Because bacon is already cut into nifty little strips, you can turn it into things, as shown here in our recipe for the bacon weave. But not only is it pliable, bacon is delicious. These bacon bowls are fantastic for filling with scrambled eggs for breakfast or mashed potatoes for dinner. Try them out.
How to Make Sweet Potato Fries
Sweet potato french fries are baked, which makes them a slightly healthier option than deep fried french fries. They’re also delicious. This is a very simple recipe for making sweet potato fries.
How to Make Macaroni and Cheese With Bacon
Everything is better with cheese on it. Most things are better with bacon. This recipe for macaroni and cheese uses bacon to make it better. So make it.
How to Cook Salmon in a Pan
Pan-searing salmon is the quickest way to prepare salmon – short of microwaving it. Cooking salmon on the stove in a frying pan is one of the easiest ways to prepare a quick, healthy, delicious meal.
How to Make Sweetened Salsa
This is a simple recipe for sweet homemade salsa. While less popular than a good spicy salsa, a sweetened salsa can be a nice variation.
How to Make Homemade Frank’s Red Hot Sauce
Here’s the deal, you can’t actually make homemade Frank’s Red Hot Sauce. You can make a very similar cayenne pepper sauce, but it won’t be the same.
You don’t have a giant factory churning the stuff out, and you probably don’t have the time to age your cayenne pepper sauce, either.
This copycat recipe will be close enough.
Frank’s Red Hot Sauce Ingredients
You’ll need:
- A bunch of red cayenne peppers
- Some white vinegar
- A couple garlic cloves
- Sea salt (preferably.) Regular salt will do if you don’t have any of the fancy stuff.
How to Make Hot Sauce
Wash your peppers and cut off the stems. Use a bunch. For the sake of this recipe we’re going to be using twenty.
Throw them in a saucepan and add about two cups of white vinegar, half a teaspoon of sea salt, and three chopped garlic cloves.
Bring everything to a light boil and reduce to low heat to simmer.
Simmer for about 10-15 minutes, or until the peppers are very soft.
Pour it all into your handy dandy food processor and blend extremely well. Super extremely well. Frank’s Red Hot Sauce is basically liquid, so make sure it’s completely smooth, and very thin.
And then pass the whole thing through a fine mesh strainer. (Or if one’s not available, a homemade paper towel strainer.)
Make sure you keep what the strainer pulls out, you can use it as an add-on for other hot sauce recipes.
Tips for Making and Using Hot Sauce
- Because this hot sauce is loaded with vinegar you can store it in the fridge for an extremely long time. Many hot sauce recipes started out as a preservation method for fresh hot peppers.
- Make lots, it’s good.
- If you prefer a thicker, hotter sauce, try out this recipe for Homemade Habanero Hot Sauce. There’s also a slightly mildly version here, for Jalapeno Hot Sauce.
How to Coddle an Egg
Egg coddling is a method to use barely cooked eggs in some recipes, such as homemade caesar salad dressing. This is a quick and simple guide on coddling eggs.
A coddled egg is basically a lightly poached egg. This method is used to lightly cook an egg for recipes where you won’t be cooking the end product when containing eggs.
To coddle an egg, boil just enough water to cover the egg or eggs. Crack the egg into the water, and leave it for just about a minute.
Remove from heat, and remove the egg from the water with a slotted spoon. Or a regular spoon and some fancy moves.
And that’s it. That’s a coddled egg.
(Alternatively, you can use something like a coddled egg cup, but that requires buying something.)