No matter how hard I try, I just can’t seem to get away from bacon.  You may remember this article I made awhile back about the Bacon Quilt.  Well, a few weeks ago my friends and I attempted to make one ourselves.  Here are the pictures.

We used Farmland’s Hickory Smoked Bacon.  It was the heavy duty pack.  There are 40 pieces of bacon in it.  We only used 12 of them in the quilt.

Laying down the foundation of the quilt.  I felt like an artist.  My medium was meat instead of marble.

It’s started to look a little bit like a quilt.

A super sweet close up.

Someone took a picture of my cat, so here she is.  She seems mighty interested in what’s happening over on the counter.  Sorry kitty!  You can’t have any.  Only men.

We decided to cook the bacon quilt on the stove rather than in the oven, mostly because we forgot it could be cooked in an oven.  This was the beginning of our downfall.

We weren’t really sure how to move the quilt to the frying pan without losing any bacon.  We eventually decided on using two spatulas and our hands to make the move.

We ended up losing one piece of bacon on the journey.  All things considered, it was a successful move despite the casuality.

We forgot to turn on the oven fan and it got really, really smokey.  The smoke tasted like hickory.

It was then we ran into a slight problem.  We weren’t sure how to flip the whole thing at once.

We spent about five minutes stabbing it with spatulas before we finally found a way to flip it over.  The bacon started becoming more and more loose, and it wasn’t cooking evenly.  Pretty soon it snowballed into disaster.

I’m not sure how it got to this point.  It really is ugly.  I guess we just didn’t weave the bacon tight enough and it imploded on itself.

This was supposed to be the meal of men.  It turned instead into a meal of embarrassment.  The bacon quilt had turned into regular bacon.

We did manage to salvage it however.  In the breadbox we found homemade biscuits.  We sliced them open and made bacon biscuit sandwiches.

The bacon biscuit sandwiches were brilliant, and almost erased the memory of the failed bacon quilt entirely.

Jack’s Take

Our attempt at the bacon quilt was not successful.  However, some very imporant lessons were learned (like use the oven instead of the stove).  Also, we discovered bacon biscuits.  Bacon Biscuits are awesome.

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We will be trying this again later.  Stay tuned.

- jack

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