A couple years ago I saw an ad for bacon salt and knew that Tony would be all over it. I recently got an email from the company with some of their new products, and Justin of J&D’s Foods was kind enough to sponsor a pre-holiday giveaway here at My Bizzy Kitchen!
I am pretty sure we all know someone (maybe even ourselves!) who think anything is better with bacon. This company even makes lip balm that tastes like bacon! So this would be a nice little bacon basket to the bacon lover in your life. Simply leave me a comment telling me your favorite way to have bacon, whether it is a BLT, or just straight out of the pan. 😀
You’ll recieve:
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And bacon gravy, but I couldn’t find a picture of that one on their website. 😀 You have until Monday morning to enter and I’ll pick a winner using random.org. Good luck!
Tony and I had bought a 3 pound tub of cottage cheese at Sam’s Club and it was nearing its expiration date. I’ve heard about cottage cheese pancakes so I decided to make them. The first recipe I tried sucked ass. The pancake never came together so into the garbage it went. The second recipe I tried was fantastic! I adapted this from Whole Foods – I left out the sugar but added sugar free vanilla extract, and subbed the milk for buttermilk and the all-purpose flour with gluten free flour.
Biz’s Gluten Free Cottage Cheese Pancakes
- 1 cup gluten free all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup egg whites
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup cottage cheese
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
Mix dry ingredients together. Mix wet ingredients together. Combine and mix well. I used a 1/4 cup measuring cup to make each pancake. This recipe made 10 pancakes at 101 calories, 2.9 fat, 11.1 carbs, 3.4 fiber and 7.2 protein for each pancake.
I sauteed 1 apple for the topping with 1/4 cup sugar free pancake syrup and had 2 turkey breakfast sausages.
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Since I omitted the sugar in the recipe, these were more like savory pancakes – but so delicious. And filling! I ate this around 8:45 and didn’t eat lunch until 1:30! I am submitting this to Christina’s Friday Firsts 😀
I went to the gym with the intention of banging out a 5k on the treadmill using my walk/job method. But I wasn’t feeling the running – my lungs felt tight and I was struggling at 5.5 mph, so I ended up doing a hill climb walk at 10% incline at 4.0 mph for 45 minutes. It was a sweaty walk though! 😀
Lunch was leftover ancho chili and hominy stew – two servings this time since I forgot corn tortillas to make a quesadilla on the side.
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Tony sent me an email in the late afternoon: “fried rice?” Tony makes the best fried rice! I had defrosted two pork chops, so our fried rice was teriyaki pork with veggies.
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My bowl:
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Did anyone watch 30 Rock last night? They had a flash back to when Liz Lemon (Tina Fey) was younger and the picture stopped Tony and I in our tracks because it looked exactly like I did at that age! I give you Biz circa 1979! I thought I really rocked the Dorothy Hamill bob. And what was with glasses back in the day? I remember having like 4 frames to choose from!
So My Bizzy Kitchen will be posting only Monday through Friday. It’s a whole life balance thing. I know you’ll be sitting in front of your computers Saturday and Sunday wondering . . . “I wonder what Biz is doing?” Ha! 😀
Stats for Thursday:
- 1374 calories, 156 carbs, 92 protein, 42 fat and 29 fiber
- 27% of calories from fat
- 45 minute treadmill hill climb 10% incline 4.0 mph
I had a good week – I’ve worked out each day. My weigh in isn’t until Monday so we’ll have to see what the scale says. I still need to drink more water – working on it!
Good luck on the bacon giveaway and have a great weekend. See you Monday! 😀
mmmm, most everything is better with bacon!! My favorite way to eat bacon? Probably on a sandwich (blt, club, egg, etc.), but it’s also mighty good wrapped around shrimp!
Well, to be honest straight up would win. But a more creative answer would be rumaki – an appetizer I’ve been know to throwdown occasionally. Liver and bacon in any form – yum.
Love BLT Sandwiches. Yum, Bacon!
My favorite way to have bacon is any way I can get it! I really like it fried crispy with eggs in the morning. I guess that’s my favorite, but I put it in just about anything and everything–it goes with salad, sides, mains, and even dessert! It’s maybe the most flexible ingredient out there-haha! I got a bacon salt sample from the company but I haven’t found any place around here that sells those bacon products. Bummer! I really want to try the baconnaise. mmmm.
Fried with kimchi, or roasted with brussels sprouts! 🙂
Tony’s fried rice looks amazing…every grain of rice is coated with lovely sauce and flavor! And lol, the 1979 you looks adorable!
Good thing you’re not leaving, for real. I would have a heart attack.
I love bacon period…I haven’t had bacon in forever….right now I stick to the real bacon crumbles in the little packets….but growing up I hated everything…only ate BBKs when my mom fried the bacon…that is Bread, Bacon, and Ketchup..lol
omg….I remember the glasses I had growing up…so thick..and the huge plastic rims. My best friends boyfriend would always push them up on my face because the always stayed on the tip of my nose.
I like bacon but hubby LOVES bacon!!! I love it straight out of the pan. The other day I crumbled a leftover slice into my leek soup, and it was soooo good!!! I guess I really can’t pick a favorite way…
And, yes, life balance is important! Enjoy your weekends!!! But, of course, we will miss you!
I love bacon on it’s own!
I like my bacon with my breakfast, I know BORING 🙂 But That’s my favorite bacon, with eggs and pancakes!
Bacon? Oh, heavens, any way except raw. I think I like it best just right off the griddle, though, or in a BLT.
And your post title scared me! Glad it’s only for weekends and not forever! 🙂 Hope you all have a great weekend!
My favorite way to enjoy bacon is straight up! Yum, so delicious!
I have never heard of cottage cheese pancakes – they sound interesting. Maybe J would like them, he likes cottage cheese. Thanks for sharing w/ Friday Firsts and for the shout out!
Tony looks so funny w/ his wok posing! haha I love it! 🙂 I’ll miss you over the weekends! 🙂
I have one of those bacon lip balms!! 🙂 bacon ranch sounds good too…
Extra crispy with pancakes. theres something great about dunkng meat in sweep syrup
Yummmmm. Bacon!
Favorite way to eat bacon? On a cheesy, eggy sandwich 🙂
Jen
holy crap i just peed my pants! bacon flavored everything?!
Holy 1979! I love it! I also love your Tony pic! It cracked me up!
My gave way to eat bacon is chopped up in pasta dishes.
Too funny on the Liz Lemon look-alike – was that the flashback when she visited Santa and he thought she was a boy? I adore Tina Fey! Oh, and those glasses – I had Dorothy Hamill frames -they were the bomb. Giant, covering half my face – damn, I thought I looked good in them!
As someone who pretty much posts only MWF, I don’t know how you’ve kept up with your seven day a week schedule…enjoy your time off!
Oh bacon. I can’t eat it anymore – my gall bladder being removed took away both bacon and onion rings. Feel sorry for me?
I watched 30 rock and thought the same thing when they showed her. We looked just like her!
So funny!
I’ll have to try the cottage cheese pancakes, they sound delish!
Don’t enter me in the contest, but bacon lip balm? That would be awesome!
I think the Monday-Friday thing is a good thing 🙂
And I love bacon, but my favorite way is probably straight out of the pan…or on a BLT, I can’t decide! 🙂
My favorite way to have bacon is on a turkey sandwich.
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