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Nov. 7th, 2010 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cblj_backupThere's a joke I first heard from my stepfather's very Texan family that goes, "It's not a real Southern recipe unless it starts Fry a pound of bacon. Set bacon aside..."
It is true that no meal which starts with bacon can ever be truly bad, because anything that comes after the bacon can be fried in the bacon fat. Eggs, for instance, mixed with a bit of chive and some pepper, scramble up lovely in bacon fat. They turn grey, but they eat well. And then if you sort of tilt the pan and scoop them out you can fry bread in the remainder, and there's your one-pan breakfast.
I usually cook up an entire panful of bacon and eat maybe a quarter of it, saving off the rest in the fridge for snacking. I made yoghurt cheese today with the remaining yoghurt, so that I could make new yoghurt for lunches, and I mixed it up with herbs and later today I shall have ritz crackers topped with herbed cheese and bits of bacon.
BossBoss brews his own beer and is expanding into making his own cured bacon and sausage. He's planning eventually to quit the Bossing business and open what sounds like the best brewpub ever. I told him it's good to have a dream.
It is true that no meal which starts with bacon can ever be truly bad, because anything that comes after the bacon can be fried in the bacon fat. Eggs, for instance, mixed with a bit of chive and some pepper, scramble up lovely in bacon fat. They turn grey, but they eat well. And then if you sort of tilt the pan and scoop them out you can fry bread in the remainder, and there's your one-pan breakfast.
I usually cook up an entire panful of bacon and eat maybe a quarter of it, saving off the rest in the fridge for snacking. I made yoghurt cheese today with the remaining yoghurt, so that I could make new yoghurt for lunches, and I mixed it up with herbs and later today I shall have ritz crackers topped with herbed cheese and bits of bacon.
BossBoss brews his own beer and is expanding into making his own cured bacon and sausage. He's planning eventually to quit the Bossing business and open what sounds like the best brewpub ever. I told him it's good to have a dream.
