Papa Weavers Pork Bacon – yum yum goodness
Not only do I plan on posting about restaurants and beer in the DC area, but also about some of the good food you can get from some local grocery stores. It’s about the food dammit! Cook it yourself if you have too, read a cooking blog, taste and enjoy!
Ok, enough drama. I recently found myself wanting a nice Sunday breakfast. I’m talking the kind that is full of unhealthy things that will keep you full for the entire day. Those really massive breakfasts where every portion is too much and all of it equals stretchy pants for the day.
My shock and awe moment came when I realized I had used all the bacon up the previous week, I’ll post what we made with it later. I was suddenly in breakfast despair. My wife insisted I cook anyway and claimed “you can have breakfast without bacon”. Ha! I scoffed such a notion. Breakfast without bacon is like sex with out a partner. Well sorta.
One thing my Wife did insist on was not having a generic brand of typical off the shelf bacon. I agreed on that point. We have been getting our meats from Whole Food and have gone down the organic, no antibiotics route for some time so this really wasn’t a big request. The main issue was, where the hell do you get some good bacon at 9am on a Sunday?
Timor Bodega, that’s where. This is a nice little grocery store in the Bloomingdale area of DC. And boy do they sell some bacon.
Sorry for the fuzzy picture. That’s Papa Weaver’s Pork. I ran over to Timor on Sunday morning and picked this pound of bacon up. It’s frozen but not so bad that you can’t cook it right away. And it’s thick slices, at least a quarter inch for each one. Yum.
The only thing about this bacon is that it’s very salty. My wife couldn’t finish her last piece, I did of course, but the quality of the meat was top notch.
I’ve heard of a method to soak the bacon in milk or something and then cook it up. I still have most of it left and will give that a shot. Bottom line, if you are in a crunch for some good bacon, give this a try. It’s really good just be prepared for the saltiness.
And the bacon in all it’s bacony glory.
Timor Bodega is located at 200 Rhode Island Ave NW (between N 2nd St & N 3rd St) Washington, DC 20001
(202) 588-5612
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