{"id":138,"date":"2011-08-15T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2011-08-15T14:12:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T14:12:00","slug":"wilted-lettuce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=138","title":{"rendered":"Wilted Lettuce"},"content":{"rendered":"

My parents are southern folks.\u00a0 We grew up drinking sweet tea, put salt on our watermelon, peanuts in our cokes and ate Charles Chips by the barrel full. Fried chicken was a weekly occurrence with sides of mashed potatoes and pan gravy, white bread, homemade bread-and-butter pickles, tomato and cucumber salad, and wilted lettuce.\u00a0 My\u00a0 mom used to keep a can of bacon grease next to the stove and she’d use it for adding flavor to a pot of green beans and potatoes, making wilted lettuce or just for frying. This was, of course, before we knew of the dangers of saturated fat, sleeping in the back window of the car, or riding your bike behind the bug spray truck.<\/p>\n

Since my garden has produced an unreasonable amount of leaf lettuce this year, and my folks were coming over for dinner, I thought this would be a great time to make wilted lettuce.\u00a0 This recipe is my mom’s classic version (although the bacon grease is now substituted with vegetable oil).<\/p>\n

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8 cups of leaf lettuce
2 T. sugar
Salt and Pepper
1\/4 C. thinly sliced onion
1\/4 C. vegetable oil
2 T. apple cider vinegar
3 strips of cooked bacon, crumbled<\/p>\n

Wash and spin the lettuce and put in a large bowl along with the onions.\u00a0 Sprinkle the sugar on top of the lettuce and add the salt and pepper.\u00a0 In a small pan, heat the oil until medium hot.\u00a0 Remove the pan from the heat and being very careful, pour in the vinegar – it will spatter!\u00a0 Pour the hot oil\/vinegar mixture all over the lettuce, add the bacon and toss. <\/p>\n

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My parents are southern folks.\u00a0 We grew up drinking sweet tea, put salt on our watermelon, peanuts in our cokes and ate Charles Chips by the barrel full. Fried chicken was a weekly occurrence with sides of mashed potatoes and pan gravy, white bread, homemade bread-and-butter pickles, tomato and cucumber salad, and wilted lettuce.\u00a0 My\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}