Quote :

"Use the leanest cut of meat and the lowest-fat dairy product that will work in your recipe. Switch from: * Salt pork to pancetta or, for slow cooking, smoked turkey legs * Bacon to lean ham, Canadian bacon, turkey bacon, or Lightlife Fakin' Bacon (tempeh strips) * Sausage to Gimme Lean Sausage (spiced textured soy protein concentrate)"

http://tinyurl.com/lsj2to

These people have obviously never had real Southern food, otherwise they wouldn't adulterate it with crap.

9/2/2009 2:59:00 AM

True...

I find that a lot of HEALTHIER foods today lack in certain tastes...

9/2/2009 3:02:21 AM

Disease-Free Prostitute

9/2/2009 3:50:10 AM

beans a collards

9/2/2009 7:38:02 AM

There is no substitute for bacon, except bacon.
Also--pancetta? Really? First of all, it's like 6X as expensive as salt pork, and secondly, "these collards are cooked with pancetta" just doesn't sound right at all.

9/2/2009 8:58:07 AM

If you look at the ingredients of the processed "healthy" foods, I don't see how they are any better than real food that may have a little more fat or salt.

9/2/2009 9:08:42 AM

I'll eat the shit out of some turkey bacon, as long as it's crispy

9/2/2009 9:10:28 AM

^^ Exactly!

9/2/2009 9:15:26 AM

I'm gonna try biscuits and Gimme Lean gravy.

9/2/2009 9:22:13 AM

Pinto Beans & cornbread
Shrimp & Grits

9/2/2009 11:54:20 AM

what the fuck is pancetta?

9/2/2009 11:54:48 AM

9/2/2009 11:56:06 AM

looks like bacon to me. is there some magical difference?

9/2/2009 11:56:53 AM

Bacon is smoked, pancetta is not. Both are made from the same cut of pork though.

9/2/2009 12:03:42 PM

so then it totally sucks right?

9/2/2009 12:05:08 PM

wow that looks like >60% fat

Quote :

"Pinto Beans & cornbread Shrimp & Grits"

only if the cornbread and grits are made from wholegrain corn, and 99% of the time they are not, just like any bread, cereal, pasta, or grain product.

9/2/2009 2:58:58 PM

Quote :

"Bacon is smoked, pancetta is not. Both are made from the same cut of pork though."

lol how in the world does that make it a healthier substitute

9/2/2009 5:48:13 PM

9/2/2009 5:57:08 PM

because of the ass tons of salt required to smoke pork

9/2/2009 5:57:13 PM

Yeah but aren't you supposed to soak salt pork before using it? That's what my mom always did at least.

9/2/2009 5:58:21 PM

well i don't know that you have to...


but most of it is probably boiled first

9/2/2009 6:02:53 PM

nah, you can throw country ham right in the pan and fry it up

9/2/2009 6:14:31 PM

Good point.

9/8/2009 7:30:24 AM

I'm eating some healthy Smithfield's right now.

9/27/2009 7:16:36 PM

the key to proper Southern food:

9/27/2009 7:30:39 PM

Quote :

"LARD INFORMATION COUNCIL"

9/27/2009 7:41:43 PM

^ I'm sad it's not a real council

9/27/2009 7:56:31 PM