Loaded Bacon Cheddar Bread

[HarveyDarkey]

The best bacon cheddar bread you will ever bake.

Ingredients

6 cups all purpose flour
3¼ cups warm water
2 tsp instant yeast
2 tsp salt
2 tsp sugar
2¾ cup cheddar cheese, fresh grated not bagged
10 strips cooked thick cut bacon, chopped and divided
fresh ground black pepper to taste

Instructions

In a large mixing bowl combine water, yeast, salt and sugar. Allow mixture to sit for several minutes.

Add flour, two cups of cheese, ½ bacon and fresh ground black pepper. Stir with spoon until combined. Dough will be shaggy. Don’t stress if it looks messy. It will come together in the end.

Cover with a towel and allow to rise in a warm place for an hour.

After an hour, turn dough out onto a floured board and knead for a few minutes. It does not need to be completely smooth. Just knead it long enough to come together and place dough into a loaf pan.

Cover loaf with remaining cheese and bacon. Cover with towel and allow to rest for thirty minutes.

Bake in a 400º oven for fifteen minutes. Cover loosely with foil and reduce heat to 350º and continue baking for another 25 minutes.

Remove foil and allow to bake for another 5 minutes

[pinboy3niner]

1. You had me at bacon :)

I'm going to try this recipe! It's probably good with diced green chiles, too.

[fizzgig]

4. i bet it's killer with green chilis

great idea

[trixicopper]

8. Green chilies would be good,

But I'm thinking jalapeno! Yummy!

[In_The_Wind]

2. Yum!

[CherokeeDem]

3. Oh my...

My dad's 87th birthday is tomorrow and we are going to have brunch on the weekend to celebrate. Being the bacon crazed man that he is....I am making this for him...

Yum Yum....

Thanks for sharing...

[HarveyDarkey]

10. Let me know how it comes out & his reaction

I'd really like to know.

[fizzgig]

5. i'm dropping this in cooking and baking

this looks so tasty

[HappyMe]

6. Yummy!

Thanks for this bacony deliciousness!

Bookmarking!

[warrprayer]

7. drool!

[LeftofObama]

9. I might just have to give this a try.

Thanks!

[sheshe2]

11. Would you pass me a slice of that, Harvey?

It looks fabulous!

[my2sense]

12. This is going

to make me start baking again. Looks delicious!

[Honeycombe8]

13. Sorry. It looks, well, sort of like upchuck.

Not to mention it sounds horribly unhealthy.

When you get older, you start viewing the goodness and badness of different foods. It's inevitable...or you die or get sick.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

14. HD....did you make this? I am wondering about the cheese....if you need very sharp nt

[HarveyDarkey]

15. I have not, but I will soon

I would guess the cheese would be whatever your taste prefers.

I have made several variations of the bacon bomb explosion though.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

17. I am very down on cheese lately. Seems like everything I buy just doesn't

even taste good - or as good as it used to. And, cheddar - to me - unless you buy the very sharp, tastes like nothing. Cheese courses are becoming very popular at restaurants now. I would love to learn more about cheeses and I definitely have making mozzarella and ricotta at home on my list. A bag or bar of mozzarella in the store sucks to high heaven. What happened to those long strings of cheese when you bite into a pizza ? Have you ever tried to make cheese ?

[HarveyDarkey]

20. I have not tried to make cheese,

and you're right about the quality lately.

[R B Garr]

23. This post wasn't to me, but I've done the homemade ricotta if you're interested

I followed either Anne Burrell's or Ina Garten's recipes from the Food Network (I forgot which one now). It was pretty easy -- just add the vinegar and the milk/cream will curdle and then you strain it for a long time. In fact I made the ricotta for Martha Stewart's ricotta cake for Easter last year. We were very impressed with the fresh ricotta, especially for that cake. I swore I would keep making it but haven't since that cake last year. It was fun to do and very rewarding.

If you have any Sur La Table's near you, they have workshops on cheese making. It's one of their classes that I will take since there is probably special material/equipment/technique involved, so I think it would be worth the price of admission to the class. If you come across anything about cheese making in your research, I hope you share it here. It's on my list, too.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

24. Thanks RB - vinegar I have, I have been waiting to find some kind of acid - so very

good to know ! Actually, there is a local homestead village nearby....a large group - almost like a commune - is near by.They make everything there - raise cattle, milk cows, make cheese, bread, pottery. And teach bread and cheese making. On my bucket list.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

18. PS Had the pleasure of having lunch on Arthur Ave in the Bronx not too long ago

Best meal ever - homemade ricotta, two large meatballs, and sauce. indescribably delicious.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

19. Wow...great video ! I just got mesmerized while he was basket weaving the bacon

Is this what you tried? The outside looks burnt? guess it's not. Not too much
of a purely ground pork dish. Wonder how it would taste with say a 75-25 mix of beef and pork?

That guy is cool (love the thermometer and "It's always a good time to bbq"

Thanks...will bookmark this link !

[HarveyDarkey]

21. Similar to this

You need to check out the BBQ Pit Boys channel on You Tube, if not their website.
They've got lots of great recipes.

[R B Garr]

16. Oh my my. That looks really naughty

Yum! That's a meal in itself. I might have to break my current No Bacon rule.

[kurtzapril4]

22. Then you could cut yourself a slice

and spread it with bacon jam! Yum!