Bringing back the food thread..

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

I looked for it but couldn't find it.

Anyway, Fall is coming to the Northern Hemisphere and its time to start thinking about something besides the grill.

Get yer beans on!



Cajun spices are good but sometimes you really need to find some Soul Food spices (aka: The I-tis) for your greens. "Beef Bacon" sounds a lot like Tallow and sometimes nothing can replace Bacon like Bacon.

I need to find a good recipe for Hush Puppies.

I like green beans with savory and bacon, or beans in bacon coat, with potatoes and lamb in minty-minty peppermint sauce.


Lamb is a very healthy meat, becasue sheep normally are always held on trhe greass, are pastured. That means much less Omega-6 and more Omega 3, compared to animal meat and animal fats from feeding with corn, soy and the likes. - Thats GOOD!

[mapuc]

If you remove the peppermint sauce then I would eat it.

Someone mentioned bacon
Have anyone of you tried this Bacon Explosion ?

Markus

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by mapuc

If you remove the peppermint sauce then I would eat it.

You want especially that sauce! People kill for it.

[ET2SN]

Why is it that you two can always scatter one my threads with ONE post?






Actually, I want to start messing around with a recipe for Hush Puppies. More like a variation, I want to start with a basic 50/50 mix of corn meal and corn flower with baking powder and some herbs and maybe some bacon crumbles thrown in.

The twist is that I want to borrow from the process of making Bagels and heat a pot of water to boiling while heating up some cooking oil. Once the water is boiling, I plan to add a tea spoon of salt and a table spoon of sugar to the water. For the batter, I want something a little stiffer than pan cake batter but not much thicker.

I plan to (tea) spoon the batter into the pot of water. It should sink and start to cook. When the dough is cooked enough to make the baking powder active, they should then float to the surface. After that, allow to dry off on some paper towel and chuck them into the hot oil and deep fry until golden brown.

[em2nought]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

Actually, I want to start messing around with a recipe for Hush Puppies.

Sweet jalapeno hush puppies would be interesting, I know that's the way I like my cornbread so...

Sweet Thai Chili would make for some interesting hush puppies too.

[Jimbuna]

Curry is KING

[Commander Wallace]

Actually, ET2SN, the Hush puppies recipe isn't too hard. Try this on for size.

Ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup milk
• 1 egg
• 1⁄2 cup cornmeal
• 1⁄4 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1 teaspoon onion powder

Directions

Combine dry ingredients.

• Add egg and milk.
• Stir well.
• Should be the consistency of bread batter.
• If too thin add more corn meal or flour.
• Drop by teaspoonful into hot grease.
• Cook until brown.

I hope this helps. I get the feeling you already know this recipe and working on variations of it.


~ Enjoy ~

[mapuc]

I'm from Europe we measure in Milliliter or deciliter.

How many milliliter is 1/4 cup ??

1/2 Cup ?

Markus

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

Actually, ET2SN, the Hush puppies recipe isn't too hard. Try this on for size.

Ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup milk
• 1 egg
• 1⁄2 cup cornmeal
• 1⁄4 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon garlic salt
• 1 teaspoon onion powder

Directions

Combine dry ingredients.

• Add egg and milk.
• Stir well.
• Should be the consistency of bread batter.
• If too thin add more corn meal or flour.
• Drop by teaspoonful into hot grease.
• Cook until brown.

I hope this helps. I get the feeling you already know this recipe and working on variations of it.


~ Enjoy ~

Hush puppies are new to me, but this video helped me to get an idea what it is about. She takes bottermilk, cayenne pepper instead of garlic, the rest is pretty much like what you say. Persoanlly, i would take coconut oil, not seed oil. (If heated, coconut oil does not taste or smell of coconut, but is neutral). In the end she says that in the US these are often served to fish. True?

[ET2SN]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

I hope this helps. I get the feeling you already know this recipe and working on variations of it.


~ Enjoy ~

Yeah, what I'm kicking around is a variation of the basic cooking process rather than changing the ingredients.

I'm thinking of something like a deep fried dumpling but made with corn meal.

Real home made hushpuppies, even if fried in lard, tend to be really good but very dry and "abrasive".

And yeah, I started cooking when I was 9 years old and my parents owned a large restaurant in the Poconos of Pa.

BTW, they are traditionally served with deep fried catfish.

And, Sky and Marcus can derail my threads as they see fit, its all good.

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by ET2SN

Why is it that you two can always scatter one my threads with ONE post?

20+ years of practice make mastery!