Thamnophis Folks' Recipes - Italian

[Garter_Gertie]

No pintos. And it HAS TO BE sweet cornbread!

[jitami]

Ok, Gertie... I like the idea of having a jar o'bacon grease in the fridge to use... but doesn't the grease at the bottom get rancid? How do you know when to throw it out... or do you just not ever throw it out? Green beans in bacon grease sound darned good right now!!!

[olive oil]

No brown beans I grew up on em.

[drache]

it's fine to use bacon grease, but the goose fat is tastier
I'm not up for the recipe right now - too much typing
maybe tomorrow

[Garter_Gertie]

Olive, they're navy beans - white. NOT brown. DAMN good.

Tami, never goes bad unless you keep it out on the stove as my grandmother did - kept it liquid. But she went THROUGH it like Grant took Richmond.

I sometimes pitch the jar. Because... Well... Cat fur flew, too much onion...

Yes. You put in bacon grease where you've cooked onions, eggs, whatever. If too much egg, well... After awhile maybe you should pitch.

I have NEVER in all my years of doing the comfort of bacon grease (whether my Gram's or mine) ever gotten sick.

But the thing is, I store up more than I can use and so - besides worrying about FLYING FUR - just pitch. Because I keep it all: flavored with Penzy's paprika, their garlic, their different spice combos; plain old onions; with butter... I keep it all.

It ssssssoooooo adds flavor to different things you're cooking.