Aspara-Bacon

What makes everything in life better? Bacon. Unless you're vegetarian...then I guess bacon wouldn't help you out much unless you like the smell of bacon and can find you a bacon candle. Ooh! Do they make those. I have to go check.

Look what I found! Bacon Candles!

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There you go. Father's day? This may be the only candle a man might possibly be excited about. Or it'd tick him off because it's not real bacon.

But let's get back to the post.

Asparagus.

Some like it. Some do not. I'm a recent convert to asparagus. It's so yummy pan roasted in garlic butter. Mmmmm. But you know what would make it even better? Bacon.

The Original Pins:

http://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/bacon-wrapped-asparagus#.UA91Nug4OjY.pinterest

http://www.justapinch.com/recipes/side/vegetable/bacon-wrapped-asparagus-3.html

Now that looks yummy! Alisa and Danielle found these two pins and realized the genius of them. Bacon and Asparagus. Yes! Well...maybe no?

The Pinstrosities:

I think one of the keys to this is the bacon to asparagus ratio. Now I know for most of, when it comes to bacon, is this is the ratio we want:

Sadly, this ratio doesn't work great when it comes to bacon wrapped asparagus.If you scroll up and look at the pictures from the original pins, you'll see that they either, A. Wrapped one fat piece of bacon around multiple asparagus spears, or, B. wrapped a skimpy piece of bacon around one spear of asparagus.

Another thing that might help here is the cooking time. Obviously you want to cook your bacon until it is done, but at the same time you don't want to cook the asparagus until it's ready to fall apart. The more fresh your asparagus is, and the less dried out, the better this will work also; you won't have as shriveled up of spears after they are cooked.

Need more bacon ideas? Want to see more bacon fails? Check out our other bacon posts!