Since Wednesday or so, I've been fighting this ugly headache. It hit bad Thursday night and has been nagging ever since. I'm hoping that it'll subside before this week gets very far, but given the last couple of days I'm not so sure. If anyone is wondering why I haven't been around to do much of anything, that's why.

For a while now, I've had this itch to coat some bacon in brown sugar and fry it. I finally got around to doing it tonight, and it's one of the most amazing things I've had in a while.

The process was pretty simple:

• Cut a pack of bacon in half length-wise
• Throw 4 of the half-strips in a gallon Ziplock bag with about 1/4 cup of sugar
• Close the Ziplock, making sure to leave some air
• Toss for about 5 minutes, making sure each strip gets a "healthy" coating
• Throw the coated strips in a frying pan on medium heat, adding about 1/4 cup of water
• Cook uncovered, making sure to flip the bacon every once in a while
• When the bacon has curled to a normal "cooked" shape, pull it out of the pan and set it on a paper plate or cooling rack to, well, cool!

How you use the candied bacon is up to you. I personally just ate it straight off the plate. Be careful with this though; it's really easy to eat too much of it, which can really give your cholesterol a kick.