bacon grease popcorn | Red Dirt Chronicles

It’s been a while since I’ve written a regular Victory Garden post. I think I was too busy with my garden to write about my garden! Practicing what I preach many times, I’m going to “break my work down into baby steps” by sharing ONE THING today. What’s my one thing? How to make an extremely low-cost, delicious-like-crazy snack for movie nights, times when you need comfort food or for a group of friends who could use a great side for their beer or soda pop. This is a “picture-story” post with a few comments here and there, so most all the instructions are in the photo captions…

popcorn 1 — Ingredients you'll need: bulk popping corn, "pepper sauce" (any type of vinegar with a cut up variety of peppers, marinated in the bottle at least overnight), and your saved bacon grease. Lard. Bacon fat...whatever you'd like to call it. To make my pepper sauce I pulled two jalepenos, about six Tabascos and a couple of Serrano chili peppers from my garden, diced them up and stuffed them into a 1/2 bottle of Champagne vinegar I had in my fridge.

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