NOW i've seen and heard it all!!!!

Carl,

very interesting.... fried butter huh?? What will they think of next If were talkin fried foods... my vote is for fried zuchini w/ ranch or bleu cheese! Yum.

 

Hand cream? LOL.

Yours,

Bill

 

Hi Jem/ I too love fried Zucchini w/ Ranch I first had some of this appetiser at a restaurant chain that we discovered about 20 or so years ago and in San Antonioo. It was called: Cattlemans. I THINK they are no longer in business but, we went there and all we ate were the appetizers-the first time around. We went back a week later and had them again but not as a meal that time ;-)) The Waitresses were all very beautiful too ;-))

Still another one I heard about just today was, take 6 slices of bacon, batter it and deep fry it for a few minutes. You eat them like you would Chicken Fingers (thats-Chicken Strips to Yankees :lol: :lol and you dip them in cream or sausage gravy However, that dish aint for the unhealthy or those who are counting calories.

Now, I like Bacon and I like gravy, but combined?? I don't now?? I WILL have to try it sometime.

 

I wish I could explain the fried Coke thing? but I don't know how to. Anyway I heard from a couple of people who tried it and they said it really was good. I would imagine its probably a lot like a Syrup mix that is fried??/ DOn't know as i've never seen a pic of it---yet ;-)

One that got to me was one that some British ex-patriot who left the old homeland and moved to New York or New Jersey-started a restaurant and he will batter and fry up anything a customer wants. Anything from a glump of Macaroni and Cheese-battered and deep fried-to-a Reeces Peanut-butter Cup, to Lord knows what else? He even takes slices of Pizza, batters them and deep fries them. I can't imaging eating something thats already mostly bread-only to have it breaded and then deep fried.

Oh and there was a place in New Jersey, that sells fried hotdogs. They had 4-5 catagories of these. Each one depended on the amount of time it spent in a deep fryer. The first couple I MIGHT have been able to stomach trying but, they get crispier and more burnt as they go-those would make me lose my lunch if I tried them.

 

Carl you're supposed to be wasted on Akevitt / Aqua Vitae when you are eating lutefisk. Besides when it is ready to be eaten it should not smell so bad.

Tell you what, come over for christmas and I'll have my gran fix you up with home made lutefisk.

 

For the sake of balance, I tried and thoroughly enjoyed a deep fried mars bar a while ago, they are really good. It was a hell of a surprise to see how the flavours go together (and somehow they do). Well worth a try.

 

This now explains everything from the big bang to the end of the world, Stefan has no taste. :lol:

 

The fried hot dog thing is pretty common actually. They don't taste much different. I want to try fried coke...just to says I have. At the Fair of St. Louis we walked around for an hour trying to find deep friend alligator sticks. The search was worth it. Yum. I don't think people who go to the fair looking for healthy foods should be going to a fair. That's the point of them.

 

Even without being "wasted" on Aqua Vitae, my Grandma Nora's Lutefisk was superb. I never did understand how it got such a bad name in the culinary circles until I went to a Sons of Norway feed in Havre Montana one time. I think it is the "making it in bulk" that ruined it. That was the nastiest stuff I ever tried to down. Looked like a grey mush, floating in buttery water, and was nearly impossible to consume. I managed to get it down just to not insult too many people, but I didn't go back for seconds!

About the only thing I recall about Granma Nora's was that she got it shipped to herself from sisters she had left behind in Bergen, and it came dried (not frozen like that in our supermarkets), and she would soak it in a brine for days to get it ready for cooking. It held together like real "fish", and had a flavor that was light and delicate for some reason. Dunking it in clarified butter just made it better. That a warm buttered lefse (I still make my own), and my Christmas dinner was a done deal until she passed away in 1966.

She was so funny, about four foot nothing and weighed many, many pounds. We used to laugh with her when she would tell us she was the same height laying down as she was standing up! One time when our local Dr. told her she had to loose some weight, she "went on a diet". Dr. Bukre put her on the scale a couple of months later and said; "Nora, you haven't lost a pound since last time you were here!" to which she replied, "I don't understand that Dr., I dieted all morning."

She was a card, made it into her eighties in spite of her weight.

 

Carl,

I'm glad to see you fancy the same app I too stumbled upon this tasty dish in San Antonio this summer... I forget the name of the restaurant but it was located on the River Walk somewhere. And yes the waitresses were beautiful too!

Jem

 

Hi Jaeger, im not a fish fan (which probably makes Ottar (my Grandfather) turn over in his grave ;-)0 However, I have never tried Reindeer and would be open to trying some of that ;-)) as well as that (forgive my memory) "Circle" Cake that is a famous Scandinavian treat and is made and sld I think? only in Minnasota here in the States ;-))

 

Hi Clint, Jem,

Clint, do you ever watch that show (I forget it's name?) that hasa bald guy who goes to different Countries trying some of the most Bizzar foods imaginable. Anyway, I watched him do one on Lutefisk, and even a gy such as he-who is used to eating some of the most wierdest things available-even he had a hard time eating it. I've never eaten it but have smelled it being made. I can't get past the smell it was so bad. ) For me to try a spoonfull of thats tuff, it would have to be totally drowned in Tartar Sauce, or Catsup, or something to mask it's odor and taste. ;-))

Jem, that's the trouble with the River Walk, everytime I go there-what was there before usually is no longer ;-) I found a great place that served up one heck of a great Bacon Cheeseburger, the next time I managed to get to the river walk-the place was long since gone and it was turned into I think, a Chinese restaurant. I like Chinese food but, when in the mood for one of the if not THE best Bacon Cheeseburgers you could ever eat-and the place is not there-it's terribly disappointing to say the least. At least that time, we found another place that served great Chicken Fried Steaks ;-))

 

Carl you have to try reindeer.. My fave meal in sweden.. And rest of you guys.. Try olive oil ice creammmm...

 

Carl,

I'm pretty sure the guy you are speaking of is Andrew Zimmern with the Travel Channel (Bizarre foods) Some of the stuff this man ingests makes my toe nails curl!

You are making me hungry by the way! A bacon cheeseburger sounds pretty epic right now.... thanks Carl

Mark

 

This now explains everything from the big bang to the end of the world, urgh has no taste. :lol:

Yes it is a copy of my other post in order on to save time and money.

 

Hi Urgh, Mark, Lord Noodles and Lou,

Urgh, based on your recommendations, I would love to try some of that sometime. Either as a "steak" or even as a stew-sounds great to me ;-))

Thanks Mark, that is the guy I was talking about. I almost stip up some water after reading about your toes curling up line ;-)) A Bacon Cheeseburger sounds great to me too, just no place near my house selling them. Today though, Im going to Los Faroles and will have a Beef, Bean, Cheese and peppers-stuffed Burrito. I ate one the other day-rather-in several sittings as this thing was so large, that it could have easily been the weight of a small Puppy, and it was so good too I just can't eat these too often for fear of gaining weight from it-but it's definately something I will eat at least twice a month from there. The rest of the time Ill stick with my Bean, Cheese, Chicken and Jalepeno half order of Nachos. ;-))

Heh heh, Lou, and here it was that I was beginning to think that talk about all of this Southern Food, was going to get you into eating some of the finers things in life, such as a Chicken Fried Steak, or Biscuits w/ Redeye Gravy

 

Raindeer is good, but I prefer deer.

 

I have seen portions of one of those shows, and all I can say is "the man goes out of his way to make the worst impression possible", like he is braving the world of culinary oddities to entertain.

My Grandma Nora used the parboiling method described here, and the nearly a week of soaking the dried cod she would get from Bergen.

Her’s looked like the photo, firm and obviously a fish, not a gray fish jello like some commercial/mass produced lutefisk dinner stuff becomes. When she was ready to make the dinner, it only took about five minutes of boiling in the cheese cloth bag she had for the lutefisk to be ready to serve. Those puny little lefses on the side wouldn't get past me, and I'm not too sure but in the background of the plate it looks like a set of potato dumplings.

Goto:

Minnesota Lutefisk recipes

And if you read that whole article you will find that the curing with soda ash has a lot to do with the "smell", as does the use of lye to "reconstitute" the cod. But, you guys who love grits shouldn't be put off by lye soaking.