2013/09/04

A Very Good Bad Idea

Sometimes I do things that I know aren't safe or good for me, because they just sound so good I can't resist.  I'm a pretty healthy eater in general, but I also like many foods that are less than good for me.  Yesterday I was frying up some bacon that I somehow ended up with.  It must have been very on sale or something when I bought it, because in general I'm not a huge bacon fan and I would never buy the stuff for myself.  As I was frying it I thought, hmm, it would be a shame to let this tasty bacon grease go to waste, what else can I make in it while it's in the skillet?  I had sauteed yellow squash and eggplant in a bit of bacon grease last weekend and then mixed the bacon and squash together to make a pretty good meal that probably wasn't all that terrible for me.  I opened the fridge and the first thing my eyes settled on was was some waffles I had made a couple days earlier.  This gave me a great idea.  Some wonderful Canadian came up with a magical concoction called maple bacon peanut butter.  I have not had a chance to try this, but it just sounds amazing, so I thought I would try to recreate the flavor.  I grabbed one of the waffles and fried it up in the bacon grease, then put on maple syrup, peanut butter, ice cream, bacon chunks, and dark chocolate syrup.  It tasted absolutely amazing, but is probably one of the least healthy things I have ever eaten.  Oh well, it's not the worst thing in the world to do a bit of nutritional offroading from time to time, and today my stomach is reminding me that it prefers salads and vegetable stir fry, even if my taste buds prefer peanut butter and ice cream.


1 comment:

  1. Wow - I actually think a few bites of this would have been pretty good. But an entire waffle is perhaps where you went wrong :). Should have called Nate, he would have been over in a heartbeat!

    ReplyDelete