The title isn’t just the perfect juxtaposition of two perfect things to grab your attention. Nor does it mean I am eating bacon by the fireside. I just want to pass along a nice tip. Do you have a fireplace? If you cook bacon in your microwave on top of paper towels (as is often recommended, to absorb grease), hold on to those greasy paper towels in a ziplock bag. Then, when you want to light a fire, use them as part of your kindling – or throw them in after the fire is started, just for fun. With all that pork fat, they burn really well, and give off a little bit of an extra bacony scent too! I just tried it for the first time, but I’ll do it again for sure!
Now, if only I had the fixings for S’more’s…
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About Fr Matthew Green
Currently parochial vicar at Holy Family Parish, on Cape Ann (serving the churches of St. Ann, St. Joachim, and St. Anthony). I moved to the area in early August '11, and am very happy to be in such a welcoming community and beautiful location!
One of my hobbies is photography. You can see my photos
on Flickr and buy prints of some of them
on Fine Art America.
I am a daily contributor to
GoodMorningGloucester (GMG for short), a blog by and about the community of Gloucester specifically and Cape Ann in general. The content is diverse, ranging from the beautiful and sublime to the earthy and occasionally offensive. I hope my contributions are of the former kind, not the latter. So, while I cannot endorse all the content that is posted there, I am grateful to Joey (the founder and admin of the blog) for giving me space to make my contribution.
I also have my own blog,
Perpetual Learner, which mostly includes my homilies and some re-posts from GMG, but also sometimes has other content, such as my personal reflections, videos I like, etc.
The title isn’t just the perfect juxtaposition of two perfect things to grab your attention. Nor does it mean I am eating bacon by the fireside. I just want to pass along a nice tip. Do you have a fireplace? If you cook bacon in your microwave on top of paper towels (as is often recommended, to absorb grease), hold on to those greasy paper towels in a ziplock bag. Then, when you want to light a fire, use them as part of your kindling – or throw them in after the fire is started, just for fun. With all that pork fat, they burn really well, and give off a little bit of an extra bacony scent too! I just tried it for the first time, but I’ll do it again for sure!
Smoked bacon flavored s’mores…. hmmm. Since grease can flash fire suddenly, I would say stick to more conventional fire starting methods, like, umm, whale oil.. Think of that fragrance!
Flash fire? Fireworks! Cool! Really, though, I don’t think there’s that much grease in the paper towels (and there aren’t that many paper towels), and I wouldn’t do this with my face near the fire. The paper towels should be placed well inside the fireplace. So, I don’t think there’s really any danger.