Posted on 08/25/2021 2:41:34 PM PDT by mylife
A few weeks ago, I joined my good friend Cara for an evening of bacon, eggs, and Night Mimosas (mimosas consumed, perhaps trashily, after 7 p.m.). We were celebrating a bit of good news the way all distinguished ladies do: by eating breakfast for dinner.
After Cara fried up the bacon and sloshed out a few Night Mimosas, I volunteered for egg-frying duty. I sidled up to her skillet, which was, to my delight, full of rapidly hardening bacon grease. Cara apologized and offered to wash out the skillet. I looked her dead in the eye, shook my head slowly, and cracked five eggs directly into the pan. She watched wide-eyed as I spent the next five minutes slugging a Night Mimosa and flinging grease over the tops of the eggs. The result: five perfect eggs with runny yolks, lacy edges, little crispy brown bits up top, and perfectly pillowy whites.
Cara was stunned. She had never seen anyone baste an egg in bacon grease. This concerned me, as I had always assumed bacon-basting was a common practice. It’s my preferred egg variation; my mom does it, and her mom did it before her. But I realize now that not all families engage in reckless full-fat cooking for three meals a day, seven days a week. If, like Cara, you grew up in a low-to-moderate-fat household, this is my plea: start frying up your eggs in bacon fat. You won’t regret it.
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Has it in old crisco can. Maybe I should start me one. My mom uses it for a lot. Green beans are amazing.
Want a nice salad. By hand tear some fresh Cos, Romaine, or Ice box lettuce into pieces about the size playing card and place in bowl. Drizzle about two tablespoons of hot bacon grease over the lettuce while stirring gently with a spoon. You want to wilt the lettuce. Dress the wilted lettuce with Old Dutch Sweat & Sour dressing. Serve immediately. You need nothing else.
This is the classic Wilted Salad. Simple, easy, and really scrumptious.
Eggs fried in bacon grease is fantastic! We did it all the time.
Set it on fire, then use it for a lifetime…
Bacon, eggs, lots of pepper, and orange juice (or grape fruit juice) and coffee. Maybe some french toast or grits.
Perfect Breakfast.
Well I always have lack of electricity in mind because we lived off grid for five years.
A 45-minute cook at 250 should get the steak to an internal temperature of 130°. Then the quick sear will get it to a perfect medium all throughout.
-PJ
Actually just talked my wife into starting one. Now we have to get a bunch of bacon. Poor me. Lol.
I love bagels with cream cheese too...with bacon.
been there, done that with spinach.
yum
If only women understood the two scents a man can’t resist: the fresh smell of fried bacon, and WD-40.
BTW, I do this in a counter-top oven to keep the main oven free for something else (like the baked potato). A baked potato cooks better in the full-size oven because it has more cubic inches of heat to push into the potato, which is dense. It's like the difference between cooking with a D battery vs. a C battery in terms of how much heat pressure the oven puts on the food.
Since the potato takes an hour to cook, I don't mind the 45 minutes for the steak.
-PJ
And fry your potatoes/hash browns in Duck Fat; an amazing taste.
We do mix it with olive oil to extend it.
I don’t really understand the allure of grits, I am not adverse to them but like polenta I dont get it, its corn mush.
I have come damn close to fisticuffs with some southerners for my lack of love for grits
I make those too but you cant see the eggs. Im in Wisconsin so its a law that we have to melt cheese on it.
***This concerned me, as I had always assumed bacon-basting was a common practice.***
I used to do this all the time back in the 1960s when we had a big slab of unsliced bacon. Slice it myself, cook the thick slices of bacon, then break two eggs in it and bast the eggs till they look like you said.
The bacon was even better with an edge of the pig skin still on it.
I don’t like ‘em much, either.
They’re not bad, but I just don’t get it!
1) scent of a woman...
2) fresh cooked bacon...
3) cam 2 race fuel
4) wd40...
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