Warning to newbies and reminder to not-so-newbies

[DianaCox]

I’m over 16 years out, very routinely comfortable with my DS. Keeping an eye on my eating is second nature, and I don’t obsess about it. I’m going to have to attack some regain soon, but I intend to enjoy the holidays. I’m sure I don’t malabsorb as much as I used to.

Yesterday, in preparation for some holiday cooking in December (and in view of living in a Jew food desert), I made schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) from scratch. The process results in a delicious byproduct called gribbenes - crispy chicken skin chicharrones and very dark brown onion. It is supposed to be used as a garnish for other foods (like bacon bits), but it is delicious salted and eaten as a rich, greasy, yummy snack.

Which I of course did last night. Two small servings.

And I’m washing sheets and mattress pad this morning. Oops.

Maybe I should have stopped with one serving. But it’s also proof I’m still malabsorbing to some degree.

 

[southernlady]

Oops is right.

 

[Munchkin]

Yikes! Maybe it's good that I have never seen or eaten these!

 

[JackieOnLine]

I made schmaltz (rendered chicken fat) from scratch. The process results in a delicious byproduct called gribbenes - crispy chicken skin chicharrones and very dark brown onion.

well, but it sounds very tasty

 

[Spiky Bugger]

Well, in case you get crazy again…next month…you could just put a menorah in every room to act as air fresheners.

 

[Webmommy]

Oh my! The chicken gribbenes sounds good. How do you make this? Do you buy chicken skin and fat? I wanted to buy this but I am sure it's better hot and homemade. https://chicknskin.com/

 

[DianaCox]

Oh my! The chicken gribbenes sounds good. How do you make this? Do you buy chicken skin and fat? I wanted to buy this but I am sure it's better hot and homemade. https://chicknskin.com/

OMG, those sound delicious!

Yes, I asked the butcher to save me skin and fat. There was a lot of meat still on it so I had to spend a lot of time separating the meat (which I boiled for the ferals I’m feeding). Then simmered it for a very long time in my wok with just the water from the wet fat. The water eventually boiled off as the fat melted, and the skin continued to simmer in the fat. When the skin finally started to turn golden brown, I added a big sliced onion to flavor the fat (and to make crunchy onion bits. When it was all dark brown, I drained the fat into the glass measuring cup through a strainer.

 

[DianaCox]

(If I’d been wearing pajama bottoms, that’s all I would have had to wash - it wasn’t a blowout - but I was sleeping commando.)

 

[Webmommy]

OMG, those sound delicious!

Yes, I asked the butcher to save me skin and fat. There was a lot of meat still on it so I had to spend a lot of time separating the meat (which I boiled for the ferals I’m feeding). Then simmered it for a very long time in my wok with just the water from the wet fat. The water eventually boiled off as the fat melted, and the skin continued to simmer in the fat. When the skin finally started to turn golden brown, I added a big sliced onion to flavor the fat (and to make crunchy onion bits. When it was all dark brown, I drained the fat into the glass measuring cup through a strainer.

That really sounds delicious!

 

[Sheanie]

I may or may not have had my only similar experience at the Lincoln Hotel in Chicago. After having my 1st bulletproof coffee. It was fabulous.

Remarkably, DH slept thru the entire thing, and I was able to sneak the sheets into the dirty linen cart, almost pristine from midnight scrubbing.

That may or may not have happened.

 

[Webmommy]

I may or may not have had my only similar experience at the Lincoln Hotel in Chicago. After having my 1st bulletproof coffee. It was fabulous.

Remarkably, DH slept thru the entire thing, and I was able to sneak the sheets into the dirty linen cart, almost pristine from midnight scrubbing.

That may or may not have happened.

Yes. Allegedly. But you can neither confirm nor deny!

 

[bearmom]

This sounds dangerous, which means I must try these.

 

[DianaCox]

I’m trying to not dip into them again until my family gets here next week so I will still have some to share - and so I don’t have to do more laundry.

 

[Sheanie]

This sounds dangerous, which means I must try these.

Go easy, if you do. One BPC with 4 butters was all it MAY have taken.

 

[Settledownnow]

Testing 1, 2, 3. You passed the test!