Seriously. How good does that look?
I like bacon. What omnivore doesn’t? The week of the Super Bowl, Serious Eats did a recipe a day that involved bacon. I saw this one, and just had to try it. It starts off with onions fried in bacon grease– how can it be bad? I made it twice, once for a Super Bowl party and once as an appetizer for dinner at some friends’.
Hot Bacon-Blue Cheese Dip, taken from The Bacon Cookbook by James Villas.
- makes about 1 3/4 cups -
Ingredients
Ingredients
6 thick slices lean smoked bacon
1 small onion, minced (I chopped, and I liked it chunky!)
2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
1/2 cup whole milk (Skim or 2% or half and half will work too. I used skim; that’s all I had and it worked fine)
1/2 cup lager beer (AKA what to do with the last of the Miller High Life left over from your last party)
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Cayenne pepper to taste
1/2 pound blue cheese, crumbled (Purchased at the Murray’s cheese shop at Kroger. Yum.)
Your favorite breadsticks (I used pretzel chips, and they were perfect!)
Procedure
1. In a large skillet, fry the bacon over moderate heat till almost crisp, drain on paper towels, and crumble coarsely.
2. Pour off all but about 2 tablespoons of fat from the skillet, add the onion, and stir 3 minutes. Add the flour and stir 3 minutes longer. Whisking, add the milk and beer, then add the Worcestershire and cayenne. Bring the mixture to a low boil, whisking, cook for 2 minutes, and remove from the heat. Add the bacon and blue cheese and stir till the cheese is melted.
3. Transfer the dip to a small bowl and serve with bread sticks.
This stuff is freaking awesome. It is incredibly rich, but a little spicy (use more cayenne for that) and very cheesy. Terry said it’s a lot like my Roqueamole: the first bite is just plain delicious; the second is rich, the third is too much. We had a lot of leftovers. When we took it to my friends’ house for dinner, I sent the rest to the firehouse with him the next day. The firefighters LOVED it (look for a post about them coming soon!).
I highly recommend having someone nearby who knows CPR. Just saying.
