I've turned into a lard man, how about you?

In My Humble Opinion
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It’s not exactly new news, but I didn’t learn about it until just recently: lard doesn’t appear to be as unhealthy as once thought and it’s apparently better than vegetable oils, Crisco and butter.

Well, I was tickled pink when I heard this and squealed with delight (internally; I was, after all, in public at the time). So, out to the dumpster went the salads, veggies and oatmeal and now it’s fry, fry, fry, all the time baby!

Just kidding. But, I did substitute using vegetable oils and butter with lard 100%. One of the biggest benefits for me is the higher smoke point of lard (375f) allowing higher cooking temperature, resulting in crisper food. Finally, my fried eggplant came out of the pan crispy and tasty, not soggy and oily. When I saw that restaurant-quality eggplant on my plate, I really did squeal with delight (why not, if I’m using a pig’s fat, I might as well use his squeal, too).

My French Fries come out great cooked in lard. But, I really want to find some affordable beef tallow to fry them to taste like the old McD fries of yore.

The Tibby Diet (I can send you the book for $29.99 plus S&H): I eat either really bad, or really good. It’s a conscious decision. Life’s too short not to enjoy fried foods on a regular basis. But, my healthy/bad ratio is a fairly commendable ~3/1: one tasty breakfast of eggs & bacon (just 1 egg and 1 strip…and then another strip when nobody is looking) followed by two days of bland oatmeal breakfast; one scrumptious dinner of fried chicken/eggplant/oysters/catfish/etc., followed by 2 dinners of some kind of healthy crap. Lunches are typically semi-bad and tasty, but small portioned. After dinner, solely to roto-rooter my arteries of plaque, I [del]chug[/del] sip two [del]jugs[/del] glasses of [del]Mad Dog 20/20[/del] fine Merlot.

It’s a diet I can live with, and guess what? It didn’t turn me into a lard-ass!***

So, do you fry? Deep-fry or pan-fry? Are you a lard man/woman; if not, what do you use to fry with? Got any good fry recipes you’d care to share?

***…I’m not saying I don’t have a large-ish ass, just that my diet didn’t give it to me…I blame genetics and a malfunctioning metabolism. :frowning:

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Missed the edit. I meant to say I eat one meal of unhealthy food followed by 3 days of healthy meals (not 2). Don’t want anybody to think I’m really a lard-o.

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This made me laugh.
I myself am trying to avoid the “synthetic” products that are supposed to be healthier.
There is nothing more tastier than eggs cooked in bacon fat, toast with REAL butter, home-made jam or honey.

Dog gone it, now you went and made me hungry.
:smiley:

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Go to your local butcher/meat shop. That is what I do.

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Never had a problem with it. It’s the secret ingredient.

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Coming from a farm, I grew up with lard and it does make food taste better, but I often have thought, that is because what I’m used to.

I haven’t had any in years and years, I’ll have to go buy some. Love that duck fat…LOL

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Lard is wonderful. We currently have a few pounds of pig fat in the freezer waiting to be rendered. And a staple in our kitchen is left-over bacon fat.

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Not me. I’ve always been a lard (or any other animal fat) man. Never shied away from it.