Here’s to 2009!

New Year’s Eve Ball, 1978. Photo credit: The New York Times.

We’ve recently had the pleasure of meeting and working with George, the inventor of the Orbit Brush. The Orbit Brush is the best, easiest way to brush tangled hair. Even cooler, it was invented by a dad trying to find a better (i.e. painless) solution for brushing his daughter’s hair. Check out their site for some cool Orbit Brush videos and links to buy online.

The people have spoken (well, DawnSummers has commented) so here’s the November bacon post.

Way back in November the Brooklyn crew were invited over to Jersey City to check out Alceste and Dawn2’s new home and watch some football (in hopes of furthering DawnSummers football knowledge in preparation for her quiz this upcoming Sunday). And what goes great with football (other than beer and chips and salsa and pizza and pretzels and…)? Bacon of course! As you probably know by now, bacon goes great with everything. Say it with me Kearns, bacon goes great with everything.

So I used this opportunity to cook up the November package from the Bacon of the Month Club. You may recall that I used Alceste’s kitchen before (remember that hilarious Superbowl when Tom Brady was so embarrassed he had to later injure himself so he could hide away in his lovenest with Giselle?) Well, this was a brand new Alceste kitchen so bacon cooking was on.

November’s BoMC

November’s selection was the typical applewood smoked bacon - I think 75% of the bacon from the BoMC has been applewood smoked.

lovely new cooktop

cooking in Alceste’s second kitchen

1/4 of the package cooked

I cooked up the whole package and Alceste commented that it was a lot of bacon to eat. I had no fear that we would scarf it all down and other than the one partial slice that ended up in Dawn2’s coffee, we demolished the whole plate (well, not the plate, but the bacon on the plate).

I should be getting one more package from the BoMC and I still have a garlic-infused bacon selection that needs to be cooked in someone else’s kitchen so let me know if your kitchen is available. (Sorry CK - not planning on bringing a package to Vegas with me. LJ - still need to cook at your place. Charles - plan another poker game so I can come cook a package on Hawthorne St.)