After one miserable week and one draggy week, I'm approaching post-flu. The two key signs of this are that my brain now thinks in sentences of more than five words and that my sense of smell is starting to come back. I've never lost my sense of smell before and it's been more disconcerting than I would have predicted (see--long sentences). And without smell it's almost impossible to cook well.
So today I learned two things. The secret ingredients for any tasty meal are garlic and bacon fat. This revelation brought to you by my laziness. Yes, I know it's a shock, but I've been too lazy to clean out a frying pan after cooking up our December treat of bacon.
The first bacon and garlic miracle was performed with kale--sauteed with garlic and a bit of bacon drippings. Amazing.
The second bacon and garlic miracle was performed this morning when I used the same (still unsoaped pan) to brown some stewing meat which I plopped drippings and all into the crock pot with a lot of garlic, pureed tomatoes, and root veg. Eight hours later very good stew was had.
The grannies with their cans of dripping were on to a good thing.
Heather
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