Fried green beans with wasabi ranch. Otherwise - fried ice cream. I'm currently eating Brussels sprouts, bleu cheese and hummus. The idea of fried anything sounds gross...for the moment.
Crawfish are like $9 a pound here. This makes me angry. One of the best thing in the world is Crawfish Etoufee. You make a roux of half fat and half flour, stir it until it turns red-brown and takes on a nutty flavor. Get some smoked sausage, brown each piece in cast iron, save the chunks for later. Saute green pepper, onion, celery, garlic in the sausage fat, deglaze with fish stock so rich and orange it's almost a solid, add the roux and sausage and salt and pepper and creole seasoning until it melds together. Throw in some seasoned crawfish. Ladle that over rice. Holy fuck I'm hard. Also that brain goo is excellent in stock. Fried stuff doesn't interest me so much anymore. A simple fry, done right, is sublime. Some good chicken. A latke. Man, if you aren't doing latkes (fried potatoes and onion), you are wasting your life. But goddammit if I won't kick a fatty in the fupa to get the last fried Snickers. We drop a ton of those on a war zone, we instantly pacify everyone. Or get them so fat we can take over with barely a sweaty, heart diseased casualty. Also: waiting for fried mayonnaise. It's only a matter of time.
Reminds me of this old hit, probably the most popular song of that year from what I remember at school: Spoiler ...It was an interesting diversion from the rest of the god-awful vocal techno garbage that was all over the place.
Chicken and Waffles? Nope, no thanks. I don't really like waffles. It's like they can't decide if they're pancakes or french toast and are instead some unholy cross breed. Chicken and Dumplings? Yes. Dumplings aren't very different from waffles. I have no idea why I feel so strongly that waffles are evil, but dumplings are awesome. It makes no sense to me either. Fried Pickles? Eh. Regular pickles (especially homemade) are fantastic. Fried Kool Aid? Fuck off. Minnesota? Fuck off. I lived in Wisconsin. That place sucked. I was there for six years. As far as I'm concerned, you could nuke everything west of Pittsburgh and I wouldn't care. I have no issue with getting the people out first. It's not the people that irritate me (in fact, I did meet a lot of great ones) it's just as far as climates go, Minnesota is why Global Warming was invented. Unfortunately, it's too slow. Time to speed that shit up. Florida? I've been there several times. Each time I promise myself it's the last. Sure, the women are hot, but it's not like they're going to fuck me, so who cares. I'm sure I'll end up there again. And promise I'll never go back. Again. Chinese Bluegrass? Fuck off. I don't even like American Bluegrass. Crawfish: Ewww. Just, fucking ewww. Yes, I've had them. No, I won't have them again. Ok, I'm up to date.
At the same fair last year I was given a piece of deep fried bacon dipped in dark chocolate on a stick. It tasted like diabetes and heart disease. On a stick. I ate that son of a bitch and declared it better than sex. Was it because I wanted the boyfriend to see it as a challenge and attempt to reclaim the throne? I'll never tell.
1. Fried pickles are amazing. I never even associated them with the south. 2. kosher dill makes hot n spicy pickles which are quite tasty. I want to try frying them, but I feel pan frying on an electric cooktop would be a disappointment. And I'm afraid to get a deep fryer, cause I would fry everything. Oh, this chicken and broccoli looks like a nice healthy meal. Know what would make it better? If it was deep fried. Then again, I really don't see much of an upside to living past 40 so maybe it wouldn't be so bad after all
I'm reading "And The Mountains Echoed" by Kohaled Hosseini. I haven't been so goddamn depressed in a while. By the end I plan to be chewing antidepressants like tictacs. If you ever feel like toeing a shotgun trigger, do read "A Thousand Splendid Suns." Reclaim what throne? The toilet? Contrary to popular belief a human ass can scorch porcelain. What? Heating oil is heating oil. It doesn't realize if you're using gas, electric, or a fryer. Wtf? You don't need more than about an inch in a sturdy pan/pot to fry some pickles. Or most other things. Invest in a cast iron pan.
I love cast iron pans. I don't have the patience to pre heat them to use on electric cook tops though. And abhor the heat control of electric anyway.
Oh bullshit. How do you think a deep fryer works? You plug it in. It is electric. If you cook enough, you figure out the temp controls. In general, unless you're boiling water, you don't need to ever crank it to high. Not frying because you don't own a deep fryer is a cop out. All you need is a pan, vegetable oil, and a metal slotted spoon.
Chicken and waffles are just meh to me. I like them both on their own, together they are underwhelming. When I do have waffles, they have to be nice and crispy on the outside. No goddamn floppy waffles for me. Same thing when I get hash browns at waffle house. I want it to be nice and crusty. My favorite way to eat grits as a side dish is to flavor it with butter, salt and pepper, and then use toast points to scoop it up. Kind of like breakfast chips and dip. I haven't had shrimp and grits as an entree because I haven't happened to have been at a restaurant that has it on the menu...but there is a food truck here that makes shrimp and grits tacos that make me weep with pleasure. I'm surprised I can even talk about food. Took my daughter out for her birthday dinner at Red Robin. I decided to try the patty melt. It was delicious and so were the fries, but jesus christ it has been almost 5 hours and it is still a lump in my stomach.
+1 on the etouffe. I will do you one better with a nice rich courtboullion. Pronounced koo-bee-yon. Its like a more rich etouffe but brown and has wine in it. Put a bunch of crawfish, shrimp and some crab meat. Serve over rice. Have erection.
If you're reduced to guzzling bacon in an attempt to get your partner to perform better in bed, something might have gone awry.
So, mixed drinks in clubs here are around $10. Cocktails are between $18 and $22. I earn a decent wage, but a big night out can hurt me. I've just been given a $200 bar card, to go with the $100 I already have, but I can't find a single person willing to travel for 30 whole minutes to get to an excellent cocktail bar within a club for free drinks. Don't ever get old people, it becomes tragic.