SIMPLY RECIPES – Sunday morning bacon was a huge part of my childhood. My mom would lug out her ancient griddle and make the whole family crisp bacon and her famous egg sandwiches.
It was a special way to spend weekends together. To this day, when I smell bacon cooking, I get a pang of nostalgia for those lazy Sunday mornings I got to experience as a kid.
Now that I’m a mom of three, I try to keep the Sunday morning brunch tradition alive, but with my spin on it.
Often, we are too busy on the weekends to pull out all the stops, but every so often we have breakfast for dinner. This is where my kids first tasted what they now refer to as “fancy bacon.”
If you thought there was no way to improve bacon, let me introduce you to this smoky treat’s BFF: brown sugar.
A few months ago during one of our breakfast-for-dinner nights, I decided to sprinkle a little brown sugar on my thick-cut bacon while it roasted in the oven, and the rest is history.
Ina Garten’s Easy Bacon Upgrade
I originally got this idea from Ina Garten. You see, over the past holiday season, we welcomed a newborn into our family.
For all three of my children, my go-to programming for nighttime feedings has been old episodes of “The Barefoot Contessa.” It’s the cooking show equivalent of a plush weighted blanket …
