How To Cook Like Your Grandmother
A Guide to Cooking with Real Food the Way Your Grandma Used to
Everything's better with bacon. Everything. But there's a better bacon than bacon ... Wait! Come back, I'm not crazy! Okay, now what I was trying to say before you started laughing and walking away, is that there's a better bacon than bacon ... for making bacon bits. … [Read more...]
I've always liked my potato salad much drier than what you usually get from a store. The dressing is mostly mayonnaise with just enough vinegar to add some "bite" to it. And hard boiled egg ... lots of hard boiled egg. So today's recipe is a little bit of a departure, since the dressing is a bit thinner than I usually do. Of course, that's because I made the mayo from scratch. Using rendered bacon fat instead of vegetable oil. Have I ever mentioned how Everything Is Better With Bacon? … [Read more...]
Not too long ago the average housewife would have been amazed at how wasteful we are, throwing out all that great bacon fat. After all it's a rendered fat, just like lard or tallow, suitable for cooking and use in recipes. I followed the lead of someone who's done more research and started keeping mine. It's really easy to keep, and much better than vegetable oil for frying. … [Read more...]
