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://tinyurl.com/aq8gn Maxine

    I grew up with a grease can in the kitchen.

    I actually prefer bacon cooked in the oven, although it does hasten the need to clean the oven. Hope it was your mom’s oven!

  • http://cesioroujamais.blogspot.com/ J_Bo

    Ahhh…bacon. I personally think the stuff will steal your soul.…

    Hey, my co-worker is a big fan of some restaurant here that serves up something called Cheap Dates~ bacon wrapped dates! Kinda gross, but not as gross as the smell of fat lingering in the air for 10 days. Eek.

  • http://deepthoughtsfuzzymemories.blogspot.com/ tksinclair

    Gawd…reminds me that for years my grandmother would always have a coffee can filled with bacon grease in her refrigerator. Funny, I can’t remember her ever “serving” bacon but I only remember her saving the grease. Maybe she was frying bacon and throwing it away. It was in W.Va so who knows what the method to her madness was. Anyway, that’s some nice bacon grease you got there — enough to make any southerner proud. (PS I got the same Xmas present from my incredible husband! It rocks, huh?)

  • http://www.bubbsvblog.blogspot.com Tristin

    That’s so funny because my mom used to have that same Folgers can full of bacon grease sitting on the stove, and I don’t recall her ever busting into it. It’s sick and wrong, but it’s kind of a comforting thought…

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