From OUR bacon. Paul picked up the cured / smoked ham and bacon this past Sunday and after weighing in the remaining porky goodness, I opened up a package of bacon, fried it up and we were finally eating crispy, delicious, wonderful, beautiful BACON!
And after we consumed
We also received more pork fat from the other family that didn't want theirs (The fools! Bwahahaha!!). Another welcome addition to the Krazo Acres larder (pun most definitely intended). It will be rendered into lard. Which I will use, along with the coveted bacon grease, to cook with, bake with, and make my favorite green bean recipe.
I used to store vegetable oil as the primary "fat" in our pantry. Then we started getting hogs for the freezer and I learned to render the pork fat into lard so I've been letting the vegetable oil stock dwindle. I'll still buy olive oil, and maybe a container or two of vegetable oil, but from now on our main focus will be on lard.
I grew up with bacon grease being used in all sorts of cooking. And I can never remember a time when there wasn't a bacon jar in the fridge. I absolutely love using bacon grease for gravy. And green beans, can't forget those. I've never rendered lard but maybe one day I will. You have me thinking that maybe I could talk to our one neighbor and see if they'd be up to splitting a pig.
ReplyDeleteThat pan of bacon frying has me drooling.
Everything tastes better cooked in bacon grease...I, too, am a lard enthusiast - from the size of my butt to flaky pastry - you can't have too much lard... :)
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ReplyDeleteBACON>>>>>>>>BACON>>>>>>>BACON!!!!!!
Oh that looks so good, and I'm coming to take your jar :-)
Great grease/fat for everything.
green beans in bacon grease....yummy!!! Also great for roasting cabbage!
ReplyDeleteThat bacon grease would be great in my potato/green bean/bacon dish.
ReplyDeleteIsn't there something so magnificently powerful about preparing and eating food that you've raised? I've only done poultry (chicken, duck and goose), but am a convert. I've never raised a pig -- maybe it's time!
ReplyDeleteyou have no idea how much i'm enjoying all of this.... :-D
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