Bacon is my favorite breakfast meat, but it doesn’t have to be reserved for just the most important meal of the day. You can have bacon with any meal, and here is a collection of all of the recipes on this site featuring bacon, as well as some of my favorites from around the web!
Recipes featuring Bacon!
Bacon is a magical meat, and we love it around here. Below you will find an exhaustive list of recipes on my site and from across the web that features BACON!
Recipes from Or Whatever You Do!
Traeger Grilled No-Flip Bacon is one of the easiest bacon recipes ever, and also one that produces my favorite kind of bacon. Crisp, but still chewy. You can cook it to whatever texture you want though, and this method still works!
Blackstone Stuffed Hash Browns are cooked until crisp on a gas griddle, stuffed with sausage and cheese, and topped with bacon, cheese, and a fried egg.
These Smoked Loaded Baked Potatoes are cooked right on your pellet grill, and make the best bakers! Fill them with all of the toppings you love, and then find a few new ones too.
Breakfast Sausage topped with crispy hashbrowns and cheese before being rolled up, wrapped in a bacon weave, and then smoked on the pellet grill until everything is cooked and the bacon is crisp.
Homemade bleu cheese dressing full of crispy Kurobuta bacon! This is simple to whip up and keep in the fridge and so much better than the bottled variety!
This Blackstone burger is made with ground American Wagyu Beef, Kurobuta bacon, and crumbled melty blue cheese. All that gets sandwiches between two toasted brioche buns for what could easily be the blue cheese lover's perfect burger.
This burger is made with ground American Wagyu Beef, Kurobuta bacon, and sharp melted cheddar cheese. Extra bacon please, hold the vegetables!
We took big russet potatoes and turned them into delicious smoked loaded potato skins! Salt-rubbed and cooked right in our pellet grill before getting loaded with all of the cheese and bacon one potato can handle.
If you need a delicious side dish to go with your next meal, try this easy griddle elote that's conveniently off the cob! We used frozen corn here, but you could also use fresh corn and slice the kernels off yourself.
These easy flat top grilled smash burgers will be the hit of your dinner rotation. Skip the drive-thru and make restaurant-quality burgers right at home. The bacon-wrapped onions are not optional here! (Okay, they ARE, but don't skip them!)
This simple potato salad takes smoked baby potatoes and combines them with hard-boiled eggs (smoke 'em, if you've got 'em) and a tangy potato salad sauce featuring mayo, mustard, seasonings, and apple cider vinegar.
Homemade cheese sauce gets combined with sour cream, ranch, bacon, and all of the freshly shredded hashbrowns to make a hashbrowns casserole for all occasions.
Bacon-wrapped sausage rounds get stuffed with smoked roasted garlic cream cheese mixed with sharp cheddar. Then it gets smoked and drizzled with a tangy vinegar-based barbecue sauce.
Sweet and tangy and smokey and perfect for dipping! This super easy pellet grill appetizer is perfect for Halloween, or anytime you need a snack.
Homemade Smoked Baked Beans are a tangy, delicious side dish for any table! You're going to want to make extras because people are going to want to take home these leftovers!
Easy Bacon and Egg Breakfast Wraps are one of my favorite breakfasts, and easy to make ahead and freeze for a quick meal for kids!
Tender center-cut pork chops are wrapped with bacon and rosemary are grilled on the pellet grill at 325° until the internal temperature is 145° and the bacon is crisp.
Delicious bacon-wrapped brats are a perfect main dish for any barbecue. Take brats to the next level, in this double-pork mashup.
Simple bacon wrapped scallops are grilled on the Traeger pellet grill until they are crisp, tender, and delicious.
Delicious and SIMPLE bacon ranch dip uses packaged ranch dip, thick-cut bacon, and magic. Or something. Because it is amazing.
This bacon cheddar omelet is cooked on our Blackstone Griddle and is one of my favorite breakfasts. The Blackstone Griddle will bring a taste of Country Kitchen right to your home. You can definitely just cook this Cheesy cheddar bacon omelet on the stove if you don't have one of these handy portable griddles, just use a non-stick pan.
These Traeger Bacon Sausage Bites are a perfect appetizer for your next gathering! Salty, smoky, and sweet – these hit alllll the right notes.
This delicious quiche is full of savory bacon, cheddar cheese, and rutabaga crust.
Nothing beats a homemade, fresh breakfast sandwich! Make this one amazing with some spinach and farm-fresh eggs.
This bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin is one of those recipes that LOOKS really fancy but is actually a snap to throw together.
This smoked bacon ranch macaroni and cheese has smoked cheese in it, ranch dressing mix, and all of the bacon. Your whole family will love this easy dinner!
This tender Traeger bacon-wrapped shrimp are one of my favorite appetizers for the spring and summer months! Cookouts, potlucks, family gatherings, or just a regularly old day - your family will adore this flavor-packed shrimp appetizer!
This easy egg bake is full of delicious Traeger bacon and asparagus. Use farm fresh eggs for the best results!
Quick, easy, and delicious Beer Cheese Dip with Bacon. Perfect appetizer for any get-together!
Traeger Smoked Spicy Candied Bacon is the easiest crowd-pleaser you are ever going to make. Much easier than pan-fried bacon, on any day of the week, this one is special enough for a Sunday full of company or a housefull of football fans invading your house for a game.
Delicious seared sea scallops with a rich bacon cream sauce is a delicious meal to serve any day of the week.
Crispy grilled Brussels Sprouts are a perfect side for almost any main course! We love these bacon-tossed vegetables, and think you will too!
These loaded smoked mashed potatoes are the perfect side dish for whatever meal you want to cook. Especially great served with steaks!
Tender and delicious collard greens flavored with bacon, shallots, onions, and garlic are simmered in chicken stock and served alongside your favorite barbecue.
Homemade Creamy Pasta Salad is the perfect side to accompany any bbq main you can throw at someone. Super versatile, so throw in any vegetables you have laying around and make it your own!
These are really the ultimate BLT. Thick cut bacon, fresh crisp lettuce, and juicy marinated tomatoes are put between two slices of lightly toasted bread with a thin coating of mayo.
This impressive pork tenderloin is butterflied, stuffed with two different kinds of cheeses and fresh spinach, and then wrapped in a bacon weave and cooked on the Traeger grill.
This crunchy and delicious broccoli salad recipe whips up in a flash, marinates overnight, and is one of my new favorite side dishes for any barbecue or cookout!
These classic jalapeno poppers are smoked on a Traeger wood-pellet grill, and wrapped in bacon to make the traditional popper pop a little more.
Delicious and hearty smoked salmon chowder is full of carrots, potato, celery, thyme, and of course all of the lemon pepper smoked salmon you can possibly take.
Delicious bucatini pasta is cooked al dente and combined with copious amounts of fresh vegeables, bacon, tomatoes, and a bacon dressing that's incredible.
Your favorite skillet at Country Kitchen comes to life right at your own house.
Bacon, ranch, and cheese - oh my! This loaded baked potato salad is going to because your favorite barbecue side dish.
Loaded with flavor, these oven potatoes are a sure-fire party favorite!
Homemade pierogies are a treat that will go down in the family history books. They are amazing. The dough is homemade, the filling it homemade, and there's really not much better than a hot, fresh, homemade pierogie.
This Traeger Cheeseburger Meatloaf is tender, juicy, and a little smokey, and even better the next day. This is the kind of meatloaf recipe that you should double so you can have leftover meatloaf sandwiches the next day. Or just leave it single if you don't have a giant family like mine because this recipe makes two loafs!
Super easy dip that makes your fries taste like a loaded baked potato!
Recipes from some of the best bloggers
This recipe from Chiles and Smoke is going to have every neighbor knocking down your door.
The combination of sweet and salty in these Balsamic Glazed Bacon Wrapped Squash is amazing!
Bacon and caramelized onions come together in a flaky crust to make one amazing dish.
Get out the chips and dippers and bring this hot smoky bacon bean dip to the party! Smoky bits of bacon combined with beans and cheddar cheese make this creamy dip a great appetizer
Not only quick and easy to make smothered cabbage with the addition of bacon is really the ultimate side dish!
This Bacon Ranch Egg Salad is just what the home chef ordered. It’s easy, needing only a few ingredients, tastes divine, can be served multiple ways, & is appropriate for a variety or occasions.
Wrapped in smoky bacon, this Texas-styled grilled quail is easy to make and full of flavor!
Thick-cut bacon is coated with brown sugar and coarse-ground black pepper and bakes until it has a crispy sweet crust. The salty, peppery, and sweet flavor combination is absolutely addictive!
This classic comfort food recipe gets a twist when you cover it in smoky bacon and smother it in tangy barbecue sauce!
This bacon jam recipe is not only savory with a touch of sweetness and a hint of thyme, bourbon and espresso but it is a Paleo bacon jam recipe.
Loaded bacon cheddar crisps are the perfect 5 ingredient baked finger food for your next party! They combine cheddar, bacon, garlic, and green onion into a gluten-free and low carb snack that takes just minutes to make! These are so ridiculously addicting!
This is called Million Dollar Bacon for good reason. Yummy pieces of thick bacon covered in brown sugar, spices, and maple syrup. It’s the perfect mix of sweet, spicy, and salty.
This hot bacon dressing will make any salad sing! The sweet and salty components make it the perfect dressing.
A savory twist on traditional babka. Swirls of yeasty babka dough is filled with savory but sweet bacon jam.
This easy dinner recipe for Smoky-Sweet Bacon-Wrapped Chicken Breast will soon become a family favorite. One bite, and you’ll understand why.
Egg Salad with Bacon & Blue Cheese makes a flavorful filling for sandwiches or lettuce wraps and is a great recipe for using up leftover hard-boiled eggs!
Bacon White Cheddar Pasta is a simple and delicious dish for any night of the week. Hearty enough as a main dish or the perfect side dish for any meal. Loaded with flavor this will be a hit with any mac and cheese lover!
Chewy chocolate chip cookies with crunchy bacon. These are so addictive!
These bacon wrapped pickles (aka pickle fries) are the perfect double-duty, easy appetizer for any gathering… Keto-friendly for your low carb guests, but still tasty enough to appeal to everyone else, AND they’re just 2 ingredients!
This juicy & flavorful Coffee Rubbed Venison Bacon Burger is sure to quickly become your new go-to burger recipe.
Honey mustard chicken thighs is the best chicken thigh recipe to have in your arsenal! It’s kid-friendly, and adults love it, too. Plus, make it freezer-friendly by marinating it before wrapping in bacon.
The whole family will love these Bacon Meatballs! Eat them straight from the pan or put them with your favorite spaghetti and pasta sauce for an easy and flavorful dinner!