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Baconnaise Recipe: Grilled Pork Chops with Bacon Sauce

For many, Memorial Day is the official start of grilling season. Here's a great recipe to get you started:

Grilled Pork Chops with Bacon Sauce

1 cup Baconnaise®
2 tbsp lime juice
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1 tsp ground chipotle pepper
8 pork chops, about 1/2" thick
2 tbsp chopped cilantro (optional)

Combine all ingredients in a bowl, then cover the pork chops in about 1/2 of the mixture. Let the pork chops sit in the mixture at room temperature for approximately 1/2 hour. Prepare a very hot grill, and grill the pork chops until they reach an internal temperature of 160 degrees F (70 degrees C), basting frequently with about 1/2 of the remaining sauce. Serve the pork chops with the rest of the sauce.

Baconnaise Recipe: Tex-Mex Corn Salad with Baconnaise

This was posted recently by Heather Marks on Cleveland's Fox 8 website:

Tex-Mex Corn Salad

Cook 1 small bag of corn kernels (1 and a half to 2 cups). Add one fourth cup Baconnaise, one fourth cup diced cherry tomatoes, 2 teaspoons Lime juice, 2 teaspoons of Chili Powder (medium heat), and 2 Tablespoons grated or shredded Parmesan, Romano or Asiago cheese. Mix and serve chilled. You can also do a variation with corn on the cob. Just put out small bowls of the Baconnaise, grated parmesan and chile powder with a small spoon, and lime wedges. People can slather the Baconnaise and sprinkle the other ingredients directly on the cob.

Baconnaise Recipe: Baconnaise and Tomato Biscuit Appetizers

Baconnaise and tomatoes, this is verging on an obsession in our office. The flavors go so well together that we tried this recipe out as an appetizer with great success the other night.

Baconnaise and Tomato Cup Appetizers

• 1 tomato, chopped
• 1/2 onion, chopped
• 3 ounces shredded Swiss cheese
• 1/2 cup Baconnaise
• 1/4 cup fresh basil, chopped
• 1 (16 ounce) can refrigerated buttermilk biscuit dough

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a muffin pan. Mix tomatoes, onions, Swiss cheese, basil and Baconnaise in a mixing bowl. Separate biscuit halves horizontally, and place each half into cups in the mini-muffin pan. Fill each biscuit with the Baconnaise mixture. Bake for 10 to 12 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden brown.

Inventory Update/Baconnaise Recipe - Guaca-Bacon-mole

Quick inventory update - we've temporarily run out of Cheddar & Jalapeno Bacon Salt as well as Bacon Flavored Sunflower Seeds. We should have more middle to end of next week. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Today we met with one of our best partners. They mentioned that they loved Baconnaise on turkey burgers, but that the real hit for them recently was mixing Baconnaise with avocados for a delicious "Guaca-Bacon-mole." Here's the recipe (which we took a couple of liberties with):

Guaca-Bacon-Mole
4 ripe avocados (Hass are great), chilled
4 tablespoons Baconnaise
1 sweet onion, chopped
1 medium tomato, seeded and chopped
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tsp black pepper
Red chili, chopped (optional)

Mash the guacamole with a potato masher, but be sure to leave some chunks in there. Add the remaining ingredients. Serve with your favorite tortilla chips.

Happy Cinco de Bacon Mayo