Last weekend, on a visit to San Francisco, I witnessed cookbook author and food writer Michael Ruhlman show a roomful of bloggers at the California Culinary Academy how to cure bacon. Yup, at home.

Cooking with kids has never been easier with this homemade bacon-cheddar pretzel bites with easy cheese sauce. ✅Ingredients pretzel DOUGH: • 4 slices bacon • 2 tablespoons bacon drippings • 1 1/4 cups ...