bread or pizza dough
crumbled bacon
alfredo sauce
fresh ground black pepper
prepare your dough as directed, then roll it out and cut into 2" x 10" or so strips - maybe a pinch narrower. create an even number of strips. cutting the dough with a pizza cutter works well. brush on alfredo sauce atop each strip. sprinkle every other strip with crumbled bacon. grind pepper over all strips. turn over non-baconed strip onto a baconed strip (alfredo side down). this will make a long, skinny alfredo-bacon-pepper sandwich of sorts. lightly press together, and maybe even pinch the edges together a bit to help it stay together. do this for each pair of dough strips. give 2-3 half twists for each strip. then bake as directed for your dough... or maybe about 400 degrees for 15 minutes or so (convection), at least until dough is golden. remove from oven. brush the twist-strip with alfredo and pepper again in the edge/cracks where you see the bacon inside part.
consume. (he go, eh?)
notes: when brushing the final alfredo, you can also choose to use butter. the alfredo / pepper combo makes the twist taste similar to biscuits and gravy. experiment with maybe... ground beef/pizza sauce/cayenne... bbq sauce/cheddar/pulled pork.
* what's with that name? ...well, instead of something obvious, like "alfredo bacon twists", i happened to be watching an episode of Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe. they were in hawaii making "dirt shirts". the silk screen lady, had a shirt that said "try try em" on the front and "he go, eh?" on the back. "try try em" is a means of encouragement/suggestion to try whatever it is you're doing. "he go, eh?" is a response/confirmation stating that what you just try-tried was a success. (of course if what you tried wasn't good, then "he no go". anyway, as i was making these, watching the show and then eating this new creation, and in the spirit of hawaii/my inventive recipes, i named these twists as such! give this (or any of my recipes) a shot. you might just like them. Try try the Try Try 'Ems!
