The Official Bacon Salt Blog

In honor of Fantasy Football season

For those of us with bad knees, bad backs, bad necks, bad feet, etc etc there's one way for us to really feel like we're part of the action: fantasy football. It's the time of year where grown men build imaginary teams of football players and talk endless smack to each other. I used to be a skeptic, but I actually got on the bus two years ago and haven't gotten off.

So in honor of this yearly event, we recently created a Bacon Salt Fantasy Football Draft Package. You get 6 of each flavor for the price of 5, and shipping costs are reduced because you're only sending to one address. It's not only a way for all of you fantasy football teammates out there to share their love of football and bacon, but also a good way for coworkers to pool their resources together.

So go deep, get some Bacon Salt and be sure to talk some smack to whoever doesn't get some.

Bacon Salt World Tour

The Bacon Salt World Tour starts today at the Puyallup Fair. We're making progress in our quest to make everything taste like bacon - new stores are coming on board every day. But we really want to take this to the people, 1.3 million of them at the Puyallup to be exact. And millions more at some of the other stops we're working on.

At the Puyallup, you'll either find us at our booth inside in the pavilion, the Weird Al Yankovic concert (live and in person you can really hear the sarcasm) or at the Mutton Bustin' competition, where you hop aboard and ride a sheep until you fall off. Mutton Bustin' is supposedly just for kids, but we'll see about that. So ride some sheep and then come on by and get some Bacon Salt, which will be available in large quantities sans the dreaded shipping charges.

Delicious breakfast

We're sitting at the 13 Coins Cafe in Seattle, home of outrageously tall brown leather booths and fine 24 hour dining - it's really like an institution here. Corned beef hash with Hickory Bacon Salt might be one of the 5 best things we've ever combined Bacon Salt with. Delicious!

Bacon Salt - So Good!

There's a great new food blog that deserves a read called So Good. Written by a corporate communications professional by day/comic by night (insert joke here - there are so many ways we could run with that) named Jon Eick, he's one of the freshest, funniest and most entertaining voices to enter the food blogosphere.

And now there's a delicious review of Bacon Salt. His epiphany moment? A Bacon Salted Bloody Mary, one of our absolute favorite uses of Peppered Bacon Salt, which makes the world's best Bloody Mary (which, incidentally, is best enjoyed as a 7am pick-me-up before a college football game). A quick, well-written excerpt:

Over the next few days, as I began to try Bacon Salt on different foods, my initial hesitation turned to excitement. I mixed a healthy amount of the hickory into some burger patties I made and the flavor of the burgers was astounding. I put an ample amount of the original on some cheese fries and loved it. Bacon Salt on my corn on the cob proved to be fairly good, as did butter and Bacon Salt on my mashed potatoes.

But then, came the moment that made me a Bacon Salt fanatic. After mentioning to Dave that I wasn’t a fan of the peppered, he suggested that one use for it is to add it to Bloody Mary’s. It just so happens I am a huge fan of bloody mary’s and make them all the time, morning or night. Four nights ago I made my regular bloody mary and added in some Peppered Bacon Salt.

Ladies and gentlemen, what I tasted that night was a whole new world of flavor excitement. I love, love, love bloody mary’s. But now, I had a way to make them even better. I experimented with the amount of bacon salt I used, trying bloody mary’s with both overpowering and weak bacon flavor. Once I found the right balance, I was in heaven…a tasty bloody mary gets that much tastier with a subtle hint of bacon flavor.

Recipe contest entry: End of Summer Salad

Here's a great, easy salad to try as summer winds down. This was submitted by Laura as part of the recipe contest (there's still time to enter - send your recipes to recipes@baconsalt.com!).

Simple Summer Salad:

One Hass avocado, chopped.

One hard-boiled egg, chopped

One medium-size tomato, seeded and chopped

One handful of broccoli sprouts

Toss all in a bowl with Bacon Salt to taste. I happened to use Original flavor but I'm sure it would work great with Peppered or Hickory too.  I found myself adding another sprinkle during the meal -- more bacony goodness!