Bacon

  • Better-For-Your-Belly Bacon Burgers

    thedizzydieter

    I made my first published burger recipe (Lamb, Roasted Red Pepper and Mint Burgers) a bit different but I think it’s important for all meat-lovers to have a great basic beef burger recipe up their sleeve so here’s mine! To be honest with you, I learned a harsh lesson here. I wanted to tart the mix up a bit – adding chopped parsley, garlic etc– but it was just too much and as Kieran pointed out, sometimes less is more. Minced beef, salt and pepper and diced onion – job done! There was also some kind of cheek along the…

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  • Pancetta and Avocado Salad with croutons

    thedizzydieter

    As the summer approaches every year, I seem to spend most of my time daydreaming about salad. Not about chowing down on a lettuce but of ways to make it tastier and more interesting because I’m fat and need to eat more of it. It’s a tough job but there…

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  • Bacon, stilton and onion muffins

    thedizzydieter

    Cheese muffins are one of the first things I learned to bake by myself. Of course, they weren’t anything like these – they were just simple plain muffins with a bit of paprika and some cheddar cheese. To be perfectly honest, I would probably be about 100 stone lighter today…

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  • Double baked potato skins

    thedizzydieter

    Potato skins are one of those things I’ve never really thought of as a thing to make at home. I’m of the age where you saw them on every single restaurant menu for what seemed like years. But then they seemed to disappear and, correct me if I’m wrong, I…

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