Californica to take back your Federal tax cut...

Ah, neat.

Out here east of the Ponderosa Ranch we need the with burn marks on the perimeter, to match the burning map.

So far I do that redneck-style. Print on a sheet of paper, cut it out and then cut a slightly larger piece of sturdy clear packaging tape.

Mine go in a coffee cup in the frig. When the cup is full the extras go onto the dry dog food. My dogs like bacon too. :^)

It seems a waste to not keep the bacon fat. (It's ~1/2 the mass?) I use it to brown all my meats. It seems to be able to take a higher heat, than say olive oil or butter. I don't know if that's true or not.

George H. Oh, you can try my technique, it's a lot more work than the oven or microwave, cause ya gotta go fuss with it ever 5 minutes. AFAICT the slower the better. Weekend mornings, I sit at the kitchen table, coffee, newspaper/crossword puzzle, and a timer. (otherwise I burn the bacon.) GH

My favorite cook book has a recipe for chicken confit, but I haven't tried it.

Ahh dude.. where is 'here'? Onions, caramelized in bacon fat, is one of my favorite things. Given a chance, I add them to everything I make.

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That is starting to sound like the kind of diet that made North Karelia the world leader in heart attack death rates back in the 1970s.

The Finns have got socialised medicine, and worked out a way of getting the diet better and the heart attack rate down. Their scheme does seem to have been exported to the USA a few years ago, and may yet get to a town near y ou - hopefully before cardio-vascular disease kills you.

My father, uncle and younger brother all had dangerous levels of coronary h eart disease, and my father and younger brother both had by-pass surgery to mitigate it - my uncle got his blockage before the operation was widely av ailable, but he was a doctor and look after himself well enough that he did n't get his second coronary - which killed him - until he was 81.

I had a calcified aortic valve (which has been replaced) which meant that I was put on statins early enough to avoid any significant plaque formation in my coronary arteries - one is 30% blocked, but they didn't feel the need to fix that when they put in the new aortic valve.