Category: Breakfast

Ham, Gruyere, and Spinach Strata

ham, gruyere, and spinach strata // my bacon-wrapped life

Are you finding yourself in the midst of a too-much-leftover-ham problem this Easter Sunday afternoon?

 Well, to be clear. Extra ham is not so much a problem, PERSAY, as an opportunity. An opportunity to make as many delicious hammy things as possible in the name of efficiency and non-wastefulness. These few post-Easter days aren’t QUITE as exciting as the post-Thanskgiving turkey-leftovers days, but they are pretty darn close if you ask me.

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Creamy Mango Green Smoothie

creamy mango green smoothie // my bacon-wrapped life

I swear, it’s merely a coincidence that my first blog post as a born-again California girl is a green smoothie.

Cross my heart. I made this bad boy when it was the middle of dreary, cold February in Chicago, when it seemed like everyone around me was sneezing and sniffling and I was like, “GREEN SMOOTHIE, HAAAAAALP!” I promise you, my bacon consumption will not decrease one single bit after moving to The Juicing State.

But can’t we have our bacon and our green smoothies, too?

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Maple Bacon Ricotta Pancakes

maple bacon ricotta pancakes // my bacon-wrapped life

You know what’s better than pancakes with a side of bacon?

Yeah, that would be pancakes with bacon INSIDE of them.

Whelp. That happened. Can I get a #YOLO? Is that still a thing that people say? If it is, I think bacon pancakes qualify as YOLO-worthy material.

(I swear I’m 25, not 75, as that prior paragraph might lead you to believe. I really don’t know what to say re: my massive uncool-ness. I’m sorry?)

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