Beef Bacon Recipes For Your Next Playoff Party

Submitted By: Richard Ouellette
Your favourite team has finally made it to the playoffs. To celebrate, you've invited over all of your friends to enjoy the game. Your team jersey is ready to be worn. You've got a bucket of beer chilling. You're ready to take some bets and distribute some light-hearted razzing about whose team is going to beat the other. You're almost all ready to go... except for one key ingredient: What will you feed your guests? You don't want to be the lazy host who opens a bag of chips. You don't want to just serve up something you bought at a grocery store. You want to give them something just as great as the game you're about to play… and if your team loses, you still want to give them something to remember the event by!
Why not surprise your guests with food that is a familiar party favourite but with a unique twist that is guaranteed to be the subject of conversation long after the game is over: Serve your guests party food with beef bacon.
That's right: BEEF bacon. It looks and tastes and smells just like good, old-fashioned "regular" pork bacon but it comes from the familiar (and healthier) cow!
Serve them Beef Bacon Wrapped Smokies. Here's how to have them ready in an hour and a half:
Ingredients:
1 pound sliced beef bacon, cut into thirds
1 (14 ounce) package beef cocktail wieners
3/4 cup brown sugar, or to taste
Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
2. Refrigerate 2/3 of the beef bacon until needed. It is easier to wrap the wieners with cold beef bacon. Wrap each cocktail wiener with a piece of beef bacon and secure with a toothpick. Place on a large baking sheet. Sprinkle brown sugar generously over all.
3. Bake for 40 minutes in the preheated oven, until the sugar is bubbly. To serve, place the wieners in a slow cooker and keep on the low setting.
Or try this one: Killer Beef Bacon-Cheese Dogs, which will be ready in half an hour.
Ingredients
8 slices beef bacon
8 all-beef hot dogs
8 hot dog buns
8 slices Swiss cheese
1/2 cup barbeque sauce, or amount to taste
1 small red onion, diced
Directions:
1. Preheat an outdoor grill for medium-high heat. Lightly oil grate, and set 4 inches from the heat.
2. Place the beef bacon in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium-high heat until evenly brown. Drain on paper towels.
3. Place hot dogs on grill; cook until browned, 5 to 8 minutes, turning once, or until done to suit your taste. Lightly grill hot dog buns.
4. To assemble sandwiches, place a slice of cheese and beef bacon on each roll. Add a hot dog, top each with 1 tablespoon barbeque sauce, or desired amount, and red onion.
These delicious treats will not only liven up the party, they're healthier for your guests! And when you deliver the punchline – "that's BEEF bacon you're eating" – your guests will be surprised… and they'll probably request the same food again next year when your team makes the playoffs again.

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Surprise Your Guests With Beef Bacon

Submitted By: Richard Ouellette
Want to surprise your guests with something completely unexpected? Next time you have friends, family, neighbors, or coworkers over for dinner, try this:
Picture this: Your guests come over for a meal. You enjoy drinks around the barbecue as you cook up some chicken and bacon shish kebobs. Then you all sit down at the table and you start to eat. You dig into mouth-watering bacon-wrapped shrimp with a delicious vinaigrette dressing.
Later, you eat the succulent chicken-bacon shish kebobs. Everyone asks for seconds... and even thirds.
The entire meal is a hit. Your guests as you what your secret ingredient was. You shock them by telling them that you didn't use bacon… pork bacon, that is. Rather, you used beef bacon. Bacon made from beef! It looks and tastes and smells just like pork bacon but it is so much healthier.
Here's what you served them:
Chicken and Beef Bacon Shish Kabobs
Ready In: 1 hr 45 min
Ingredients:
* 1/4 cup soy sauce
* 1/4 cup cider vinegar
* 2 tablespoons honey
* 2 tablespoons canola oil
* 10 large mushrooms, cut in half
* 2 green onions, minced
* 3 skinless, boneless chicken breast halves - cut into chunks
* 1/2 pound beef bacon, cut in half
* 1 (8 ounce) can pineapple chunks, drained
* skewers
Directions:
1. In a large bowl, mix the soy sauce, cider vinegar, honey, canola oil, and green onions. Place the mushrooms and chicken into the mixture, and stir to coat. Cover, and marinate in the refrigerator at least 1 hour.
2. Preheat grill for high heat.
3. Remove the mushrooms and chicken from the marinade and shake off excess. Pour the marinade into a small saucepan and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 10 minutes; set aside.
4. Wrap the chicken chunks with beef bacon, and thread onto skewers so that the beef bacon is secured. Alternate with mushroom halves and pineapple chunks.
5. Lightly oil the grill grate. Arrange skewers on the prepared grill. Cook 15 to 20 minutes, brushing occasionally with remaining soy sauce mixture, until beef bacon is crisp and chicken juices run clear.
Beef bacon is taking the grocery stores by storm! With its great taste, this healthier option is perfect for everyone – whether you're trying to eat right or adhere to religious or social customs or try to figure out how to live well in spite of a pork allergy.
Beef bacon creates the same flavors that you've come to love and expect with bacon, but it provides all the benefits and advantages of beef! Next time you're at the grocery store, try some beef bacon and get ready to wow your guests! Then, take any recipe that calls for bacon and simply substitute beef bacon for the same great taste but with surprising results.
Beef bacon will surprise and delight your guests and you'll create a meal that people will talk about with their friends for months to come. It all starts with some good friends, a dinner invitation, and delicious, attention-getting beef bacon.

Published At: Isnare.com