Bacon Wrapped Asparagus

Did you know today was National Bacon Day? Here's a tasty bacon treat that is super easy to make.

Bacon Wrapped Asparagus

Preheat oven to 400. Spread about 1 cup of light brown sugar on a plate. Pat one side of bacon on the brown sugar. Roll the asparagus and bake until crisp, about 30 minutes.

Garlic & Eggplant Dip

I made a garlic and eggplant dip for a small gathering I'm having tomorrow and could have sworn I had the recipe on here. But since I don't and since friends are asking for the recipe, here it is. I've made so many variations of this, but here is this one.

Garlic and Eggplant Dip

Ingredients
1 large eggplant
5 cloves of garlic, chopped
1/2 grape seed oil
1 tbs of ground mustard

Preheat your oven to 350. Cut the eggplant into quarters. Stab with a fork. Lightly coat the eggplant with oil and roast for about an hour or until it's super soft. After it cools, remove the skin from the eggplant, and cut into big chunks. In your blender, blend the eggplant oil, mustard seed, and garlic.

Now, I have made variations of this. I normally use EVOO, but I had grape seed oil on hand. I've also added two hard boiled egg yolks to the mix. Sometimes, I'll add a splash of lemon juice. If I want it more creamy, I add about 1/4 cup light mayo and 1/4 tsp mustard.

It's great with crackers and veggie. Enjoy!

Cornmeal BBQ Breakfast Sausage Patties

It's a mouthful, but I was doing some reading for my ORG711 class for my doctoral program at #UOPX when I had an idea for breakfast sausage. My "ideas" come to me at weird times. And of course it happens when I'm studying. So I tried. it.

You'll need...

1 lb mild pork sausage

1 small onion--works better finely chopped

1 egg

1/4 cup honey BBQ--I use Sweet Baby Ray's

1/2 cup corn meal

2 TBS maple syrup

Mix, make patties, and fry.