International Bacon Day Recipe Celebration

Thanks to all the August participants on the Merry Monday Link Parties, I have a bunch of recipes to share on this International Bacon Day
Recipe Celebration 2014! Everyone had such wonderful recipes that I decided to feature all of them 🙂 If you missed linking up the Merry Monday Parties, don’t worry. Add your bacon recipe to the inlinkz linkup at the end of this post.

Now, nobody knows who started this International Bacon Day and it’s not even a real International holiday, but do we really need a designated day to celebrate bacon? Of course not! But before we get to the bacon recipes, let’s look at some fun facts about bacon…

Bacon Fun Facts

• Supposedly, bacon is one of the oldest cured meats around. In fact, the Chinese were preserving and salting pork bellies as early as 1500 B.C.
• The word “bacon” has its roots in a combination of French and Germanic dialects.
• The unofficial International Bacon Day is celebrated on the Saturday before Labor Day.
• Americans eat about 18 lbs. of bacon a year!
• The phrase “bring home the bacon” can be traced back to 12th century England. In a town called, Dunmow, the English church promised to give any man a side of bacon if could swear before the congregation that had not quarreled with his wife for a year and a day. Hmm…if that was the only way to get bacon in the present world, I bet there would be many baconless homes.
• Holy smokes! 1 tsp. of bacon grease contains 38 calories and is around 40% saturated fat, so please eat bacon in moderation 🙂

Now that you’re armed with some bacon knowledge, are you ready for some bacon overload? Let’s get to it!

1. Potato Pizza @With A Blast
2. Bacon Wrapped Stuffed Dates @So Much To Make
3. BBQ Baked Beans @Balm to my Soul
4. Grilled Sweet Peppers Wrapped in Bacon @Home Is Where the Heart Is

1. Mango Pecan Salad with Orange Vinaigrette @So Much To Make
2. Quick Simple Pasta Salad – BLT Pasta Salad @The Coupon Challenge

1. Gifts from the Kitchen, Bacon Jam @The Painted Apron
2. Sun-Dried Tomato and Bacon Spread @Anderson + Grant
3. Bacon and Ranch Cheese Ball @Anderson + Grant
4. Creamy Corn Dip with Bacon, Tomato and Green Chiles @The Painted Apron

Made #5 and my kids LOVED it with crackers. I used a can of diced tomatoes w/green chiles in it. Will be making this again.

1. Time Saving Tuesday Baked Bacon @O Taste and See
2. Bacon Chive Cornbread Waffles @Sustaining the Powers
3. Bacon Wrapped French Toast @Joybee, What’s For Dinner

1. Chicken Bacon and Green Chile Pizza @Ms. enPlace
2. Garlic Ranch Pizza with Bacon @Somebody’s Dinner
3. Bacon Swiss Quiche @O Taste and See

1. Parmesan Crusted Chicken with Bacon @O Taste and See
2. Tony’s He-man Chili @Ms. enPlace
3. Avocado Tomato Chicken @This and That
4. Sheperd’s Pie with Bacon @Happy House and Home
5. Brown Sugar Bacon Wrapped Chicken @O Taste and See
6. Bacon Chili @Organized Island 
7. Bacon Cheese BBQ Chicken @O Taste and See
8. Shrimp in Bacon Blankets @Ms. enPlace

Tried #6 & #8, the trick to these is to not overcook your chicken and use a lot of BBQ sauce.

1. Perfect Cream Scones @That Recipe
2. Bacon Pecan Maple Sticky Buns @Joybee, What’s for Dinner

All these recipes look so wonderful. What recipe(s) do you want to try from  the International Bacon Day Recipe Celebration 2014 roundup?

If you have a recipe you’d like to share, link it up to this bacon recipe link-up. I will leave it open until the end of September!