Summer’s bounty is still in full swing – including here at Burghilicious. I’ve got four awesome events here for you starting this week, plus a giveaway of tickets to Pittsburgh’s only bacon celebration. Keep reading!
Toyota Farm to Table Tour
Thursday, August 5 • 10am – 2pm
Market Square, Downtown
This week’s Market Square Farmer’s Market gets a big, fun upgrade this week when the Toyota Farm to Table Tour stops by. Around the country, the tour engages local chefs to provide complimentary tastings featuring fresh, local produce at farmer’s markets. Stop by Market Square during your lunch hour Thursday to sample bites from Big Burrito‘s Bill Fuller, Six Penn Kitchen‘s Keith Fuller, Dinette‘s Sonja Finn, Habitat‘s Andrew Morrison and four others – and take a ride in a Toyota hybrid.
Grass-Fed Beef Cookoff
Saturday, August 7 • 4 – 7pm
Jamison Farm, Latrobe
I’m a huge fan of Jamison Farm but I’m an even bigger fan of COOKOUTS! And this Saturday, if you can still get tickets, is an awesome cookout adventure in the country: a 100% grass-fed beef burger cookoff! A dozen farmers will submit their grass-fed beef for judging by food writers and professional chefs from around the Pittsburgh region. You bring a picnic blanket and side dishes, and for $20 per person ($15 for PASA members) you get an awesome grass-fed burger and live entertainment on the farm. Jamison Farm is truly gorgeous – don’t miss it! Buy tickets today because they are going to sell out.
Mr. Baconpants Bacon Bash
Saturday, August 14 • 11am – 4pm
Harris Grill, Shadyside
There’s something you’ve got to love about a blog whose only categories are Bacon, Beer and Everything Else. Mr. Baconpants (a.k.a. Jason Mosley), #1 Bacon Enthusiast of Pittsburgh and maybe The World, has been loving lard multiple times a week since 2004 (!!!). He has teamed up with the Harris Grill, famous for Tuesday is Bacon Night, for Bacon Bash. For $35, you get a variety of small plates featuring bacon, including a bacon pierogie, mini-BLTs, bacon cupcakes and of course, bacon-wrapped tofu, plus a t-shirt and a cocktail. There’s also an optional bacon-eating contest. Bacon lovers should buy tickets in advance at the Mr. Baconpants store. I swear he used to sell Bacon Pants there as well…
But wait! This is the one! Mr. Baconpants has very graciously offered Burghilicious readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to Bacon Bash, a $70 value! See below for how to enter. You’ve got one paragraph to read while you think about how much you love bacon.
Moo-y Local Dairy Dinner
Monday, August 16 • 6:30pm
Legume Bistro, Regent Square
Dairy, dairy, how I love you! From buttermilk to cheese to just plain milk, sample some of Pittsburgh’s finest local dairy offering at this four-course prix fixe event. The menu includes Brunton Dairy buttermilk soup; house-made ricotta ravioli made from Monongahela raw milk, served with local grass-fed beef ragu; and Riverview Farms goat milk panna cotta with fresh August fruit. The evening also includes a between-courses milk tasting with Legume Bistro chef Trevett Hooper, a passionate advocate of and expert on local dairy sources. Reservations are required. Call Legume at 412-371-1815 to reserve your place. $50 includes all food and corkage; BYOB.
And now for the giveaway details:
Giveaway rules:
- Leave a comment on the blog (not Twitter, not my personal Facebook page) about why you love bacon. Trash-talking about bacon-eating prowess is encouraged.
- Make sure to use your real email address, because otherwise I won’t be able to reach you if you win. Email addresses are never, ever published on the site, so you are always safe from spammers.
- You must leave your comment by 11:59 p.m. EST, Monday, August 9.
- Only one entry per commenter.
- If you aren’t able to go to Bacon Bash on Saturday, August 14, you’re still free to comment, but please make it clear in your comment that you don’t want to be in the contest so I can pick a different winner. It would be a shame for these tickets to go to waste!
Le Fine Print
No purchase necessary. Winner will be selected at random by Burghilicious using Random.org. All entries received after the giveaway comment deadline will not be considered. Duplicate entries will be disqualified. Entries that do not follow the entry requirements will not be considered. Winner will be notified via email and will have 24 hours to confirm receipt of the email. If the winner does not reply within 24 hours, another winner will be selected. Giveaway has been sponsored by Mr. Baconpants.
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Mr. Baconpants is an epic name.
I don’t know if I love bacon quite enough to write a lyrical elegy to the smoked, cured meat, but I do enjoy my bacon. My fried egg sandwiches would be a sad panda were it not for bacon fat in which to fry the egg. I’d trash talk, but I confess I have no bacon eating prowess. I ate bacon dipped in chocolate once, but I came away feeling a little dirty and wondering how two things I love so much can be so strange and off-putting together.
I would totally party with a guy named Mr Baconpants, though.
Bacon is so easy to love because it meets all of the prerequisites:
1). Fried to the point of being burnt, which enhances the texture and taste
2). You can eat it by the pound and still long for more
3). It goes well with so many other foods
A bacon haiku:
Beautiful Bacon,
Without you, eggs are lonely
Crispy and Sizzly!
While I am far to modest to express my prowess in polite society, I think this is just about the funniest comic strip to ever feature bacon: http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF117-Bacon_Egg.gif
While I would never claim to DISlike bacon, it’s not usually my first choice when dining out. I generally spring for sausage. Even when cooking at home, my boyfriend’s raucous cries for bacon make me sigh a little. Sure, it’s good, but is it…is it great? And then – and then! – the fateful night, only this week, when the boyfriend stepped up to the bacon plate. He wanted bacon and, dammit, he wasn’t going to let me sour his meaty interlude. You guys, I have been cooking it WRONG. I have been handling it in a manner that can only be described as – ahem – hamfisted, and without any of the love this nectar of the gods truly deserves. It was AMAZING. I must have eaten half a pound and still went back, glassy eyed and slurring my words, for more.
Long story short: the boyfriend now cooks all the bacon in this house. It seems only right to reward him for opening my eyes to bacon with…more bacon!
Bacon is the lynchpin in the 4 essential food groups. The addition of at least one of these items to any meal will make it taste better: Bacon, Butter, Cheese, or Ranch Dressing.
Bacon
Sizzlin’
Crispy
De-licious
Bacon
There is something almost magical about how limp, uncooked bacon transforms within minutes in a hot skillet to crisp, tasty goodness!
And the winner is… Commenter #6, Justin! I’ll email you with the details.