Very East Bay Grease

I have photo evidence, recently uncovered, from this year’s Christmas breakfast. I volunteered to do OJ and Bacon for the big family shindig at my mom’s place. We have a large family, so I bought a lot of bacon. A lot.

I cooked eight pounds of bacon that morning. Three on the stove and five in the oven. The following images were taken Christmas night. After the grease had congealed:

Bacon Leavings

Bacon Leavings II

The house stopped smelling like bacon yesterday.

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  • http://www.leahpeah.com/blog leahpeah

    that, my friend, is some tasty looking fat.

  • lipseyebrows

    Holy crap! You took pictures of my worst nightmare. How’d you know?

  • moonrattled

    I like the blurbochef recipe for shrimps and scallops. It sounds like prawns would work nicely, too. To avoid rubberizing the seafood, don’t add them to the sauce until you’re ready to blacken them. (?) Please post anymore you try and like. The New York Times has a great feature on home-baked Macaroni and Cheese…including the crusty-topped version which is my personal favourite. http://​www​.nytimes​.com/​2​0​0​6​/​0​1​/​0​4​/​d​i​n​i​n​g​/​0​4​w​i​n​t.html

  • http://mssisyphus.blogspot.com Ms Sisyphus

    Ewwwwww.

    You’ve just hit on the reason why I cna only have bacon at the IHOP. While I love that porcine goodness, I cannot stand waiting the few hours for the smell to dissipate. Weeks??? It’s enough to make me rewatch Babe and renew my vegetarianism.

    I miss my mom.…

  • http://www.eighthourlunch.com Eight Hour Lunch

    Jon, you know that if there’s any true South at all in your family that your supposed to save that stuff. You know, for gravy, candles, face cream, waterproofing for your boots…

  • http://dooce.migrantroo.com minxlj

    Hmm. And I wonder why I’m a vegetarian?? haha

  • http://www.nothingbutbonfires.com Nothing But Bonfires

    Oooh, you could have it on toast.

    Or you could carry it around with you and freak people out by pretending it’s leftover from your recent foray with liposuction.

    Ah, the possibilities!

  • lemoose

    I had a friend named Bacon. When a doctor enquiring about his health asked: “What do you feel like now?”, he replied: “I feel like having some bacon.”

    And the name stuck with him ever since.

    I think you’re holding some evidence from us, where is the leftover lettuce, tomato, and mayonaise?

  • http://thesheltonfreepress.typepad.com Jenna Shelton

    Wow! Now that is some Bacon!!! Our puppy loves the smell of bacon, it makes her so crazy.…..if she was in a house filled with that bacon smell I would have to medicate her.

  • http://www.ransom-note-typography.com jon deal

    Cue Homer Simpson:

    “Mmmm, bacon.”

    Important safety tip everyone: NEVER fry bacon in the nude. Ouch.

  • http://trattoriabreve.blogspot.com Arabella

    Wait a minute.…bacon smell is bad??? And here I was, getting all ready to buy a Blurbodoocery bacon candle handmade from all the leftover bacon fat.

  • http://tim-o-rama.blogspot.com tim

    You can cook bacon in the oven?!?

  • http://www.blurbomat.com blurb

    Tim, you can. You have to be careful. Use mid-level racks, cook it slow and at 375∞. Flip at about 10 minutes in. Great way to cook it for a large group of people. It’s not quite the same, but come on, bacon.

  • http://laziza7717yahoo.com Laziza

    When I’m feeling naughty, I cook the bacon first, save the fat, then cook the eggs in it.

    Another note of thanks to add to the shrimp-and-scallops one below: I have NOT been able to stop listening to The Rosebuds since your 3hive list. I love discovering a new band through serendipity. (If, by “serendipity,” I mean “other people’s work.”) Hat’s off to you, sir.

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/72feetabovesealevel/ 72feetabovesealevel

    Nothing spells fun like 8 punds of bacon!

  • http://www.iprettymuchhateeverything.com Torrie

    Now was not the time for me to see those pictures.

  • http://seriously-silly.blogspot.com Shelli

    Yuck. But not yucky enough to make me not want to eat bacon.

  • jenjifer

    The oven is the ONLY way to cook bacon in my house. Yummmm. I’d smear the grease behind my ears as perfume if I didn’t fear a pack of animals mistaking me for food!

  • http://bigdlittledmistatruffyandme.blogspot.com Karen Rani

    You can also cook bacon for a large crowd, on the BBQ. All the fat drips out of it and there is very little patting with paper towel and such. Yes, we BBQ in the winter. I’m like, SO Canadian, eh? We do everything in the winter that we do in the summer! Deck parties! (Beer keeps just as cold in the snow as it does in the fridge honey.)

    Anyway — that is some serious fat. Gross!

  • Dr. To You

    I cook bacon in the microwave sometimes, in between a bunch of paper towels.

  • http://maxgus.blogspot.com/ napangel

    You know what bacon tastes great with?

    Shrimp and scallops!!!

  • http://tiggerlane.blogspot.com Tiggerlane

    I make bacon EVERY Sunday for my husband, kid, and dog. The dog would have a coronary WITHOUT the bacon, and I almost vomit when I hear the hubby holler, “Save me some of that grease so I can cook eggs.” I thought he was the only lard-loving weirdo on the planet! Good to know that there are other people that cook eggs that way. I guess.

    Also, I love the ad generator on the google inset:

    “Scallop wrapped in bacon”

    Almost makes me want to type something really silly in the comments to see if the ads would change to reflect the content!

  • http://www.medusaeyes.com Steph

    Bacon grease is GREAT for making refried beans. If you’re ever so inclined. Which I am. Often.

  • http://www.jonniker.com Jonniker

    *runs screaming in terror*

    OH MY GOD.

  • http://razdreams.blogspot.com RazDreams

    gah-ross. gross.

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