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OmManiPadmeOmelet
 
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Default Bacon grease for Fish! (was How to use cast iron?)

In article
>,
Elaine Parrish > wrote:

> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005, OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
>
> > In article om>,
> > "Sheldon" > wrote:
> >
> > > wrote:
> > > > We generate enough bacon grease that I can even use it to fry fish.
> > >
> > > Fresh fish fried in bacon grease has got to be as taste in ass
> > > disgusting as it gets.
> > >

> >
> > I don't agree...
> >
> > When we used to go camping in Colorado, the first thing mom did when she
> > got up in the morning was to toss a baited line in the river for trout,
> > then get breakfast started starting with BACON in the Cast iron skillet
> > over the campfire. :-)

>
> Om
> <great memories snipped>
>
> I agree, Om. Bacon grease - bacon drippins, as we like to call them - AKA
> unpurified lard is great for pan frying fish. My maternal grandfather
> loved pan fried, fresh water fish cooked in bacon drippins so we had it a
> lot when I was there.
>
> Elaine, too
>


Funny isn't it how Bacon seems to figure in to a lot of special
breakfast memories? :-)
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson