Ok so I love fat and would have a hard time dreaming up a more attractive book cover than this one. Opening it up and having a read did not disappoint. It really is a great book.
It’s divided up in to four sections: butter, pork fat, poultry fat, and beef and lamb fat. [...]

Tags: book, fat, ingredients, lard, mclagan, recipes, suet, tallow

My guest post on Mark’s Daily Apple last week triggered a few questions about a couple of different oils. Here are seven oils and my recommended uses for them, along with three that I don’t recommend and why.
The Good Guys (In No Particular Order)
1. Lard
Lard is pork fat, the highest grade being “leaf lard,” [...]

Tags: butter, canola, coconut oil, flax, lard, olive oil, palm oil, tallow, vegetable oil

Last week, I realized that I was running a 15 cubic foot freezer to keep about 2 cubic feet of food cold. Not being a fan of wasting electricity (freezers work harder the less frozen stuff there is in them), I decided to consolidate it all into the freezer with the dog food. [...]

Tags: lard, saturated fat, tallow