sprinklefingers

okay, enough. i’ve told you that i got sick - like a million times now - and i’m sure you’re sick (ha!) of hearing about it.

but i have this one other thing to tell you about:

when i was sick i did all my grocery shopping online. no, not just the specialty flour binge, but also our real, actual groceries.

our local market will do your shopping for you - and deliver it all - for the low-low price of $9.95. it really can’t be beat. someone else does all the work and i only have to fork over $10? incredible!

anyways, one of the weird things about online grocery shopping is that you don’t get to touch your fruits & veggies yourself. of course, you can enter all kinds of notes while online such as: make sure the bananas are green. or, please make sure the milk doesn’t expire in less than a week. or, we like our onions the size of softballs, etc. this is my favorite feature of the online grocery shopping experience because i have a lot of opinions about food. (and then i realized it’s someone’s job to read all my crap and then put it into action in the middle of a grocery store…and i start to think that they must think something like, ‘this woman is completely crazy. seriously, enough about expiration dates! if you wanted to get this particular about your food, you should have come to the damn store yourself!’)

ANYWAYS, did i tell you i was sick last week? oh, i did? good.

moving on: i accidentally ordered two pounds of bacon while getting my groceries online. that’s a lot of bacon, even for us.
so, here’s what i did (and why i’m writing this post) and what you can do when you have too much bacon (god, it is possible):

freezing bacon the easy way!

1. get some waxed paper or parchment paper.

2. tear off a long sheet of paper.

3. place one slice of bacon near the edge of the piece of paper, and turn over once to completely wrap the bacon. place another slice on top, turn over to wrap. repeat until you’ve wrapped up all your bacon. it could take a few sheets of paper, naturally.

now, i think it’s best to do smallish bundles of bacon - say, six to eight slices each - that way you can simply grab the amount you need for one meal (or snack,) and defrost it - easy peasy. and because you separated the slices with paper, you don’t have to deal with thawing the bacon completely to get it separated (or ripping the bacon apart while attempting to separate it) - and can go from freezer to oven lickety split!

i want bacon. now.