Bacon!

Ah ... one of life's better joys.  I mean ... it's BACON!  It makes practically everything taste better.

After some experimentation, I found the best way to cook bacon is to bake it.

I know pan frying is the classic way, but it always curls up weird so that you get some areas that's all crispy goodness and other areas that's kind of gross, fatty and soft.

Baking on the other hand heats the entire thing up evenly, but it means a lot of drippings to clean up, or the bacon will be sitting in a large puddle of grease.

So, this is the easiest, cleanest way I'd found to cook MY bacon.  Two pieces of foil, one laying and wrapping an oven pan, the other one slightly crumbled up and laid on the lined pan.  Place slices of bacon on top of the crumbled foil and bake away.  The drippings will just collect on the lined pan, leaving me some slices of crispy yummy bacon.

Fun with Dishwasher

Found a recipe for cooking "fool proof" fish (Salmon) in your dishwasher.  Sounds VERY interesting.  Didn't get a chance to try it out, but given that it may make my dishwasher all fishy ... I may just pass on that.

Normally, my salmon cooking's simple enough and involves the following:

1 slice of salmon (about 2-3 finger's width, depending on how hungry I get).
Lemon
Butter or olive oil
Salt & pepper
Dill

Place salmon (no skin and trim off the darker fleshy stuff  next to the skin) on a piece of foil
Put on salt & pepper to taste
Sprinkle some dill over that
A few lemon slices arrange to cover the fish
Drizzle olive oil over the whole thing
Fold foil over and seal well

Bake in oven (toaster oven works well) at about 350 degrees or so until you smell food.  Sorry, I'm a bit hazy with my cooking, but it probably takes about 15-20 minutes or so if you start with a cold oven.

Presentation is nice, cleaning is a snap.  Good lazy-gal dinner.