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Breakfast
by Laura
What a glorious Saturday morning! We had rain in Southern California, the first of 2007. It was perfect for fresh coffee, pancakes, bacon, fruit and my slippers.

As with the banana selection trick (http://www.ziamag.com/index.php/zia/blog_entry/brown_bananas/), I'm not sure that I'm not just the last person in the world, to discover this very obvious way to make breakfast a bit easier. But as I did this Saturday, I will never return to the way I used to cook bacon.
Side note: in the market this week, I did notice and elderly man selecting 1 banana from various bunches. Either he read this blog, or I really am behind on some of these things.

In an effort to keep the house from smelling like grease all day, I decided to give the bacon a try in the oven. Yes, baking it on a cookie sheet at 400 degrees was the trick that has won my allegiance. The bacon took 10-15 minutes, depending on crispness preference, it came out perfectly flat and even seemed a bit less greasy. One suggestion I read was to place the bacon on a rack set in the baking sheet so that the grease would drip to the bottom, but I didn't have one that fit my baking sheet properly, so I just put it straight on the sheet and it worked wonderfully.

Broiling would also work, but I don't suggest it would likely start a fire in your oven with all the grease splattering, and that would bring you right back to the problem of smelling up the entire house for the remainder of the weekend.

Hooray!

charlie will sometimes eat a package of bacon in one sitting. i’m sure he’ll be very excited about this news. it does upset him to go to bed smelling like grease after his 4000 calorie, 11 pm snack.

posted by hannah Thursday, October 04, 2007 - 8:17 am

I use the broiler pan so the grease drips down and can’t splash out because it’s covered. You’ll never fry bacon again after this!

posted by ann Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - 11:50 am

Brevity is the soul of wit. Now speak you mind.