[V K Lee]

Hope you save your bacon grease! We use it for sauteing, pan frying, among other things. Raymond's mother (Everybody Loves Raymond) treasured her jar of pancetta/bacon renderings and when Frank tossed it she went berserk; almost bopping him on the head with a cast iron skillet.
Save Your Bacon Fat

Not a soup but in a pot. Prepare and cook pinto beans. While cooking, add Hillshire Farm Smoked Sausage (casing removed) and sausage cut into bite size pieces. Serve with hot cornbread. Yummy!

[CottonBall]

Oh yeah, I always save bacon grease. But I actually save it for the cat :-) one of my cats is allergic to grains plus has struvite crystals. So I make her own food. I have to add fat to the lean chicken and although the recipe calls for butter she prefers bacon grease. She’s discovered she’s a southern cat after all.

Yummy recipe, I love smoked sausage. It adds a wonderful flavor to anything it is in. I made lima beans and Barley the other day, and threw in smoked sausage pieces.

I haven’t used too much bacon grease for our own cooking. I just feel kind of guilty when I do. But there is a BLT salad recipe that uses the grease in the dressing, and I don’t skimp on that one.

[upcountry miss]

I’m with Raymond’s mother. Woe be unto anyone fooling with my jar of bacon grease!! With only two of us now, bacon grease can be in short supply around here. My grown children save all of their grease for me as they don’t use it(not good for you mom, tsk,tsk) With no cholesteral issues and at our age (nearly 87 and 90) I guess a little bacon grease is not a problem. We use it for SOO many things!! Can’t imagine cooking corned beef hash with anything but bacon grease. When I deep fry clam puffs, a few tablespoons of bacon grease in the hot fat adds so much to the flavor. Ditto for home fries, eggs and a litttle with the bacon bits in clam chowder.

[bgill]

Cut up chicken into nugget or tenderloin sizes. Wrap with bacon. No other seasoning. Skillet fry or bake in oven. When done, remove the pieces. Stir in 2 oz of cream cheese/yogurt/sour cream/cream into the bacon grease to dissolve into a sauce. Pour over chicken. YUM! Three ingredients. Best ever.

I’ve printed out many recipes that require minimum ingredients and substitutions and put into the prep files.