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I'm interested in this as well, DH bought a LOT of bacon for the BLTs and I was left with a lot of grease that smelled AWESOME...

uuuuuh for eggs!!!!
I bet that it would work heavenly for eggs!!!

I save my bacon grease and find that is adds great flavor to just about anything you fry I am sure it is horrendously bad for you but whatever!

I use bacon grease instead of margarine when I make dog cookies.

When I was a young, my mother kept a crock on the counter and used bacon grease to fry eggs and potatoes. That must have been before cholesterol was "discovered".

Sometimes when I bake cauliflower, instead of olive oil and lemon juice, I drizzle it with it with bacon grease and lemon juice.

This is what I often do with cauliflower, but some times I dice a few strips of bacon and cook it a few minutes and put the bacon grease and bacon in instead of lemon juice.  One Perfect Bite has some very good recipes.  The picture shows something green that is not listed in the recipe - maybe parsley?

Oven Roasted Cauliflower...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite inspired by Emeril LaGasse

Ingredients:
1 medium head cauliflower (about 2-1/4 pounds), trimmed and cut into florets
3 large cloves garlic, thinly sliced
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese

Directions:
Heat oven to 450 degrees F. Combine cauliflower and garlic in a large bowl. Drizzle with olive oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper. Transfer, in a single layer, to a large rimmed baking sheet. Roast at 450 degrees F for about 25 minutes, stirring once. Sprinkle with cheese. Serve immediately Yield: 6 servings.

Oh for god's sake - go somewhere else to lecture grown adults on what they eat. She never said her dad ate cauliflower in the first place. If adding some flavor to it means he does eat vegetables instead of something less healthy, more power to her.

Refired Beans.. My great aunt (who BTW lived to be 102) would refire pinto beans in bacon grease. SO YUMMY

Evil Stepmother wrote:

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When I was a young, my mother kept a crock on the counter and used bacon grease to fry eggs and potatoes. That must have been before cholesterol was "discovered".

Sometimes when I bake cauliflower, instead of olive oil and lemon juice, I drizzle it with it with bacon grease and lemon juice.

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 I still have a crock on the stove. :)

My mom makes an amazing fried cabbage in bacon grease...YUM!

As has already been mentioned... pretty much ANYTHING fried will taste good fried in BACON!!!! grease.

 

ETA: I'm partial to eggs ("over medium", please), and "home fries"... MMMMMmmmmmmmm

-- Edited by RichardInTN on Thursday 23rd of May 2013 11:29:01 PM

Here's a cabbage recipe my family loves:
http://kitchen-parade-veggieventure.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-side-browned-cabbage-with.html

I drizzle it when I roast vegetables or chicken, add a tiny bit to the pan when I make hamburgers, drizzle it over meatloaf..... anything really. It was what was commonly used before the days of commonly available butter and crisco, and calorie counting.

Man was I mad when my MIL threw away my fat jar. I was at work, she was visiting DH and decided to "help". I don't know what the heck she was doing, but poor DH got an earful when I discovered my missing fat. I never thought I'd be so irritated at having lost fat.

OpheliaDev1 wrote:

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We eat a LOT of bacon. Several pounds a week. My dad is diabetic, and he has essentially replaced carbs and sweets with cheese, bacon and sausage. (I know, I know, it is NOT healthy.)

And this is not lean bacon. He loves Wright's Bacon and Burger's Steak Cut bacon. We're throwing away 1/2 to 1 cup of bacon grease a week.

So, anybody have some creative things to do with bacon grease?

I slice brussel sprouts in half longways and toss them in bacon grease and roast them in the oven and that's very good.

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The sky's the limit.

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