Can you guess what I gave Rocco yesterday? Candies? Flowers? Lingerie? An oversized baby pink greeting card? A blow job? Hells no! I made my husband a bacon bouquet for Valentines Day.
I know.
I fucking rule.
My Valentine
I’ll just wait here while you ladies curse your lack of me-ness and you fellas compose love poems to lure me away from Rocco’s side. (Note to fellas: You should probably know I don’t much care for poetry. I prefer shiny things and alcoholic beverages. Stop writing poetry and get me some of those things. Mad Dog with glitter flakes does NOT count. Unless I’ve already consumed three bottles of wine. Then it might fly.)
Ok, ok, now that the applause and adoration has waned slightly, I’ll show you exactly how it’s done.
First, you have to know nifty people like Submom. She’s where I found my inspiration. Last week she tweeted a link to this mind blowing article from Fast Company. Instigator.
Second, you need to have a little free time and a lot of confidence in your husband’s cholesterol meds. Check and check.
Third, you need supplies. Now the originator of the Broquet (Sarah Tisdale) includes a hammer and nails in her materials list. Normally I’m all about stealing Rocco’s tools, but I just couldn’t see wasting a perfectly good muffin tin. So I’m going to show you my lazy/cheap method.
Shit you need:
A roasting pan
Some sort of grill you can put in said roasting pan
Tin foil
Wax paper
Toothpicks
Ribbon
Plastic forks, bamboo spears, or chopsticks
Ass tons of bacon
Defibrillator
Don’t panic. I’ve got pictures below so you can probably ignore all my nonsensical drivel and just skip to the illustrations. However, there are no pictures of vaginas, so if haven’t had your daily quota of vag references, you should probably go ahead and read the text, too. By the by, you should also probably go ahead and preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
You need some contraption to bake the bacon without it wallowing in its own drippings. Sarah did that by puncturing muffin tins. I’ve never been wronged by a muffin tin so I got all MacGyver on my kitchen’s ass and draped a cooling rack over my roasting pan. (That doesn’t sound very bad ass. MacGyver would have done something much more impressive. Let me think a moment…) Then I ripped a kitchen towel with my teeth and tied it around my thigh to slow the blood loss. (Much better.)
Take a piece of bacon and wrap it around your finger. Ignore the fact that it feels like you’re giving someone a prostate exam. Remove your finger and skewer with a toothpick. (The bacon, not your finger. Otherwise you really are going to have to find a tourniquet to control blood loss.)
Once you’ve skewered all your slices (I used two pounds), artfully arrange them on whatever contraption you’ve rigged up for baking. Then bake them. (Duh.) It took about thirty minutes in my jenky ass oven. (My oven may or may not have been mistakenly turned off during one point in the baking process.) At the risk of divulging all my secrets, I’ll admit I flipped the buds after fifteen minutes to encourage even baking.
After the bacon buds have reached your desired degree of doneness (say that five times fast), place them on some paper towels to cool and drain. When they’re cool enough to handle, remove the toothpicks (from the bacon, not your finger) and assemble your stalks. I used the plastic forks that the delivery guys insist on including with our take out. Sarah used bamboo skewers. I bet you could use old dry-cleaning hangers if you really wanted to. I wouldn’t want to, but if that’s what you’ve got – use ‘em. I’m not going to judge. (much)
On a flat surface, first lay down a piece of tin foil, then a sheet of paper (wax, parchment, whatevs). Arrange your stalks in varying heights. Wrap the tinfoil and paper tight. Then secure with a ribbon. TaDAH!
I’m pretty sure there’s an old Chinese proverb that says, “The quickest way to a man’s heart is to have a doctor crack open his chest.”
 The Pan |
 Bacon Wrapping |
 Now Put Your Stick In |
 Arrange on Grill |
 Half Baked |
 Bacon By Any Other Name |
 Spear That Bacon |
 Bunches o' Bacon |
 Le Broquet |
My pants just got shorter.
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Rocco has that effect on people.
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A. Maze. ING.
I can’t believe you did it! I thought you were just fantasizing about this, and yet here it is a reality.
oh by the way- http://www.shakespearesden.com/good-vs-evil-unicorns.html
Just in case Rocco wants to give you a post holiday playset.
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Game on! I can’t wait to recruit my cat for unicorn war games!
He did offer me a holiday play set. He was pointing at his crotch at the time, however.
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This is awesome. Imagine if there was avocado in the middle and this bouquet was for me. Are you imagining? Keep it up because guess what? I’m allergic to avocados.. so like.. if someone gave me that bacon bouquet AND it had avocado in it, I would get fatter AND my face would puff up SIMULTANEOUSLY.
So like, how awesome of a visual was THAT?
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I was totally getting into the avocado/bacon porn scene until the whole hives and swelling development. Guess I won’t be sending you any heart shaped guacamole. That’s too bad, ’cause that probably would have been pretty easy.
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Oh, you romantic fool, you!
.-= Debra She Who Seeks´s last blog ..Gung Hey Fat Choy, Valentine! =-.
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Mostly a fool. A FOOL FOR BACON!
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Though I’m a bit horrified (cuz I’m a vegetarian), I’m also very impressed. Even when I gorged meat myself, I never would have had the skills to create a bacon bouquet. Martha Stewart has nothing on you!
p.s. My husband (not a vegetarian) would like to know if he can move in with you and Rocco.
.-= Andrea´s last blog .."Bad romance" =-.
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Rocco says yes….so long as your hubby doesn’t touch his bacon.
I may never eat bacon again after handling so much of it in its raw form.
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Love of my Life says, had I not given him a such a fantastic blow job, this would have been great.
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Oh see? Bacon bouquet? Way easier!
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I’m not showing this to my husband. He will leave me in 12 bacon roses flat.
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Well played.
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I am totally going to have to make these. The most BACONACIOUS thing I’ve ever seen.
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I totally showing you my “that’s the best bacon inspired faux word in the history of the universe” vagina face.
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Can I substitute sardines? My other half had a pet pig as a child so he won’t eat bacon. Okay, he was 29 but that’s not the point. Or what about octopus? He loves octopus. How about baked beans? Fried eggs? He also likes creamed corn. I could go on. And on…
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Octopus (octopi?) scare me. Squids (just squid?) do, too. So does using the wrong plural form of nouns.
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Beautiful-
Have you tried the bacon dipped in chocolate? It’s very popular in California.
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Yet again, you one up me. Summabitch. I bow before your greatness.
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Living in the Middle East means I would need to remortgage my house to pay for all that bacon… that would be one expensive but deliciously gorgeous, mouth watering bouquet!!!
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I spare no expense (nor FDA approved statin) when it comes to my valentine.
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Because nothing says ‘romance’ like congestive heart failure.
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I made sure he’d paid the premium on his life insurance policy before handing the bouquet over.
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I bow in your general direction my dear. I can’t believe you went ahead and did it! Brilliant! I now love you even more. And tell Rocco, if he’s good to you, there will be bacon vodka in his future too. LOL.
.-= submom´s last blog ..Roses are Red, Violets are Blue, Cashews Are Nuts… =-.
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He won’t drink vodka, sadly. Something about waking up in an ER after drinking vodka in college. The moral of the story is I don’t think he’ll be overly swayed with that bribery.
But score for me on getting extra submom lovin!
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That is the funniest (and best) gift idea I’ve ever seen! Do you know your man or what!
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thanks for that
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That is awesome!
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