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About the author
Niamh Sheilds – Scientist turned food writer and the blogger also known as eat like a girl, home cook and recipe creator, author of ‘Comfort and Spice, Instagram here, Twitter here.
What’s it all about?
I think we can safely say that the clue is in the title, BACON!
Chapter titles include Bacon Brunch, Bacon Bites, Feel-Good Comfort food, Feeding Friends, Bacon BBQ, Bacon is sweet, Bacon Pantry and even Bacon Curing, it’s basically all about the bacon.
What’s been made so far?
BACON SAUSAGE BREAD – How could we resist this as the first recipe to make? Bacon and sausage braided together in a brioche style dough, what’s not to loaf about that?
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BACON AND EGG CURRY – Now we all know that the words bacon and curry do not traditionally go together, egg curry yes but bacon no. We can now conclude this will become a regular in our home, it’s a great staple cupboard recipe, if indeed you always have bacon and eggs in which you do surely or you wouldn’t be reading this, and it’s exactly a recipe for 2.
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BUTTERMILK BACON WEDGE SALAD – I’ll use Niamh’s words here because this is the truth, “There is something cooling and soothing and oh-so-satisfying about this retro salad”. Iceberg is the only lettuce for this, do not dare to use any other, no one is to posh for iceberg.
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What’s next on the ‘to do’ list?
Cracklin’ cornbread with jalapeno bacon beans
Candied bacon flapjacks
Bacon hot sauce
Where to buy it?
BACON – THE COOKBOOK is self published, sold and distributed by Niamh herself and available here were you can also buy some funky bacon tote bags and tea towels to match.