Recipes Archives - My Bacon-Wrapped Life

16
Feb
2014

Blueberry Breakfast Quinoa

categories: Breakfast, Recipes, Whole Grains

My fascination with whole grains is still going strong. I blame the January 2014 issue of Bon Appetit.

It’s totally not even about health, it’s about the FLAVOR, people. (Although according to the rules of math and science, if it’s healthy, I can eat twice as much…right?) Anyways, ever since I started cooking with whole grains more, I’m suddenly like…why would I make this with white rice when farro would taste so much better? Quinoa and I are likethis. Whole grains just add a whole new flavor profile, one that’s rich and nutty and deep and chewy and delicious, and I love exploring all the ways out there in the world to make them taste gourmet and make you completely forget how good for you they are.

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10
Feb
2014

Salted Caramel Brownies

categories: Bar Cookies / Brownies, Recipes

I have an incredible salty-sweet treat for you to whip up for your sweetie this Valentine’s Day.

Or you know, your Galentine’s Day/Palentine’s Day/average Tuesday. Basically whenever.

Ironically, my “sweetie” is not that into these. He is anti-sweet and salty. I’m still convinced something happened to his taste buds as a child because this just does not make any sense to me, but whatever. More for me. Basically what I’m saying is that I made these as an early Valentine’s Day gift to myself. Because LOVE YO SELF, amiright?

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02
Feb
2014

Bacon & Egg Farro Salad

categories: Bacon, Recipes, Salads, Savory, Whole Grains

Guys…I HATE winter.

I hate that it takes me 5 solid minutes of intense bundling to run to the grocery store. I hate that it gets dark at 4pm. I super-hate running on the treadmill. And I super-super-hate polar vortexes. I grew up in Southern California and my body just. can’t. deal.

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26
Jan
2014

Blue Moon Cupcakes

categories: Cakes and Cupcakes, Recipes

Today is part two of our Super Bowl food series! It’s also the tail end of Meg and Brad’s Moving Weekend Extravaganza. Yeah, that’s right, we no longer live in a teensy tiny studio apartment. In our new place, there are ROOMS. With different PURPOSES. I can’t even talk about the additional counter space in the kitchen. I’m getting giddy just thinking about it. Anyways, the point is that as I’m writing this, I’m sitting on a couch in the middle of our new living room surrounded by a million errant cords and stacks of books and mounds of cardboard boxes that are just waiting to be dealt with, and I’m ignoring all of it to talk about Blue Moon cupcakes.

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