Recipe: Green Beans with Bacon and Shallots

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Green beans with bacon and caramelized shallots is classic comfort food: simple and well-seasoned. This recipe for green beans with bacon is savory and easy. While my version of green beans with bacon may vary slightly from the original served by my godmother, the essences of the flavors remain the same: fresh green beans seasoned by a healthy serving of bacon and shallots. While the ingredients may be humble, it is often the simplest of foods and preparations that yield the very best dishes. If you’d like to use pastured lard, why not learn how to render it.

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Making Fat: How to Render Lard

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Rendering lard is a lost art – a worthwhile technique forgotten in a fat-phobic, Lean Cuisine-centered culture.  Many cooks, seeking out local foods and forgotten traditions, have rediscovered how to render lard in their homes. Learning how to render lard needn’t be a difficult task; it requires clean fat, clean water, a good stock pot… Read More

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Reader Questions: Animal Fat & Lactic Acid Fermentation

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Ricki asked: Actually … Ricki commented on Fats for Cooking and Fats to Eat Uncooked a few days ago, but I thought it was such an insightful and good question that I wanted to give it greater visibility. Q: Thanks for the great info re: cooking fats and oils. Just wondering about the source of… Read More

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Fats for Cooking & Fats to Eat Uncooked

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Fats contribute a great deal to food and cooking, but not every fat is suitable for every purpose.   Just as not every fat is suitable for cooking, neither is every oil available on your supermarket shelves suitable for a nutritious and healthy diet.   Certain fats such as beef tallow and coconut oil have… Read More

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