In article <cmJsf.80$JT.38@fed1read06>,
PastaLover > wrote:

> OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
> > 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? :-)
>
> There used to be a time when EVERYTHING was cooked in bacon drippings.
>
> Travel Channel just had an episode of Taste of America where the host
> went to Michigan or Wisconsin and they served up Trout Hemingway;
> rainbow trout, cleaned, corn meal breading, fried in bacon fat, and
> served with a stripe of bacon in the cavity of the fish. Attributed to
> writer Ernest Hemingway.
>
> Damn, makes me hungry just thinking about it....

Sounds wonderful!

This whole thread has me seriously considering picking up some trout
from Austin next weekend or so.....
--
Om.

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