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Recently, I became fond of my nifty convection oven, and the result of that is that I baked a few meat pies. Today, however, I decided to bake the King of Meat Pie - BACON PIE!

Warning: make sure no females witness the creation of this pie as they might just confiscate all the bacon!

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  My bacon

  BACON! - I've used a whole 1 kilogram of sliced bacon; however, while preparing it to go into the pie a lot of fat is burned away and thrown out - don't panic :)
• 1 package of pizza dough - just get some from the store for less than two bucks. Yes, you can make some yourself, and if you do, make sure to use the bacon fat in it!
• 3 eggs
• About a cup of frozen vegetables - this is so you don't die from heart attack right away.
• 2 table spoons of sour cream
• 2 handfuls of grated cheese - I find Mozarella to be the best for this sort of thing
• Salt to taste

First, we'll prepare our bacon. I totally forget what this method of cooking is called, but the idea is that the bacon is on a plate with holes and melted fat drips through them into a pan - see the pic. Simply cook the bacon until most of the fat melts; you can have a not-completely-cooked batch so it would melt inside the pie. Make sure to save some of that melted fat for our veggies.

Put your veggies along with some bacon fat into a frying pan and fry the veggies. Try to fry them long enough so they would smell more like bacon and not like veggies; this will happen when enough water evaporates; but don't burn them either.

Once veggies are ready, break the eggs into them and add salt. Stir vigorously for the eggs to break up into tiny pieces.

I find that Pam oil spray works just fine when oiling the pan for our pie, but use whatever you like. Spread the dough all over the pan and spread our sour cream on top of the dough - leave edges dry.

Lay a single layer of bacon to cover the entire piece of dough, leaving a bit for the edges of the pie. Next will go our veggies-eggs mix, spread it all over the bacon. Lay another full layer of bacon on top of the pie and "close" the edges - see photos.

Lastly, spread some cheese on top of the pie and it's now ready to be cooked. Keep in mind that all of our ingredients are already cooked, thus we don't need to cook the pie too long. I kept it for about 15 minutes on 395°C in my convection oven.

Here's my bacolicious dinner for tonight:

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