For the second year in a row, our product was the first product featured from among over 100,000 products at the Fancy Food Show.

See it here: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=7985780

One of our twitter peeps alerted us to this dish, which was featured in the movie V for Vendetta, and supposedly tastes great with Peppered Bacon Salt (or any other flavor for that matter).

Eggy in a Basket with Bacon Salt

• 6 slices whole wheat bread
• 6 eggs
• Butter
• Bacon Salt to taste

Butter bread slices on both sides. Cut a 2 inch circle in the middle of each slice using a cookie cutter or small glass. Place buttered bread slices on a non stick griddle pan, using medium heat. Add a bit of butter to the center of the bread and gently crack your eggs into the hole.

Sprinkle eggs with Peppered (or other flavor) Bacon Salt.

When the eggs begin to set around the edge of the hole, flip them. Finish cooking eggs to your liking (over easy or over medium).

The buttered bread centers can be grilled or toasted to sop up any extra egg.

This is an amazing but true story sent from one of our favorite people, known as @spamspam on twitter, for your viewing enjoyment. We hope that it brings together bacon lovers and mayo lovers everywhere. 

This is a true story.

As the tale begins, I was already a huge fan of Bacon Salt. The moment Baconnaise was finally available, I immediately placed my order and awaited the goods. When it arrived, I immediately left my office and picked up my best friend Anna, who I had a long-standing crush on--and who was also as big of a fan of mayonnaise as I was of bacon. We went to the nearest Subway shop, ordered a footlong chicken breast sub with only veggies on it, and proceeded to slather it with Baconnaise. Needless to say, we were both in condiment heaven as we found that Baconnaise was even better than either of us was hoping, and we finished off that jar in only a few days.

A few days after this experience, Anna and I fell deeply in love, and shortly thereafter, decided that we would spend the rest of our lives together. Without hesitation, I credit Baconnaise for sparking the love between this bacon lover and the mayo lover, and since our love blossomed out of a jar of Baconnaise, I can assure you that it will be a core part of our wedding banquet.

Thank you, Justin and Dave, for inventing Baconnaise and sparking the love of a lifetime.

Sincerely,
Spam, your official Bacon Bishop of Baltimore (http://bacn.me/8qv) and founder of the Ministry Of Bacon

This makes a great appetizer or an entree, and eliminates a lot of the effort involved in wrapping scallops in bacon, while infusing the entire scallop with a delicious bacon taste.

Grilled Bacon Salt Sea Scallops

• 10-15 sea scallops
• 1-2 lemons
• 2 tbsp any flavor of Bacon Salt
• 1 tsp brown sugar
• 2 tbsp olive oil (if grilling)

Grilled version: Prepare a very hot grill. Cut sea scallops in half down the middle, and toss with 1 tbsp of any flavor of Bacon Salt (we especially like Applewood, Peppered, Jalapeno or Original), olive oil and brown sugar. If you use Maple Bacon Salt, you can omit the brown sugar. Place scallops directly on grill (you can use skewers if you have them) for 3-5 minutes on each side. Remove from grill and squirt lightly with lemon juice.

Oven version: Cut sea scallops in half down the middle, and toss with 1 tbsp of any flavor of Bacon Salt (we especially like Applewood, Peppered, Jalapeno or Original) and brown sugar. If you use Maple Bacon Salt, you can omit the brown sugar. Place scallops on baking sheet and broil in the oven for 5-6 minutes on each side. Remove from oven and squirt lightly with lemon juice. As an optional twist on this version, mostly for color and presentation, you could wrap the scallops in spinach and skewer with a toothpick before broiling.

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Long live bacon!
J&D

We made this for a party the other day and served it with Frito's Scoops. This can also be served with any kind of tortilla chip, any type of fresh bread, or regular potato chips. If you make it, your guests will be bacon for more.

 

BLT Dip with Baconnaise

• 1 cup Baconnaise
• 1/2 cup regular mayonnaise
• 1 cup sour cream
• 1 large tomato (or 2-3 roma tomoatoes, peeled, seeded and diced (you can use canned if you drain them first so it's not too runny)

Mix together all ingredients, and serve with some extra diced tomatoes on top.

Some optional twists to this recipe include adding 2 cups of cheddar cheese and baking at 350 for 20 minutes; adding chopped chives or green onions; or sprinkling real bacon bits on top or into the dip.

We're proud to announce that Bacon Salt has been chosen as QVC's Food of the Month for July. As part of this promotion, we have a special configuration just for QVC that includes large containers of Original, Hickory and Peppered Bacon Salt plus a jar of the very popular Cheddar Bacon Salt, which you can't get in stores yet. There's a limited supply that they'll be selling throughout the month at a low price point (normally they sell three Original, Hickory and Peppered big jars at $19.97 - this configuration sells at $18.60), and you can either watch us on air or order it anytime through their website here.

Here is the QVC Food of the Month broadcast schedule:

• Today (7/2) - airing will take place between 12 noon and 1pm EST
• 7/5 - between noon and 1pm EST
• 7/7 between 6pm-7pm EST
• 7/11 between 3pm-4pm EST
• 7/12 between 2am-3am EST
• 7/27 between 11am-noon EST
• Other airings may be added - keep checking back here

One final note: a HUGE thank you to all of the great people at QVC for their help, support and business. They took a big chance on a couple of crazy guys who had a dream to make everything taste like bacon, and we're really grateful for the opportunity. See you on the air!

Justin & Dave

We've been working hard to expand our distribution for Baconnaise. Here's the most up to date list of retailers that carry it, and we'll be posting these to our website soon:

• QFC
• Piggly Wiggly (some, not all)
  
• HyVee
• City Fish
• Copps
• Rainbow Foods
• Lunds and Bylery's
• Jewel-Osco
• Central Market
• Food City
• Marsh
• Publix
• Raley's
• Wegman's

One note - we ALWAYS suggest that you call in advance to check availability. It can sometimes take awhile to get on the shelves, and it varies from store to store.

Internationally, we've also shipped some Baconnaise and Bacon Salt to a distributor in Australia and New Zealand (last we heard the shipment is going through customs now), and Selfridges in the UK will be carrying it within the next month or so (if you're interested in being notified when it gets there please email us at welovetheuk (at) baconnaise - dot- com). We're also working hard on Kroger, we hope to hear back from them soon, as well as HEB and Costco.

If you have stores you think we should be in near you, we've had a lot of success stories of people going in and asking their local store manager to carry it. To those of you that have done this already, thanks for your support! 

Online it's available at Amazon.com, Costco.com and our own website at Baconnaise.com.

Long live bacon,

J&D

We've been pretty busy around here in BaconLand, but that doesn't mean that we've been ignoring our troops. Quite the contrary, we've been sending record numbers of shipments to the Middle East to soldiers that have been deprived of their ability to eat bacon on a regular basis.

These include shipments to:

• Navy Hm2 Michaels from Lejeune, NC, who's unit's work in Afghanistan has been profiled on MSNBC, Fox News, and NPR. They've been called "America's Batallion." This is his 2nd deployment. One of our twitter followers asked us to ship him some bacon-flavored love.
• We didn't make this up - Air Force Ssgt Bacon, who's also from NC and is currently serving in Bagram, Afghanistan, has some bacon-flavored goods on the way to him and the 30 or so troops he serves with. His wife reached out to us letting us know that one of their traditions is to send bacon-themed items to him while he's out in the field.
• Specialist Whyte will be getting a shipment of Baconnaise and Bacon Salt as well as Bacon Lip Balm, courtesy of his friend David who has helped us in our warehouse periodically (and done a great job). Spec Whyte's job is to provide transportation security for trucks that carry supplies to other soldiers in Iraq. When stateside, Spec Whyte enjoys spending time with his 9 month old and 5 year old children.
• We're supporting a dodgeball tournament for troops in Virginia coming up this weekend and just supported a football game here at Fort Lewis in Tacoma.

Whether you agree with the wars or not, these soldiers and their families are giving up a lot to support their country. We hope they enjoy the packages coming their way!