Netrippers Football Club began the New Year with good cheer at MacTarnahan’s Taproom in NW Portland Saturday January 9^th with a social/fundraiser for their upcoming season.  Over 60 members of the organization attended the dinner packing the ski longue style dining room to capacity—more than the serving staff was expecting.   Warm greetings and hugs abound as many of the members have not seen each other since the end of the last summer season.  Sign-ups were provided for current and newly interested members to participate in one of four teams to play leagues associated with Portland Parks and Recreation starting in April:  Co-ed indoor, Co-ed outdoor, Men’s 4A, and Women’s.  Also, on the business agenda was voting for one of four potentially new logos for the organization and information about the team ski trip.

Participation in the various leagues in the metro area is not the only field time members can get involved in.  Netrippers also travel to various tournaments in the Pacific Northwest targeted for the GLBT athletes.  They also hold their own annual summer grass tournament.  Being able to have basic equipment and playing fields for the year is a consideration of fundraising each year.  As there is interest to play in double the amount of “seasons” this year so will the cost.  To offset this a raffle was conducted to win various prizes by the end of the night ranging from Timbers gear, gift certificates, to even a gay movie/safe sex package from Taboo video.  Fortunately, a male member of the organization won the movie package to the jeers of the crowd.

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I don’t know why America, or at least the population on Twitter is obsessed with bacon…It’s a phenomenon I wasn’t aware of until I joined Twitter. That said, I have wondered what a bacon cupcake would look like, taste like. After talking to our own Cupcake Diva, Lisa Watson of Cupcake Jones, I wondered how she would accomplish this task – creating a bacon cupcake that Portland really needs.

For a while, I forgot about it. The other day it was brought to my attention by my new copy of FastCompany…with a Vosges Chocolates ad. Yes, a full page ad with a strip of bacon flanking the left side of the page. A chocolate pig was “jumping” over some spices and a little pile of crumbled bacon. Yes folks, they have made a Bacon chocolate bar!

That’s when it happened…could this be a clue to what a bacon cupcake might have in it, or on it? I went to Google and found an interesting mix of results – some bacon cupcake recipes, and then a mix of the really bizarre – Garlic? How about one with Ancho Chiles?

I found Dark Chocolate and Bacon cupcakes, from A Good Appetite. This recipe seems pretty much the winner, and worth a try. The we have maple Bacon cupcakes with Maple Frosting, from Vanilla Garlic. This one looks promising too…and Garrett makes a good point about there being bacon baklava, bacon candy, and bacon ice cream. BACON BAKLAVA!!!! OMG!

After composing myself, I continued…Another Dark Chocolate Bacon Cupcake recipe over at Allrecipes.com – this one is  different with its 1 cup of cold, strong coffee, and 4 more pieces of bacon than the one over at Good Appetite. Then I ran into Iron Cupcake and wow! What a cupcake extravaganza…her recipe is different in dusting with cocoa afterwards, and 12-20 slices! Mmmm…According to her taste-testers, they were a raging success, find the recipe here.

So there you have it folks…it can be done and now we wait. Follow Cupcake Jones here, and put your vote in for a bacon cupcake.

BACON BAKLAVA!!!! OMG!

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