Last year when I was in Iowa for the Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival, I had the pleasure of meeting two guys who have rocked the bacon world recently – Aaron Chronister and Jason Day. So what makes these two guys so special? They are the brains behind the Bacon Explosion. If you haven’t heard about it, then apparently your Internets were broken for the better part of 2009.
But just in case your Internets were actually broken…the Bacon Explosion is a phenomenon that swept the nation last year. This culinary masterpiece involves wrapping bacon around sausage that is also wrapped around bacon. And then you BBQ it. Yeah, you read that right. Scared? Maybe just a little? Trust me, it’s actually insanely delicious – there’s a reason it’s all people were talking about last summer.
Well the popularity of the Bacon Explosion led to a book deal for these two creative guys, and now you can own their cookbook – BBQ Makes Everything Better – and make your own bacon explosion at home. They even share a recipe for making a breakfast casserole out of leftover Bacon Explosion, should you for some odd reason have leftover Bacon Explosion. Aaron and Jason are very active in the BBQ world, and the cookbook also contains many, many other wonderful recipes that involve using a grill.
They’ve put together a really fun cookbook that’s perfect for summer – I highly recommend you pick up a copy for yourself and get your Explosion on this summer.