Mmm... bacon (and more...)
Bacon-flavored vodka? Now you’ve heard it all.
“Everything is better with bacon. It’s one of my favorite foods,” said Don Yovicsin, the owner of Jake’s Dixie Roadhouse in Waltham. “So when one of my friends mentioned the idea of bacon and vodka, it piqued my curiosity.”
He fried a batch of Niman Ranch thick-cut applewood-smoked bacon, added the crispy bacon to a large infuser jar with Absolut vodka, then let it sit for four weeks. After the liquor was smoky, he filtered out the bacon pieces with cheesecloth, chilled the vodka to congeal the bacon fat, then removed it via coffee filter.
The remaining smoky liquor was bottled and put behind the bar, where Jake’s is serving it in a variety of cocktails.
“The clear winner has been our Bloody Mary,” said Yovicsin. “It’s too perfect with the smoky bacon flavor.”
Recipe: THE BACON BLOODY MARY
1 1/2 oz. bacon-flavored vodka
6 oz. Bloody Mary mix
Barbecue rub
1 Slim Jim
1 lime wedge
Mix the bacon-flavored vodka and Bloody Mary mix together. Rub rim of tall glass with barbecue spices. Pour mix into glass. Garnish with Slim Jim and lime wedge.
Makes 1 cocktail.
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I love bacon. I eat it in sandwiches, I love it next to some scrambled eggs, I wrap it around chicken legs and barbecue them, I've wrapped it around asparagus and green beens and grilled it. Bacon just tastes damn good and can make anything it touches taste good too.
But Vodka? Ugh!
Would you try it?