We had our own Bacon Olympics at a friends house. The ground rules were that everyone has to make something with bacon in it and bring a growler of beer.
Well living within 5 minutes of over 10 breweries the beer was more than covered. When we got there of course a few over achievers had 5 gallon mini kegs of their own home brew so everyone didn’t really need to bring a growler, but the end result worked out nice!
While others like making beer, I’m more interested in meat. It was fun because two other people used my home made bacon in their dish. One guy made an awesome Bacon Macaroni and Cheese. The home made bacon had a big impact on the flavor and it was fantastic. The other guy made man candy, basically bacon that has cayenne pepper and brown sugar on it, another outstanding offering.
I knew that I had a reputation to uphold, and I was not about to disappoint. I came up with Bacon Bratwurst. I took 2 lbs of scrape bacon and mixed in to 3lbs of port shoulder and regular bratwurst seasoning, stuffed and grilled. Let’s just say, there were no sad faces nor any leftovers.