My Inner Cook’s To-Do List, Part I

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I’ve wanted to learn how to cook for some time. When I went down to Southern California over winter break, my friend Mark took me to a chain of grocery stores by the name of WinCo Foods, from which I picked up a handful of spices in bulk on the super-cheap (four fistfuls of basil? At WinCo, it’s, like, fifteen cents). Some of you might reply, “you’re going nuts over a frickin’ grocery store?” until I tell you that, for us here in Northern California (or at least, the San Francisco Bay Area), such a thing does not exist.

Anyway, I was looking up recipes to help me put those spices to good use (as in, not making instant ramen and tossing in some peppersteak seasoning) and picked up a couple from the Internet to try…and all of them happen to have bacon in them, which I enjoy quite a bit (I guess I won’t be losing weight any time soon, hahahaha). Listed in order of preconcieved difficulty from easiest to hardest:

Easy: Bacon Cinnamon Buns (pictured above): Admittedly, BaconToday is a surreal site. Following a link to it from the Bacon Explosion recipe (see the Hard recipe below), I found this sucker, and I’m curious. It seems like it’s a pretty simple deal, too.

Medium: The (Double) Bacon Hamburger Fatty Melt: I was thinking of whether or not I should attempt to do the original Fatty Melt, and then I found a link to the updated version. I’m down.

Hard: The Bacon Explosion: So my friend Jay linked me to this and I was all like “damn, I want to try that, it looks ridiculously heartstopping”. It blew my mind so much that it led to the creation of this post.

Blog posts will be coming for each (and some experimentation a la that Burrito Helper) as I go. Assuming I survive, of course. If I don’t, though, I might also end up taking some people with me.

We’ll end up having an eternal bacon barbeque using the fires of hell.