Time again for more stalking! This month for the Secret Recipe Club, I poked around a blog called Giving Up On Perfect, headed up by the lovely Mary. In perusing Mary’s blog, I found we have a few things in common, like our love of party planning, she had a salsa tasting party, which is just a genius way in my opinion to sit around and eat lots and lots of chips and salsa.
When the tomatoes and tomatillos explode in the garden as I expect them to, I am totally having a salsa tasting party. Mostly so I have more of an excuse to sit around and eat chips and salsa.
And of course, I chose a recipe of Mary’s to make for the Recipe Club. You may recall my little brother’s guest post with his awesome smoked ribs? He did good, let me just say that again. Well, since we were having a barbecue that day with potato salad, baked beans and those delicious ribs, I thought Mary’s Bacon Deviled Eggs would be the perfect starter.
Especially since there isn’t a person in my family who doesn’t like deviled eggs. Myself included! I can eat them by the dozen. My stomach doesn’t like when I do that, but they are just so tasty. Adding some salty, smoky bacon is just a good idea, I am surprised I didn’t think of it before now, I tend to like to put bacon in places where you normally wouldn’t consider it.
The recipe is simple enough, the only hard part is hard boiling eggs. I’ve been there, you swear those eggs should be cooked through and they aren’t hard-boiled. Or you can’t get the darn shell to come away cleanly and you end up with pock-marked eggs that don’t look very nice for deviled eggs.
Mary posts a link with her recipe with a great sounding way to hard boil eggs. I didn’t look at this before I boiled my eggs, or I would have tried the vinegar trick.
The way I learned to do it from my mom is to get your eggs in the pan and just cover them with cold water. Bring the water to a boil and let them boil for 5 minutes, then turn the heat off and cover the pan. Let the eggs hang out in the hot water for about 30 minutes, then transfer them to a bowl of ice water to finish cooling. When I am ready to peel them, I lightly crack all the eggs shells and let them soak in the cold water for just a few minutes. This is supposed to allow the cold water in between the egg and the shell, separating it just enough to make peeling easy.
The deviled eggs were very tasty, but the cheddar cheese flavor was strong enough to drown out the other tastes one is familiar with in deviled eggs, so I don’t think I will make them with the cheddar cheese again. I also made a batch with blue cheese, but used what ended up being too much blue cheese so they were a bit potent, but a better flavor combo we thought compared to the cheddar cheese. I hope to make these again with some homemade bacon, now that there is a smoker in the family at my disposal.
I hope you give the eggs a try and visit Mary’s lovely blog yourself! If you are intersted in joining the Secret Recipe Club yourself (and I highly recommend it, it’s a great group!), just head on over to the information page for details.
Bacon Deviled Eggs
From Mary at Giving up on Perfect
10 eggs
1 cup mayo
1 Tbsp. dijon mustard
2 Tbsp. apple cider vinegar
8 slices bacon, fried crispy and crumbled into tiny pieces
1 cup cheddar cheese, finely shredded or 4 ounces crumbled blue cheese ( I used 8 ounces when I made my blue cheese version which was truly too much of a good thing.)
Salt, pepper and Tabasco sauce to taste
Paprika for topping
Hard boil the eggs and cool completely. Once cooled, peel them, then slice in half, placing the yolks into a small bowl. Plate the egg whites on a serving platter. Mash the yolks as finely as you can.
In the bowl with the yolks, combine the mayo, mustard, vineger, bacon, cheese, salt, pepper and Tabasco sauce. Mix well and transfer to a small ziploc bag with a corner of the bag snipped off or a piping bag. Fill each egg white half with the yolk filling. Sprinkle with paprika and serve.
I love deviled eggs. Adding bacon sounds delicious!
Me too, the bacon was an amazing addition! I hope you give it a try!
I’ve been needing a new deviled egg recipe and this one with bacon is right up my alley. Can’t wait to give it a try.
I’d love for you to check out my SRC recipe this month: Holy Guacamole.
Lisa~~
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I think we had the bacon covered this month, you and I! Thanks for stopping by!
These look fantastic! I might make these for a potluck this weekend! Thanks!
You are welcome, thank you for stopping by!
OOO I’ve never even thought of putting bacon in deviled eggs. awesome! Found this from the The Secret Recipe Club blog hop
I know, right? I don’t know why I never thought of it before. Thanks for stopping by!
I hate boiling eggs too! My last batch of deviled eggs were so hard to peel that most of them ended up in the “too ugly to serve to guests” pile – which made my husband happy of course!
These eggs look seriously delicious. I’ve never thought to use blue cheese in them but I’m trying it next time.
I have had large piles of the “too ugly to serve guests” eggs myself. My husband is always happy to help eat those too!
I will admit to cheating when I made the blue cheese version, I bought hard boiled pre-peeled eggs from Costco!
Bacon in deviled eggs sounds delicious! I will try the vinegar tip next time I make them. Just maybe each and every egg will be perfect!
I am going to try the vinegar trick next time too. Maybe between that and what I already do, I will end up with easy to peel, perfect eggs. Thanks for stopping by!
Good morning!! Thank you for making one of my recipes! Your photos are gorgeous, and I love hearing your feedback. Have fun hopping around all the blogs today!
Thank you for coming by to see me! I had a lot of fun going through your blog, which sounds kind of creepy, trying to decide what to make. The deviled eggs just kept calling me back though!
We love deviled eggs too! I like the sound of some blue cease added too. Yum!
I can easily say we are a family addicted to deviled eggs. I’ve made them at almost every family gathering the last few months. Thanks for stopping by!
I adore Mary’s blog! Love that you chose this recipe and thanks for your honest thoughts! I think that’s one of the neatest parts about this
Someone else’s perspective.
I totally agree! I’ve been loving the SRC over the last couple of months, I’ve been getting so many great ideas, recipes and perspectives. Thank you for coming by!
Deviled eggs and bacon…I’m in heaven!
They pretty much were that, heavenly!
If I made these, my DH would think he’d died and gone to heaven – bacon and deviled eggs being two of his very favorite things!
Mine too, he and the rest of the family ate them so quickly! I had to hold them back just to get a picture of the final product. Thanks for stopping by!
These look ridiculously delicious! I added ham once to some deviled eggs and we loved them – I don’t know why I’ve never tried bacon – I’m going to have to remedy that soon!
I don’t know why I never tried bacon before now either, it was so good! Hope you get to try them soon!
I never thought of adding bacon, or cheese for that matter, to deviled eggs. What a great new spin on a family favorite.
It was unexpected and really good! Hope you give it a try yourself soon!
Sounds like a great take on deviled eggs! I’ve never heard of putting any sort of cheese in there with the mix, so I’m interested in seeing how these taste!
They were good, we were rather fond of them with blue cheese over the cheddar, just watch the quantity, you don’t want too much of a good thing!
Such a unique idea for deviled eggs!
So fun to be in the Secret Recipe Club with you. This looks amazing
I agree, I am loving being a part of the club! I get so many good ideas from the blog hop. Thank you for coming by!
The eggs look great! I imagine the bleu cheese would give it a nice kick, but you’re right about not wanting it to overpower the other flavours. I’d almost want to try a drop of bleu cheese with some Frank’s hot sauce for buffalo deviled eggs. Or maybe that’s just too crazy?
I don’t’ think it is too crazy at all! I always use a little hot sauce for seasoning in my deviled eggs, if you just increase the amount and add the blue cheese, I bet they would be delicious!
Looks delicious!! I’m going to try out your tips for cooking and peeling the eggs. I hadn’t heard of that method before
I am always on the look out for ways to make my life and peeling hard boiled eggs easier, hope the tips help you too!
These look great and they bring back so many memories for me. When I was younger, whenever we had visitors coming around, my little brother would make these type of eggs. They were his one and only dish!
That’s an awesome memory to have! My grandmother was the same way, she did a few things, and only a few, well in the kitchen. But they were always good!
Hi the eggs look very nice, nice pics love deviled eggs andi
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Oh, my hubby would love these! I never make him deviled eggs, which he loves…so I need to treat him with a batch. He adores bacon, so I know these would be a hit! Great pick for the SRC!
I LOVE SRC, don’t you? I am enjoying my first month and having so much fun getting to know tons of new bloggers!
Oh, joy! What a wonderful way to have your bacon and eggs. I hope to try this, and I’ll put smoked paprika over the top.
I completely agree on using smoked paprika, it adds such a depth of flavor.
I wanted to let you know Veronica that I’ve been trying to visit your page today and my virus software is picking something up, so I can’t view it at all, I am worried you may have been hacked at some point, Wanted to let you know, hope all is well!
Weird! I’m not having any trouble at all.
Mmmm bacon and eggs, my two favorite combo’s in life, I would love to follow you but I can’t find a button
Are you on Facebook? I keep my blog updates there. I haven’t gone about setting up an RSS feed yet, although I may if readership seems to be increasing, which it may be!
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I love this secret recipe club concept! Such fun! Great rendition of devilled eggs btw!
It really is a fun little club! And it gives me a chance to find new blogs and recipes to try out, which is never a bad thing.
mmm bacon makes all things better in my opinion
Stopping by from SRC. Great post!
This looks fabulous. Nice work on the Secret Recipe Club. Isn’t it fun. I love finding new blogs and reading through them.
I think that has been my favorite part, finding all these great blogs to read and get ideas from even outside the club reveal date.
Everything goes great with bacon. I love deviled eggs too. That is my kind of comfort meal.
My family LOVES deviled eggs, but with bacon? I will never be able to make enough! WOW! Great job, beautiful pics and love your blog!
Those are on the next party list. Two of my favorite ingredients!!
My family consists of bacon addicts… how could I have never thought to include bacon in my deviled eggs? Must give this a try soon!
Wow. I am bacon obsessed, and conveniently have some eggs that need using – this will definitely be a recipe to try in the near future! Thank you for the tips on hard boiling eggs, I find it to be a little tricky sometimes!
This is just one more example showing that bacon does make everything better.
Never have I ever thought to put cheese or bacon in deviled eggs. And I’ve made a lot of ‘em!
Here’s another trick for boiling which always works for me: Don’t put the eggs in the water til it’s already at a rolling boil. Carefully lower one by one and then leave in there for 10 minutes. Once finished boiling, immediately into ice water. I’ve never, ever had any peeling issues since I started doing it that way!
I may have to give that a try for boiling the eggs, thanks!
Oh I’m with you! I am a complete freak when it comes to deviled eggs, LOVE them! These sound great, and I love the idea of the salsa tasting party too!
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I served these as part of my birthday brinner and loved them! Many of my family don’t like devilled eggs, even with bacon (I know, right?!), so I’m eating the leftovers for breakfast, quite happily. Thanks for sharing this!
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