Help me use my bacon grease?

[Anonymous]

I love cooking Brussels sprouts in bacon grease and then making a sauce of balsamic, maple syrup, and good mustard.

[Anonymous]

To each their own, but it tastes (and looks) like motor oil to me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NYT uses bacon grease for a bacon fat ginger snap cookie by Julia Moskin. It’s delicious.

Wow! Must check this out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To each their own, but it tastes (and looks) like motor oil to me

You should stop consuming motor oil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Like another PP, I’d make suet balls or cakes - add some barley, oats and or seeds and place in a bird feeder.

I’m a vegetarian, BTW.

This is what I do. Add peanut butter, whatever older nuts and raisins you have left over from the holidays, crushed egg shells, freeze dried meal worms. I also pack in oats, corn meal, fat from browning ground beef. Let it cool and solify, cut into squares, store in fridge. I also add a good dusting of ground red pepper to discourage mammals. Even with the red pepper, sometimes raccoons will take down the suet feeders and haul them away. I put it out starting in January when food is getting scarce and the weather is really cold or snowy. It's fun to watch the birds on snowy days. My cats also enjoy watching them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like another PP, I’d make suet balls or cakes - add some barley, oats and or seeds and place in a bird feeder.

I’m a vegetarian, BTW.

This is what I do. Add peanut butter, whatever older nuts and raisins you have left over from the holidays, crushed egg shells, freeze dried meal worms. I also pack in oats, corn meal, fat from browning ground beef. Let it cool and solify, cut into squares, store in fridge. I also add a good dusting of ground red pepper to discourage mammals. Even with the red pepper, sometimes raccoons will take down the suet feeders and haul them away. I put it out starting in January when food is getting scarce and the weather is really cold or snowy. It's fun to watch the birds on snowy days. My cats also enjoy watching them.

LOL, I don't always put this much effort into feeding my children!

[Anonymous]

I always have a jar of bacon grease in the fridge! And I'm not even from the south.

I use it to fry or scramble eggs, toss a bit with roasted brussel sprouts, roasted potato wedges, make a roux for thickening soups, saute onions and other veggies for soup or a pot of beans, pork fried rice or stir fry, collard greens, skillet cornbread, anything else I would use a drizzle of oil for! A teaspoon at a time, once or twice a week, distributed to the entire family is not going to affect my cholesterol.

[Anonymous]

Make a big pot of beans. Also add a bottle of beer. Yum!