Showing posts with label bacon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bacon. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 15, 2018

My Favorite Brother-In-Law Jack's Long Life With Bacon Secret

One does not need to spend much time with my Sister Jackie's first husband, my favorite brother-in-law, Jack, to notice bacon is a large part of his health food regimen.

A couple times a month, give or take a time or two, Jack is in Maricopa at the Ak-Chin Casino Resort buffet where he starts off with a salad, followed by a plate loaded with bacon, followed by another plate of palate cleansing salad, followed by another plate loaded with bacon.

Jack is a health food trailblazer. Just like how chocolate went from being something supposedly bad to consume, except in small quantities, and then was discovered to have multiple health benefits, such too is the case with bacon.

Apparently.

As witnessed by the 109 year old woman I saw yesterday on Facebook who attributes her long life to lots of bacon.

Consuming a lot of bacon has not seemed to have had any sort of adverse effect on Jack's health. He is a trophy winning athlete, winning Pickle Ball Tournaments where he regularly defeats opponents ranging in age from the 60s to the 90s.

Bacon has kept Jack young. He passes for being in his 50s in these tournaments, and due to looking so young Jack is regularly asked to prove his actual age when Pickle Balling against those 60 to 90 year old opponents.

I have not yet decided if I want to hop on the bacon bandwagon. I've never been a fan of bacon, except in small doses. But, I remember when I felt the same way about carrots, broccoli and garlic, among multiple other healthy food items.

I guess I should buck up and make myself eat bacon....

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Freezing Again In Fort Worth With Carrot Sweet Potato Bacon Pea Soup

You are standing on the Handley Post Office parking lot, with me, in the picture, looking a bit northwest at one of the 820/30 flyover passes that were rendered invisible due to fog 2 days ago.

If we are looking northwest that would indicate the flag is pointing to the south and being hit by a very stiff breeze from the north.

Last night when I last looked at the temperature it was 65. When I saw the temperature this morning, at 6, it was 29. Since then it dropped to 26 with a 19 degree Wind Chill. Since we hit that low we've bounced back to a balmy 29 with a Wind Chill of 25.

Anyone want to make a guess as to whether I went swimming this morning?

I've been making a lot of soup, of late, in an attempt to reverse my unsightly, decreased activity caused, weight gain.

Today's is Carrot Sweet Potato Bacon Pea Soup.

Now, I know it would seem that adding bacon to a soup is counter-intuitive to the weight loss thing. But, I bake the bacon in the oven, hence the name, rendering out most of the fat. Then it gets rinsed with hot water with paper towels sopping up some more bacon fat.

That is the Carrot Soup simmering in the picture. Lunch will be around 1. I'm also making bacon cornbread muffins. Don't be late or you won't get a muffin.