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Welcome to another Crispy Bacon and Jellied Fish Eye post, where I post about my current favorite food news (which I love, like crispy bacon) and my least favorite food news (which is similar jellied fish eye, which makes me vomit a bit in my mouth).

Shall we do it to it?

Crispy bacon #1 : Mommy's Time Out Wine

No wonder my mom was always so giddy.

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I met up with an old friend for dinner, and we wanted to check out Lula Cafe's Monday night farm dinner. My photos sort of suck, but the food was so delicious, I just wanted to do a quick post about it. You might remember Lula Cafe from this post. Their brunch is amazing, pretty much one of the best I have ever had in Chicago. Their dinner menu always looks equally delicious, but a bit more out of my price range. Enter the $28 three course farm dinner. The menu is preset, but it changes weekly and always include fresh and local produce.

First course: Corn soup with pancetta

Corn soup with pancetta

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My ginger and cinnamon-baked peach with vanilla bean ice cream.

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Leena's kick-ass rosemary, garlic and sun dried tomato focaccia bread.

I often forget that I know how to cook and bake. You ever do that? I'll just be sitting there, craving a nice hunk of focaccia bread that is crisp on the outside, chewy on the inside, and with just a hint of seasoning, and I'll spend hours trying to figure out where to buy such an item. Then it hits me--didn't I pay some people a bunch of money a while ago to teach me how to cook and bake? And isn't the hardest thing to do in bread baking just waiting for the damn dough to rise (I may be oversimplifying a bit here, but go with me)? Waiting that could be filled with television watching and Internet surfing?

I was so there.

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Warning: this may be the most adorable post that has ever graced this thing they call "the internets". If you have an aversion to all things adorable or tend to spontaneously vomit at the sight of cuteness, go here, look at some food porn. And maybe buy me some chocolate.

Picture a box crammed full of 6 week old kittens, fluffy puppies with bows, 7 baby chicks so fuzzy their feathers are almost translucent, photos of several adorable child stars including but not limited to Mary Kate Olson and Gary Coleman, and a few of those posters with the babies dressed as flowers...if you can handle that, then by all means, proceed. But you still might want to buy me some chocolate...maybe with bacon in it. I'm just saying.

Are you ready for this?

Hunter, the cutest kid ever...and he likes to eat. Pretty much my dream man.

I warned you.

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A little canning never hurt nobody.

Would someone please tell my friends and husband that it is perfectly normal for a 27 year old woman to like canning food? And that it does not mean she is a senior citizen? So what if I happen to enjoy the art of preserving food and a good game of bingo...dinner at 4pm...high-waisted pants with an elastic stretch waistband...oh shit.

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Ah, smoked chipotle cheddar. Five pounds of dairy product just doesn't get better than this.

Like any good Midwestern gal, I love cheese. In fact, at one point in my life, 90% of my cooking involved cheese products of some sort (coincidentally enough, this was the same time my ass started to looked like it was smuggling a wheel of Parmesan all the time). Now that I've been through a few twelve step programs, had some shock therapy and am finally starting to understand what moderation means, the American Cheese Society had to go host their national meeting in Chicago. Thanks, guys.

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It's crispy, crunchy, slightly salty, a bit smoky, really savory and totally umami on your tongue. It comes from a pig, tastes great in dinner or dessert, and makes Jewish people really uncomfortable. It's crispy bacon, my idea of the perfect food.

It is jiggly, gooey, and sometimes served cold. Think Jello, only fish-flavored, and the unmistakable feeling that someone is watching you eat. It shakes and wobbles as it slides down your throat, and if you are lucky enough to chew it, you certainly know from the texture what the heck it is you are eating. It is a jellied fish eye, the worst food I can possibly think of.

Put them together and what you do get? Crispy Bacon and Jellied Fish Eye, my newest blog post of awesome and not so awesome things in the world of food. This week, we got 2 crispy bacons and 2 jellied fish eyes.

Crispy bacon #1: PB Loco Dark Chocolate Duo

Prepare yourself for Reeses peanut butter cups in a jar.

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