i've been invited to a deep frying party tomororow night...
items so far include dumplings, tempura, mozzarella sticks, chicken and candy bars.
i'm bringing bananas to fry (with cream and fresh cilnatro, maybe sugar and cocunut), and my friend caitlin is bringing pickles--she claims after eating one your dreams will haunted by them--in a good way... but the idea of eating a deep fried pickle kinda gives me the heebie jeebies...
what are some interesting deep fried things people have eaten on killoggs?
brandon [email] said at 3:36 PM 05-23-2006: Linus broke a deep fryer at a party once. Peeps don't deep fry well. Snicker's bars do. Bananas are a good. Twinkies just disintegrate.
brandon [email] said at 4:26 PM 05-23-2006: A deep-fried snickers bar rolled in powdered sugar. It's pretty much the best thing I've ever tasted from a deep frier, excluding catfish.
woody [email] said at 6:43 PM 05-23-2006: If you do the Snickers (Mars bars are better IMO) make sure you freeze it beforehand! Otherwise, you will supposedly have a huge mess. And most people suggest "funnel cake" batter, whatever that is. My brother used pancake batter and it tasted good.
brandon [email] said at 7:15 PM 05-23-2006: Word. Funnel cake is one of those things like oreos and koolaid that, as a child, I couldn't get enough of, but that I can barely stomach now for being too overwhelmingly sweet. It's worth trying once.
chuck [email] said at 4:43 PM 05-23-2006: Oreos are AWESOME.
I've not tried it myself but some friends made sushi then flash fried some of them. (eel, salmon and yellowtail) Guess it wasn't really considered sushi after that.
shelly [email] said at 4:59 PM 05-23-2006: I like fried pickles, but I prefer the thinner slices (like thick potato chips) to the chunk of fried pickle.
brandon [email] said at 12:26 AM 05-24-2006: kmail me your address and I'll overnight some to you, if I remember to get around to it (I'm only half-kidding, the rest is pure Scotsman)
marcia [email] said at 6:32 PM 05-23-2006: there's a sushi place that deep fries a whole bunch of things for one of their dishes...the green beans are kinda dumb, but the deep fried carrots are really good. fried corn might be good, maybe fried peas...?
marcia [email] said at 6:34 PM 05-23-2006: where i grew up we just called this fried dough. they used to always serve it at the ice skating rink...i would get fried dough, get a soda, and then afterwards suck on mustard packets. don't ask. somehow it made sense to my 10 year old senses.
kevin [email] said at 8:25 PM 05-23-2006: i just considered it white trash state fair food, UNTIL i was brainwashed by this song, that played too many times a day on the native american channel we uplink. i had no idea what a big deal fry bread was. frybreadlove.org indeed!
marcia [email] said at 9:03 PM 05-23-2006: i had no idea it was native american, though...hm...an indian couple worked at the ice skating rink in the kitchen...but it was never served as anything other than a sugary, greasy, lovely treat to warm our cold bones. i would dig it with fresh veggies and stuff, i bet.
jake [email] said at 8:53 PM 05-24-2006: You are very kind but my permanent address cannot recieve perishables, and my apartment mailbox is vulnerable to squirrels.
brandon [email] said at 9:40 PM 05-24-2006: Too bad, I don't know if I'll ever get the urge to reach out across this great land of ours and tempt you with a spicy sausage, packed almost to the bursting in sheep's gut.
brandonA [email] said at 7:29 PM 05-25-2006: Thanks for this post. I finally am getting off my ass and found a local market with pork hearts and livers.
brandonA [email] said at 5:42 PM 05-26-2006: No sausage casing necessary - it's just balls.
Making it with whatever is available would probably keep to the heritage of the creaters of boudin, but I don't know what your results would be.
I never imagined how hard it would be to get pork livers and hearts here - in LA it was as easy as going to Winn Dixie.
Since the russians that told me they had pork liver barely spoke english and didn't really have it, I've had to place a special order with a meat distributor, so no balls for me this week...
woody [email] said at 6:45 PM 05-23-2006: If you go to the trouble of heating a pot of oil and then don't make some fresh hand-cut freedom fries and then load them up with vinegar and salt... well, an opportunity has been missed.
craig [email] said at 7:13 PM 05-23-2006: Maybe you can stop by the hospital and pick up some discarded placentas. Some of them might still be warm. There's nothing yummier than a deep fried placenta.
kate [email] said at 7:20 PM 05-25-2006: EVER since this post...i have been craving deep fried snickers and i don't even know what those things taste like.
kate [email] said at 7:42 PM 05-25-2006: wow, like snickers amazing, like ice cream snickers amazing, or like a whole new world of treats amazing? feel free to let me know what this was like because i fear having to wait until carnival season.
marcia [email] said at 8:00 PM 05-25-2006: like just a whole new way of eating snickers kind of amazing...and having breading with a melted snikcers inside just rocks. there's a white trash meal my aunt in tennessee used to make that involved fried dough with cheap melted chocolate in the middle. completely addictive.
katie [email] said at 7:53 PM 05-25-2006: softshell crabs
apple quarters (cut out the cores)
plantains
eggplant
oysters, wrapped in bacon if you really like good stuff
cherry tomatoes, no batter required
frog legs
waffle batter
marcia [email] said at 8:02 PM 05-25-2006: unfortunately we were not able to have any of this stuff. they had sweet potatoes but they took too long to make, so they scrapped that idea.
