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MMMmm Bacon
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I just got a pound of bacon from my brother and a nice pack of scraps... he's really gotten into smoking lately and made his own smokers. For some reason he thought it was a great idea to by 2 beautiful pork butts and make 10 pounds of bacon. I'm not arguing, but what the hell is he going to do with that much bacon. I guess I'm a beneficiary! He got some very good curing salt and is experimenting with different flavors, i think I got the maple brown sugar one? I'm as excited about the bacon scraps cause I think I'll make some ham and bean soup with them.
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Damn, that sounds good, nothing like bacon.
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Yeah, I cant' decide what I want to do with the bacon, I like to do a bacon and onion pizza or something like that, and obviously a BLT is a good choice, or just straight, but I'm thinking it's so thick cut and delicious looking there has got to be something good I'm forgetting. And I don't need pictures of all those crazy bacon concoctions of things like a Giordano pizza wrapped in bacon, or a giant burger stuffed with cheese and wrapped in bacon.
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Before you fry anything, heat up some bacon scraps in the pan to get the grease in there.
It will make everything you make taste better. Spaghetti sauce, steaks, meatloaf.... hell even veggies.
It will make everything you make taste better. Spaghetti sauce, steaks, meatloaf.... hell even veggies.
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Ma used to make turnips but with the bacon fat. Damn that stuff was good. Eating was so much better before Cholesterol was invented
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That's a good idea, I hadn't thought of it, I had just planed to use it all in the soup though, this probably makes more sense since it is mostly fat. How do you store it? Just in a can or something?
I believe the pharmaceutical companies invented cholesterol in order to sell medication for it.Ma used to make turnips but with the bacon fat. Damn that stuff was good. Eating was so much better before Cholesterol was invented
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You can store it in a can in the fridge, but if he gave you a bunch of scraps you could just freeze those and saute a few pieces each time before you cook.
Then you can either just cook you the small pieces or munch on them while your food cooks in the left-over grease.
Mmmmm, bacon nibblers.
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Ma always had a mason jar full of bacon grease sitting in the fridge. Fry the bacon, pour the leftover grease into the jar, Bingo!
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Yeah, we always had a can next to the stove, but I don't remember ever using it for cooking, it just kind of collected and got thrown out. But that wasn't just bacon that was all sorts of meat great. Basically I was told that it's took hot to through out and you can't put it in the drain because it builds up. I have always rented though so I don't give a shit and run it with hot water down the drain.
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You could always send me some bacon.
Garbage potatoes. Take some Yukon Gold and other small taters and quarter them. You know, make em smaller , but not tiny. Bite size plus. Make a pouch out of tinfoil, and throw in the potatoes. Throw some salt n pepper, onions, and those little bacon scraps in there. Close up the pouch and grill em. The bacon cooks in there and gets its tasty flavor on everything.
Garbage potatoes. Take some Yukon Gold and other small taters and quarter them. You know, make em smaller , but not tiny. Bite size plus. Make a pouch out of tinfoil, and throw in the potatoes. Throw some salt n pepper, onions, and those little bacon scraps in there. Close up the pouch and grill em. The bacon cooks in there and gets its tasty flavor on everything.
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Bacon grease in spaghetti sauce?!
I make the best spaghetti ever. Home made sauce. boil the noodles (salt and olive oil in there) . then strain the noodles, olive oil in a pan, pan fry the noodles for a bit, poor sauce in pan(not alot of sauce), simmer till it starts to get a bit dry. Fucking orgasm in your mouth, **** bacon grease.
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ever make home made potato chips? I never could get it right, my mom makes them amazing get a grater and really thinly slice a bunch of potatos and fry them. Friggin amazing, but mine always suck, I dont get the secret, ****, maybe she uses bacon grease.
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Although I guess all bacon lovers should love potato sausage. That shit, for my family, is going to die with my mom because its too much fucking work, she all prides in the slovak recipe passed down for generations, but then those broads hit a stint of only male offspring who have no interest in the work that goes into making it. I'll pass on peeling 8 billion potatoes, frying 8 billion pounds o bacon, grinding it into a mush and packing it into a pigs intestines.
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I wish you to make me some pasta and sauce. i like Farfalle(bow tie), but I will do spaghetti.
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Not allowed a grill at my current place, but this sounds like a good idea for tailgating.
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Not really in the sauce, just to be used to brown the ground beef for meatsauce. Adds some extra flavor to it.
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We need to get everyone together for a big IHN Pot Luck, combine it with a BHP road watch or something.