Glad to help!
Another thing I do when I smoke brisket or chuck roast is to save the fat chunks and any excess fat after the cooking process, which I render into lard for later use. I don’t use much of it, but just a tablespoon or so of that lends a luxurious and smoky hint to other dishes that’s really nice. I’ll use that for instance when cooking down onions or mushrooms for a dish instead of butter.
Thank you!
I had a food and drink topic until a few days ago. I haven’t figured out Substack yet.
May I move my old topic to it?
Sorry, I can’t answer your question. Substack and the old BBS are dead to me now. This is where many of the shipwrecked washed ashore.
ETA: I think the consensus is that we’re no longer calling ourselves “happy mutants” collectively.
Depends on where you live you can try a couple of things. Restaurants that cook with duck or duck fat you might be able to convince them to sell you a tub of it.
You can alternatively go to a butcher, if they process duck they’re bound to be saving the duck fat.
Are there any Asian grocery stores near you? Their deli likely has duck, check if they sell the duck fat or if they’re willing to save some of the fatty trimmings for you to render out and use.
Sadly, there are no Asian grocery stores nearby (I live in a pretty rural area). But one of the local butchers might have some duck fat, I will have to ask around. I didn’t think to ask when I was shopping for the beef tenderloin (and I’m usually not looking to buy duck…I’m not sure how commonly it is sold by our local butchers). Definitely worth a shot, though. Thank you!
At the very least they should have beef and chicken fat or trimmings
That probably means no kosher butcher either. Sadface.
That’s true 
drooooooooool…
Well, I texted that straight to the chef
There is a veg*n alternative to schmaltz that works well in other recipes, so it might be worth trying: sauté extremely minced onions until they liquify, basically.
ETA:
They call it Schmelz instead of Schmalz because of consumer protection laws. And of course there is actual Schmalz from animal fat with roasted onions in it as well.
But everybody just says Zwiebelschmalz and usually this works out as intended.
Scorpios can be a bit mysterious at times. They just seem so cool and enigmatic over there doing whatever Scorpios do. Similarly, gnocchi is great and everyone loves it, but how many people know what it even is really? Is it pasta? Boiled potato balls? Savory Italian marshmallows? All three? Truly a philosophical quandary, just like Scorpios are.
Read Sporked’s ranking of the best gnocchi
Best horoscope I have ever gotten!
Wild! We were just invited to a gnocchi-making event at a winery! We won’t go because gnocchi is so easy we had the kids make it as a “craft” project when they were like 5 and 7. But we love gnocchi!
I’m a Scorpio too!
I was actually looking for Italian dishes that corresponded to one’s zodiac sign. We could make up our own, you know!
