This idea came from NoblePig.com<\/a><\/strong>, but I swapped out the\u00a0jalapenos\u00a0for cheddar cheese and baked them instead of fried:<\/p>\n The Tater Tots were first thawed, then placed in the center of a 4″ strip of bacon, topped with a slice of cheese, wrapped, and pierced with a toothpick. I think the next time (there WILL be a next time) I’ll try a few with jalapeno, but also a few with a different cheese. \u00a0Sharp cheddar was a little too strong and I think they need a cheese which melts better. \u00a0Any suggestions?<\/p>\n I may also have to try frying them like Cathy at NoblePig<\/a><\/strong> did – hers look incredibly crispy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Weekly Photo – Bacon Wrapped Cheddar Tots For about 3 years the subtitle for this blog has been “Photography, Family, & Food”, yet with 70 posts not 1 has actually involved food! \u00a0Well, other then photographing strawberries a while back, but I don’t think that counts. So today we finally start up a new category, with Bacon Wrapped Cheddar Tots. \u00a0These little bacon wrapped wonders were excellent. This idea came from NoblePig.com, but I swapped out the\u00a0jalapenos\u00a0for cheddar cheese and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[52,29],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-food","tag-lenssigma-10-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":766,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Bacon](\"http:\/\/portfolio.richarsenault.com\/Food\/Cooking-Experiments\/i-QZxRwnb\/0\/M\/BaconWrappedCheddarTots-M.jpg\")
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<\/a>I baked them on a tray which had a primary goal of keeping them out of the bacon\u00a0grease, but the holes also worked perfectly to keep them upright by putting the toothpicks through the holes.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.richarsenault.com\/content\/wp-content\/plugins\/thumbnail-for-excerpts\/tfe_no_thumb.png\" "\\"\\"")
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