Try this!

[ThunderLund78]

Was up in Ottertail County since last Thursday ice fishing.  We did pretty good - enough to have fish two of the nights and still bring plenty home.  Anyway, every year for this trip, my buddy buys some good, thick T-bones or ribeyes for supper in the cabin for one of the nights.  He cooks them in a pan on the stove; this year we had some fish to fry up with them, so instead of washing out the pan and adding oil, we fried a couple of fillets in the rendered beef fat from the steaks that was left in the pan.

It was amazing - definitely an interesting way to jazz-up the ordinary breaded fish fillet.  I've had fillets fried in bacon grease which is out of this world, this was just as good.

[smurfy]

back in the old days, my grandparents fried all there meat. pork chops, steaks. then we'd dip a slice of bread  in the drippings..........oh was that tasty.

[leech~~]

3 minutes ago, smurfy said:

back in the old days, my grandparents fried all there meat. pork chops, steaks. then we'd dip a slice of bread  in the drippings..........oh was that tasty.

Everything was cooked in saved bacon grease when I was a kid. Mom was a good cook or the bacon helped it all!

[leechlake]

I've been making suet out of the bacon grease.  Add peanut butter to it and some corn meal.  Tastes like cookie dough. All the birds are dead from coronary disease but I'm still plugging along.

[smurfy]

42 minutes ago, leech~~ said:

Everything was cooked in saved bacon grease when I was a kid. Mom was a good cook or the bacon helped it all!

heck we'd just go to the store and buy good old fashioned lard!!!!!!!!!!!

no wonder I had a quadrouple heart bypass back in 2011!!!!!!!!! and that does prove I DO  have a heart!!!!!!!!

[Dotch]

Pie is great but when the crust is made with lard it is the bomb!!!!  

[reinhard1]

Maybe it's a German thing but this brings back memories for me also.  My grandfather came to visit us many years ago in the 70's from Germany.  I could tell a long story but I'll just talk about the grease thing.  On one trip we took him to the Issabella/Finland area.  Camped by a trout lake.  He didn't fish much, just loved to see the area.  One day I made a Fresh Picnic pork roast.  The whole picnic with the skin on and all the fat.  Made some German kraut and potatoes with the picnic.  The camper smelled awesome.  We all sat down to eat and All of us put the fat aside and ate the meaty part of course.  Not my grandfather.  The guy ate some of the meat but it had to have fat on it and his favorite part was the skin.  It was a great meal that I remember to this day.  Those potatoes soaked in all the juices from the pork roast and the kraut, awesome.

That night was a little on the cool side being early June up north.  So the next day we were going to have leftovers.  Grandfather wanted to know where the leftovers were.  I told him I have them in the big cooler and we were going to finish it off later in the day.  He said he just wanted a sandwich from the pot.  Ok,  I brought it out for him and he gets a knife and I thought He was going to slice into the meat but he just took the drippings which of course turned into lard.  Spread that nice and thick on the bread and he was a happy camper.  He lived to be in his late 90's.  I saw him eat a stick of butter as if it was ice cream up in Canada on another trip, but that's another story.  good luck.

[Boar]

Yup animal fat is bad, but so bad its the best, specially like dotch says pie crust outa lard, grandmas best pie.

[ThunderLund78]

All I know is that I'm normally am a "good boy" and cut the fat off the steak and push it aside when I'm eating it - I don't want to, but it's the years of my mom and wife incessantly harping about apparently how bad it is for you sinking in - I'm just a trained dog, now.  But when we go up ice fishing and my Buddy cooks the big steaks, all that's left on my plate is a very clean bone when I'm done.

[smurfy]

3 minutes ago, ThunderLund78 said:

All I know is that I'm normally am a "good boy" and cut the fat off the steak and push it aside when I'm eating it - I don't want to, but it's the years of my mom and wife incessantly harping about apparently how bad it is for you sinking in - I'm just a trained dog, now.  But when we go up ice fishing and my Buddy cooks the big steaks, all that's left on my plate is a very clean bone when I'm done.

so in all reality what your saying is when the cats away......da mice will misbehave!!!!!!!!!!

[ThunderLund78]

Only when it comes to eating and drinking, Smurf. 

[LindellProStaf]

My Grandma made the best fried chicken I ever had.  She fried it in spitting hot oil and then put it in one of those blue speckled baking pans with a lid and baked it in the oven. I have tried but cannot duplicate it.  My cousin told me recently that when Grandma planned on having fired chicken that she would fry pork chops in the chicken frying pan the day before.  Then she added lard (the stuff in the green box I remember) to it.  That is what gave her chicken the nice dark color and the great taste.  I will have to try it now.

[smurfy]

do they actually sell lard nowadays??????????

[Juneau4]

21 minutes ago, smurfy said:

do they actually sell lard nowadays??????????

Grocery stores and locker plants have it.

[LindellProStaf]

Now I don't think it is 100% lard anymore.  

The 100% lard is much healthier than the artificial grease that is added to it. 

That is why lard has gotten a bad name the last few decades.  It was not the pure thing.

[RebelSS]

Gotta have this bubbling in a cast iron pan to make REAL fried chicken. Um num. 

 

[delcecchi]

1 hour ago, LindellProStaf said:

Now I don't think it is 100% lard anymore.  

The 100% lard is much healthier than the artificial grease that is added to it. 

That is why lard has gotten a bad name the last few decades.  It was not the pure thing.

Best if one renders their own lard.... Leaf lard said to be best. 

Supermarket lard is lard, but hydrogenated to make it a little harder, or it would run all over the shelves.

[Boar]

lard is also the key to the percect doughnut, for those that make their own.

[Dotch]

Yummmmm...Wonder if Casey's uses lard? Them are some good donuts for store bought.

[reinhard1]

I think a lot can be said about pork fat.  When I worked in the Nicollet area near downtown Mpls.,  we had Mexican and Asian folks buy all the pork fat we could put out.  Had standing orders for it.  I figured what it was used for but I did ask a few, and they all used it for cooking.  On a side note, talking about pork, there is nothing better than roasting a pork and beef roast together [pork butt and chuck roast for example].  Makes the best gravy in the world and is a great combo.  good luck.

[ThunderLund78]

I've heard about that.  My sister's neighbor smokes pork and beef together and mixes is together with the drippings.  I think they call it "Dead Dog."  I would've come up with a better name, but whatever.  I've heard it's outstanding.

[smurfy]

15 minutes ago, reinhard1 said:

I think a lot can be said about pork fat.  When I worked in the Nicollet area near downtown Mpls.,  we had Mexican and Asian folks buy all the pork fat we could put out.  Had standing orders for it.  I figured what it was used for but I did ask a few, and they all used it for cooking.  On a side note, talking about pork, there is nothing better than roasting a pork and beef roast together [pork butt and chuck roast for example].  Makes the best gravy in the world and is a great combo.  good luck.

oh YEAAAAAAAAAA! THAT IS ABSOLUTELY NUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!