BACON!

Oh how I love bacon. But don't you just hate standing over the frying pan with hot bacon grease splattering.

A super easy way to avoid this is to bake your bacon in the oven. Preheat your oven to 400 degrees. Lay your bacon on a baking tray, remember that it will shrink, so you can squish them on. Depending on how you like your bacon, it will take anywhere from 10 to 20 minutes. Cook until done to your liking. Remove from tray, tongs are great for this, and enjoy. I usually bake up a whole package at a time and then store the rest in the fridge, reheating as I need it.

You could also line your tray with foil which makes for easy clean up.

Deconstruction Of A Bell Pepper

Or, how to cut a bell pepper.




Start by cutting the top and bottom of the pepper off. This creates a flat surface on the bottom and allows you to see through to the inside.


Make your first cut into the pepper to the right of the pith (the bitter white part).


Your next cut will be right before the next line of pith.

You now have one section of pepper, and a peek at the inside.

Next, you will be cutting behind the pith.

And then once again in front of the pith.

Continue cutting around until you have a skeleton of a pepper.

Notice, there are no seeds on the pepper or the cutting board that need to be wiped away. You also have lovely pieces of pepper that can easily be cut any which way you desire.