Dearest Bacon Grease,

I have a confession to make…

I have misunderstood you for so long…

all these years I’ve cast you aside; dumped you into an old coffee can, just to throw you out with the garbage, treated you as an unwanted by-product…

How could I have been so foolish?  So blind?  So wasteful?

Why didn’t I see your potential?

All those delicacies that could have been created…all those veggies that could have been eaten by my 4 yr old just by sautéing them in your magic…

I hereby decree that every time I fry up some delicious bacon

I will pour off that flavorful, golden deliciousness into a jar…

put a lid on it, and savor every last precious drop of it…

Never again will I only use butter to saute my eggs, steak or potatoes, never again will I wonder what else I could use in my salad dressing to give it more depth, never again will I take you for granted…