Bakin' Bacon - in a Blizzard

We woke up to another amazing amount of snow this morning.  We knew it was coming, but... wow!  Twice in six days we got snows totaling 10+ inches each.  Thursday it was Storm "Q" and this morning (Tuesday), "Rocky" came to visit!  This snow is so beautiful because there is so MUCH out there!  It's not even very cold so you can really walk around and just breathe it all in!  Everything in our area is pretty much closed, thankfully, so we are home today enjoying a much appreciated day off from work.

While Doug went out to shovel, I put on a pot of coffee and started some breakfast.  This morning I made bacon and our favorite homemade biscuits.  My favorite way to make bacon is to bake it on a broiler pan.  There is no mess, no smoke, no burned spots on the bacon, and no burned ME from popping grease.  It turns out perfect every single time.  You also can pretty much cram it all on the broiler pan, stick it in the oven and walk away.  No flipping bacon nor grease popping action going on.

This morning while the bacon was a-bakin', I opened the front door to give a "look-see" at the magnificent beauty that was outside.  Wow!

This is what I saw:

I hadn't told Doug that I was making breakfast.  But as I was standing there with the front door open, he looked up from his shovel with a huge smile on his face and said, "I SMELL BACON!"  I had just earned gold stars!

Here's how I make Bakin' Bacon AT HOME MY WAY:

 

Baked Bacon 

 

Ingredients and Utensils Needed: 

• 1 package of bacon
• 1 broiler pan (which should have a deep bottom piece and a tray that sits on top with slits in it)
• 1 oven

 

Directions: 

 

Turn on your oven to 400 degrees.  Lay all of your bacon everywhere you can squeeze it over your broiler pan like this:

 

 

Put your broiler pan loaded with bacon in the oven (it is not necessary to preheat the oven - there is nothing to burn).

 

 

Bake until you see your bacon looking like you prefer.  I like mine crispy.  I don't remember how long this took.  You don't have to flip the bacon.  Just let it keep baking in there until it looks done. 

 

 

This is how mine looked when I took it out of the oven (be careful because the grease will have drained into the bottom part of your broiler pan and could slosh out.):

 

 

 Don't forget to save the bacon grease for frying chicken!

 

And here are some more peeks at this beautiful snow!

 

 

These pine trees are very precious to us!  They were suffering this morning with all the weight of that snow!

 

 

 

This snow is so wet!  It's like big piles of meringue!

 

 

 

Our deck! 

 

 

Blizzards bring out the best in our kitchens!

I made this beautiful rainbow bread during another Missouri blizzard.  What do you like to cook during bad weather?

 

 

 

Rainbow Sandwich Bread

 

 

Gina