Bacon Blue Cheese And Tomato Bread Recipes

BACON, BLUE CHEESE AND TOMATO BREAD RECIPE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°.
• Stretch out dough into a long thin rectangle. Use a rolling pin to help, if you need to.
• Crumble the strips of bacon onto half the dough into long direction.
• Top with blue cheese, then tomato.
• Fold the uncovered side over the filling.
• Whisk together oil and garlic, then baste top of dough with it.
• Roll up the dough, then baste with more garlic oil mixture.
• Put on baking sheet.
• Bake for 45 minutes.
• Slice and serve warm or cool.

TOMATO AND BLUE CHEESE SOUP WITH BACON

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
• Spread the tomatoes out in an oven-proof dish. Sprinkle with the garlic and some salt and pepper. Place in oven and bake for 35 minutes.
• Heat the butter in a large pan. Add the leek and carrot and season with salt and pepper. Cook over low heat, stirring frequently, for about 10 minutes, until softened.
• Stir in the broth and baked tomatoes. Bring to a boil, lower heat, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
• Add the blue cheese, cream and parsley. Remove from heat and let cool slightly, then transfer to a blender and process until smooth, working in batches if necessary. Taste and adjust seasoning.
• Ladel into warmed bowls and sprinkle with crumbled bacon.

BEER BREAD W/ BACON, SUN-DRIED TOMATOES & CHEDDAR

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375-degrees. Cook bacon until crisp. Drain on paper towel.
• Sift dry ingredients in to a large bowl. Add bacon, tomatoes and cheese. Break up any clumps with your fingertips. Add the oil and beer and stir just until combined. Pour into a greased 8 inch loaf pan. Smooth the top of loaf and sprinkle with remaining cheese.
• Bake in center of oven for 55 minutes or until cooked through. Let cool in pan on wire rack for 10 minutes before removing from pan. Let cool an additional 10 minutes before slicing. Leftover bread is great toasted or for making grilled cheese sandwiches.

BACON, CHEESE, AND TOMATO DREAMS

Steps:

• Cook the bacon; drain.
• Get the cheese ready.
• Slice the tomato.
• Put the bread under the broiler till brown; turn over.
• Put the slice of cheese on the bread, and then top with the tomatoes.
• Put back under the broiler.
• Take out and put on a plate; sprinkle with a tad of salt and pepper.
• Top with bacon.
• Enjoy.

BACON CHEESE & TOMATO - BROILED OPEN FACE SANDWICH

Steps:

• Pre-heat broiler.
• Place bread on a broiler safe pan. Top each slice of bread with a slice of cheese then a slice of tomato. Depending on how big your tomato slice is you may want to put on two but keep it a single layer of tomato. Cut each slice of bacon into 2 pieces. Then lay 3 of the pieces on each sandwich. Broil until bacon is crisp and cheese melted. Bread and cheese may get a little burnt. That makes it better!
• Note: Originally I put raw bacon on the sandwich and cooked it all the way under the broiler. Now I cut the strips in half and partiality cook in micro-wave and then put on sandwich and broil to finish cooking.

BLUE CHEESE AND BACON BREAD TWIST

Steps:

• The day before you want the bread, make a sticky paste by mixing together 1/2 cup of the flour, 1/2 cup of the water and two teaspoons of yeast in a bowl.
• When the ingredients are combined, cover the bowl with cling film and leave in the fridge overnight.
• The next day, the mixture will have bubbles on top and smell fermented.
• Add remaining flour, yeast and salt to the bowl, and start adding the remaining water a bit at a time, until you get a sticky consistency.
• Flop the dough onto a floured work surface, sprinkle more flour on the dough and knead for 3-5 minutes or until smooth.
• Put the dough in a large bowl, cover with cling film and leave to rise until doubled, between 1-2 hours.
• Meanwhile, fry the bacon until crispy and then cut into small pieces.
• Crumble the cheese into a small bowl and mix with bacon.
• Take dough and turn onto a floured work surface again, working bacon and cheese into the dough this time and kneading for another 3-5 minutes until smooth.
• Put back in bowl and leave for another hour to rise by about a third to a half.
• Take dough and split into three equal pieces.
• On a lightly floured surface, roll each piece into a sausage shape, about 20 inches long.
• Take the three "sausages" and lay them out in front of you, each at a slight angle to the other.
• This part is hard to describe, but just imagine you are braiding hair.
• You will need to pinch the three pieces together at one end and then, once they are attached, take the piece on the left side and bring it over the centre piece.
• Then take the right piece and bring it over the centre piece.
• Repeat until all the dough is braided and pinch together at the end.
• Lay bread on a greased and floured baking sheet, cover with cling film and let rise for one final hour.
• Bake for 30-35 minutes in an oven at 200°C or about 350°F.

HEIRLOOM TOMATOES WITH BACON, BLUE CHEESE, AND BASIL

Steps:

• Cut 1 round from each bread slice with cookie cutter.
• Cook bacon in a 10-inch heavy skillet over moderate heat until crisp, then transfer to paper towels to drain. Pour off bacon fat from skillet and reserve fat (do not clean skillet).
• Heat 1 1/2 tablespoons oil in skillet over moderate heat until hot but not smoking, then toast 3 bread rounds, turning over once, until golden brown, about 3 minutes total. Transfer toasts to a rack to cool and season with salt and pepper. Toast remaining 3 bread rounds in 1 1/2 tablespoons more oil in same manner.
• Cook shallot in 2 tablespoons reserved bacon fat and remaining 3 tablespoons oil in a small heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring, until softened, about 2 minutes. Add vinegar and simmer, whisking, until emulsified, about 1 minute. Season dressing with salt and pepper and keep warm, covered.
• Crumble bacon. Arrange bread rounds on 6 plates and divide tomato slices among them, stacking slices and sprinkling some basil and bacon between slices. Sprinkle cheese and remaining basil and bacon over and around tomatoes. Spoon some of warm bacon dressing over and around tomatoes and season with salt and pepper.