your own homemade bacon loaf type thing - very yummy !

vickyj

or a really thick bacon sarnie. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

pudding06

bacon onion and potato hot pot ( bacon, liced onions and sliced potatoes in either stock or cheese sauce baked in oven till potaoes are soft)

quiche lorraine

minetrone soup - include some pasta and beans and cabbage if you have it.

chop into lardons and use with chicken, onion, mushrooms and some stock and wine for coq au vin

or as above with beef and red wine for boeuf bourgignon

or fry with some leeks for lovely leeks and bacon ( obviously lol)

carbonara yum


but dont forget once opened they will still keep for a while. I use the senses test - if they still look okay and smell okay then they probably are. fry a bit and then taste. if okay proceed, if in doubt ( IE TASTE FUNNY) then chuck it out.

my OH loves bacon sarnies made out of the thick bits. Mine's been open for well over a week and I've only a tiny bit left but its still ok.

pudds

ti1980

Catowen, that rice sounds absolutely delish. It sounds like something that I could actually make and it turns out fab! Will definitely try that out soon.

As for the OP, I would have a bacon sandwich with ketchup or brown sauce, yum yum.
Bacon and tomato pasta or could have it with rice instead for a change. Chuck in whatever veggies you have, I would use courgette, onions and peppers. Bacon goes really well with mushrooms apparantly.
A bacon and cous cous salad sort of thing, though I would have the cous cous hot so I guess it doesn't qualify as a salad!
A bacon omelette or scrambled eggs with bacon and some nice bread. Simple but very tasty. Wish I had some bacon in now!

floyd

I bought some bacon ends at our local farmers market but have no idea what to make with them. Any ideas would be most welcome

Pink.

Hi floyd,

There's an older thread that should give you some ideas so I've merged your thread with it to keep all the suggestions together.

Pink

floyd

Thats great, thanks heaps