Vegetarian Bacon Recipes
Apparently bacon is big right now, as far as food trends go. I have no idea why, as eating fried globs of white fat is certainly unappealing to me, but apparently people love the stuff, so much so that bacon salt, bacon mayonnaise and even bacon cookies (seriously???) are the new hip foods. Food trend blog This Is Why You're Fat documents things done with and to bacon that nature never intended. If you happen to salivate at the idea of bacon-flavored everything, please, spare the pig and your cholesterol and try some vegetarian bacon strips! Check out the refrigerator or freezer section of your local health food store, and if you're vegan, be sure to read the labels, as some brands contain eggs. Wondering what you can do with vegetarian bacon? Here are some vegetarian mock-bacon recipes to try:
Hot German Potato Salad with Vegetarian Bacon German potato salad can be served hot or cold. A reviewer gave this recipe five stars and called it "yummy" with "a good mix of textures". 
Vegetarian "Bacon and Eggs" A tofu scramble recipe that is a vegetarian version of a classic American "bacon and eggs" breakfast.
Twice-Baked Potatoes with Vegetarian Bacon (pictured left) Make vegetarian stuffed potatoes using a vegetarian "bacon" mock meat substitute and a cheesey stuffing.
Vegetarian Pasta with Mock Chicken and Bacon You've got double the mock meat in this pasta entree with vegetarian chicken strips as well as crisp vegetarian bacon.
Cheesey Vegetarian Stuffed Potato Skins Make some cheesey vegetarian potato skins with vegetarian bacon bits! A satisfyingly greasy vegetarian munchie.
Comments
Even better than that soy-based bacon is shitake bacon!!!!
Just very thinly slice shitake mushrooms, cover them in a lot of oil and salt, lay them flat on a baking sheet and bake until crispy!!!!
Please give us a recipe for making our own vegetarian bacon. I can’t afford to buy the processed stuff and I don’t like to eat processed food, anyway.
McCormick brand (spice manufacturer) makes a salt called Bacon Salt.
OOPS! The brand is not McCormick it’s J&D’s-Sorry!
I know we all love bacon, but this article that takes a look into the bacon industry really caught my attention.
-Jessica, NYC
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Bacon as a Weapon of Mass Destruction
By Arun Gupta, The Indypendent
Among my fondest childhood memories is savoring a strip of perfectly cooked bacon that had just been dragged through a puddle of maple syrup. It was an illicit pleasure; varnishing the fatty, salty, smoky bacon with sweet arboreal sap felt taboo. How could such simple ingredients produce such riotous flavors?
That was then. Today, you don’t need to tax yourself applying syrup to bacon — McDonald’s does it all for you with the McGriddle. It conveniently takes the filling for an Egg McMuffin, an egg, American cheese and pork product, and nestles it in a pancake-like biscuit suffused with genuine fake-maple syrup flavor.
The McGriddle is just one moment in an era of extreme food combinations — a moment in which bacon plays a starring role from high cuisine to low. There’s bacon ice cream; bacon-infused vodka; deep-fried bacon; chocolate-dipped bacon; bacon-wrapped hot dogs filled with cheese (which are fried and then battered and fried again) … bacon mints; “baconnaise,” which Jon Stewart described as “for people who want to get heart disease but [are] too lazy to actually make bacon”; Wendy’s “Baconnator,” six strips of bacon mounded atop a half-pound cheeseburger, which sold 25 million in its first eight weeks; and the outlandish bacon explosion, a barbecued meat brick composed of two pounds of bacon wrapped around two pounds of sausage.
It’s easy to dismiss this gonzo gastronomy as typical American excess best followed with a Lipitor chaser. Behind the proliferation of bacon offerings, however, is a confluence of government policy, factory farming, the boom in fast food and manipulation of consumer taste that has turned bacon into a weapon of mass destruction.
To read the entire article exposing how the pork and food processing industry have teamed up to spoil our environment and ruin our health by becoming the “manipulator of the consumers’ minds and desires,” visit http://www.indypendent.org/2009/07/23/bacon-as-weapon
Well, if that doesn’t cure you of eating bacon or fast food nothing will. It’s distressingly obvious that we are blindly marching on to our own destruction with these horrible eating habits. I can’t say I’ll never eat fast food again but it’s less and less of a treat to go out.