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Monday, April 25, 2005

If you look very closely, you can see the outline of Antarctica on this rendering lard, except the ice is on the outside. Some nutritionists say that eating a pound of lard a day is good for your pancreas. Others disagree.         9:31:35 PM    comment []

Byproduct   Despite the low temperature cooking, the shinkenspeck yielded a couple pounds of manteca into the handily placed drip pan. That’s lard. I almost threw it away until I got to thinking it might be pretty good to fry up a batch of pork rinds. Bacon fat, a little smoky flavor – won’t hurt ‘em a bit.   Since I last purchased pork rind pellets a couple of years ago they have skyrocketed in price even more than sweet West Texas crude. I bought 10 pounds of pellets for about twenty-two bucks. Now that goes for $65. 10 pounds lasts a heckuva long time and I still have some left. Don’t know if I’ll order more when they’re gone.   Footnote: There is a city in California named “Manteca.” I wonder if any English-speaking people ever had the courage to name a town “Lard?”   Update: I just checked prices again at Wallace Pork Skins and the 10 pound bag of pellets is now back down to a more reasonable $30.     7:00:19 PM    comment []