You know as a true southern woman, I must have a little bacon grease in most everything I cook. Food just doesn't taste the same without it, and since you use so little, how much harm can a little spoon of bacon grease do? Seriously!
In the south we put a little bacon grease in our beans, ALL kinds of beans - green, baked, soup, white, northern, lima, pole, Kentucky wonders, Italian and the list goes on. Nope, a little salt and pepper, just won't do. You have to let it simmer on low with those beans so the flavor goes all through the bean.
What else do we use it for? How about a good fried egg - you know the kind with the curled up, crispy edge. Or, fried cabbage? Yummo! Then of course you have to add a little to your oil if you are frying chicken, pork chops, french fries, etc! It's for the flavoring of course!
Some people put in bacon bits to flavor with - but that just ain't southern! It's downright fake if you ask me.
Nope, if you need that bacon flavor, you have to have the grease! I'm just sayin'!
