New Bacon-ings

Episode: Human Flesh (S1:E1)

Favorite Moment: Bob delivers an impassioned speech, and his children lock him out of the restaurant.

Favorite Quote: "You're my family, and I love you... but you are all terrible."

Did you know that the show was originally about a canibal family? Or that Tina was going to be a boy? That is how Bob's Burgers was pitched to FOX.

8 seasons later, and it is hard the imagine the Belcher Family as anything other than the loveable, disfunctional, itchy-crotch-ed, musical family we have grown to love.

When we first see Bob rallying his family and giving his infamous line about how terrible they all are, you can see the burger of the day in the background: "New Bacon-ings" (Which Louise changes to the "Child Molester - comes with candy")

This is the first recipe in the "Bob's Burgers Burger Book - Real Recipies for Joke Burgers" written by show's creator Loren Bouchard. The recipes were created in a blog titled: "The Bob's Burger Experiment," by Cole Bowden. The Burger Book contains 73 reciepes, and I plan on making one a week, and bloging about it à la Julie & Julia.

My blog stands on the shoulders of Loren Bouchard, Cole Bowden, Julia Child, Julie Powell, and all of the amazing characters in Bob's Burgers. I hope to honor all of them with this blog.

I chose New Bacon-ings because it's the new year, and because I like bacon, and it's the pilot of the show. It had been a long time since I watched the pilot, and there were a lot of jokes I had forgotten about. I also forgot how much I hate Hugo.

New Bacon-ings is the simplist recipe in the book and yet it took me three hours to make... mostly because I am slow-as-hell at everything that I do. But it was so worth it.

The fries are what really took the longest. Probably because I used too many potatoes.

I cut up six of them, because six is divisable by three.

I had never tried to cut a potato into a fry... or try to fry a potato. I had never blanched a fry, or covered it in milk, egg, and bacon to cook in the oven.

Even though it was, at it's core, a simple bacon cheeseburger, it was easily the most delicious thing I've cooked. Probably becuase it took 3 hours for me to figure out how to make fries, and take a beautiful picture of them.

I am a simple soul-ed meat-itarian. I don't like vegtables touching my plate. It was, however, a great experience to bite into a juicy tomato and burp raw red onion the rest of the night. It's been two days... and my hands still smell like onions. It's nice.

I was going to take an artsy shot of the burger as it was being consumed. But I was so hungry the whole thing was gone in about 5 minutes... so maybe in the future you can see my teeth marks, after I bite into a burger and make you jealous.

I am not entirely sure where this blog will take me, or if I will ever want to eat a burger after this year. I am not sure how much I will babble about my own life, or how much I will take the time to describe all the best moments from each episode. But for now I will let it be formed like the perfect patty. Handled gently, lovingly, with 20% fat and a pinch (handful) of salt.

To a new year: full of burgers, Belchers, and new bacon-ings!