2nd Annual MLK Day Fry-
January 19, 2009
There is very little more fun that experimenting with cooking processes and different
foods so… Once again we are having a non-
Because three or four different people typed while we were frying the transcript makes no sense so what I am going to do is use my words to describe the cooking and I will add in some of the transcript for color.
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Here We Go!
The Lineup:
Frozen Precooked Waffles
Cream Cheese and Sausage Breakfast Rolls
Meatballs
Costa Rican Red Bananas
Blue Cheese Sticks
Fresh Pork Belly
Large Soft Pretzel
Pork Ribs
Sage and Rosemary
White Chocolate Macadamia Nut Cookie Dough
Before we start serge says, “This looks professional”
I reply, “It’s not.”
Waffles:
I put the waffles in and they float almost like donuts. They also look as if they are just soaking up the oil and not really frying. I immediately think and say, “This is going to be gross.” Because they float you actually have to flip them like a donut as well. They actually brown up nicely and when they are brown I pull them and let them sit on some paper towels to drain. Once they are cool, we cut them and try them, and I have to say I liked them. They tasted a bit like funnel cake and if you sprinkled some powdered sugar on to they would be a great dessert or addition to a dessert!
Transcript:
“Whoever said that is wrong. These are fucking delicious. Delicious like fried things are always delicious.”
“Not going to lie… waffles really good. Just finished my 3rd.”
Sausage and Cream Cheese Rolls:
Casey made these by hand. She precooked the sausage and mixed it with cream cheese and wrapped them in rolled out Pillsbury crescent rolls. We dropped one in the oil and I was immediately a bit skeptical. They really didn’t bubble up and all. They just sank. But they did turn brown and when they were nicely browned we pulled the roll out. Cut the brown tube six ways and passed it around… wow. They were fantastic! They were so good we cooked all 4 she made even though it was way too much food and not a drop of cream cheese was left.
Transcript:
“Next: Sausage Rolls! Casey Charles Original Cream cheese & Breakfast sausage.”
“Ok sausage rolls: not good. Stay away. Wait. Awesome. So good. I Want a beer so bad it stings my ears.” – I am guessing this was Dave.
“Serge lives in Chicago, and hasn’t seen the sun in years. Months actually. Its less than 0 up there. Its gorgeous here. Sucker.”
Kai: Serge, so wait do you work at Pride?
Serge: No, I’m a consultant
Robert: Oh, so you actually make money. (Zing!)
Meatballs Coated in Bread Crumbs:
We dropped three of these bad boys in the oil and they bubbled up. Everything was
looking good! They browned fast
and when they looked done we pulled them out and
cut it down the middle. The middle was totally raw but the mozzarella was melted.
So we put the two uncut meatballs back in. Kai tried to get us to use the batter
like “Spackle to seal the cheese in” but we didn’t listen and make fun of Kai for
trying to spackle our food. It turns out that large meatballs like we got have to
be cooked to char till they are cooked through. And while once they are cooked and
dipped in vodka sauce they are good your time is probably better spent frying other
things and cooking the meatballs in the oven.
Transcript:
“Second basket with sausage rolls: pre-
“Batter = spacle? I don’t’ know. Spell it like it sounds “Joey-
Spackle is spelled “Joeyisadouch”
“Meatballs: once you fry the shit out of them its all good. And dip in the vodka sauce. Yum.”
“Awful scribing. Where is adam? What a dick. Casey brought vodka sauce to dip
our balls in. write that down.”
Kai: wants to use batter to fix normal household
items.
Red Costa Rican Bananas:
Fried bananas are a bit clichéd so I saw these bed bananas and thought, “why the efff not?” They felt more like tiny plantains though so I was hoping for great things. We beer battered them and dropped them in. they fried up nice and when we pulled them out tried them I was royally disappointed… They tasted just like fried bananas. But if you are doing a dish that could use a tiny fried banana they could be of great use.
Transcript:
“Joey wants blue cheese sticks. Robert is being fooled by banana.” – What?
“This tastes like paper mache.”
“When has kai eaten paper mache?“
Blue cheese Sticks:
Everyone has had fried cheese sticks but who has had fried BLUE cheese sticks??? Well not us so we got some blue cheese and fashioned it into sticks and once again beer battered them. When we first tasted them they were good but not great then Dave ran inside and grabbed the honey. He drizzled honey over the outside of the batter and those little cheese sticks went from good to great!
Transcript:
Prediction: Blue cheese sticks are an awefuld idea
Result: I was wrong, but it needs honey.
Fresh Pork Belly:
Well when I went to the farmers Market to buy pork belly for braised fresh bacon I bought way too much so I had some left over. So what do we do at PIIYF? We cut it into cubes and fry the balls off of it! Unfortunately the pork belly was a little too fatty and each cube was mostly fat. So the meat would shrink up and fry to deliciousness but the fat was overwhelming. I just don’t like foods that are that fatty. Some liked it more than me though but I can’t imagine how it would be useful in an actual cooking application
Transcript:
“Prediction: Pork belly will be good… its good. I was right. I’m always right.”
“It is gorgeous out here. I want more sausage rolls. That’s what she said. Kai puts honey and maple syrup on everything. Especially chicks. That’s what he said. He’s Elf without the personality. Ok, How the hell does adam do this?”
Giant Soft Pretzel:
Not sure why I wanted to fry this… but I did. We tossed it in the oil and nothing happened. No bubbling, no browning, no nothing. As a completely inexperience fry guy I can tell you this is a bad sign. A very bad sign. And it brought me back to thoughts of last year’s whole hot dog. When we tried it the pretzel really wasn’t that bad but like the meatball stick to the conventional cooking method.
Transcript:
“Pappys in high school. Best fried mushrooms. The new Alamo sucks. No kidding.”
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“David sucks as a scriber, so I’m taking over scribing duties. Possibly in German. Guess who suckers!” –Guessing Kai here
“Casey likes to poke stuff. Many sexual jokes went through my head there, more through Joey’s, but we both decided to let it go. “
“Soaked fat pretzel is ok. Dave likes it b/c he likes to soak stuff in fat. It’s a reverse diet.”
Pork Ribs:
The Schwarz a while back told me that fried pork ribs were “amazing.” So this year we gave them a whirl in remembrance of our Austin friend. I cut them into double rib sections and lowered them in the basket. They must have still had some water on them because the oil went crazy. Once we pulled them out we cut one of the thinner ribs and it was perfect then cut a thicker rib and it was a little under done so we threw the thick ones back in for little while longer. Once they were all done we sprinkled with salt and pepper and chomped away. The consensus was that the Schwarz was dead on. The fried pork fat was moist and not chewy with really great pork flavor. This is one I would definitely recommend to any one with a gallon of peanut oil and a rack of ribs.
Transcript:
“Fried ribs still cooking. Ribs pulling off the bone.”
“Ribs are f’ing amazing. W/ sea salt and pepper.”
“Dave is trying to bribe his consultant to cancel the rest of the day. I think
that’s an SEC violation. Dave is also in violation of insider frying. Yeah, it
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Miscellaneous:
Ok this is where things start going a little crazy because all we really have left is the cookie dough and we are saving that for dessert! So we basically fry everything that didn’t make it in with the original run. We also fry the herbs here (Sage rosemary and oregano), which all turned out amazing except the oregano which blew up everywhere and all over Casey’s pants. But hey if you want to make a fried omelet you have to crack some eggs.
Here is the transcript of it (shockingly it almost makes sense.)
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Cookie Dough
Ok, I want to first say we tried this last year and it was a terrible failure. But, we must have learned something because the turned out way better this year. Joey brought a tub of white chocolate macadamia nut cookie dough and made 5 quenelles. What is a quenelle? It just mean he used two spoons to make an oval shape out of it. We dipped the cookie dough into the beer batter and fried. Holly balls they were good! Maybe the best cookies I have ever had… Maybe.
Transcript:
“Cookie dough time! Dave said he likes small balls. Of cookie dough.”
“Dave has grown weak in his advanced age and asks consultant to get him some lettuce. Probably will be charged $500 for said lettuce. “
“Fried stuff fills you up fast.“
“Cookie dough is AWESOME!!! White chocolate macadamia nut to be exact. “
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