Fryday 2008

Results from the second annual Fryday
which actually spanned into Saturday


Scotch Eggs - "Greeeeat Success!"
-more photos to be posted on the regular site as time progresses-

Friars In Attendance:
me
Brother Mike
Brother James
Chris

Fryday Night's Frying:
TACOS DORADOS - success!
- beef cooked with onion and spices wrapped with cheddar and Sriracha hot sauce in flour tortillas then fried
- totally delicious, crispy on the outside, chewy on the inside, and they looked spectacular

TEXAS BACON HOLD'EM FINGERS - success!
- boneless chicken breast strips wrapped in bacon then double breadcrumbed and fried
- delicious crispness and teeming with bacon flavor

RICE ENCRUSTED WASABI MUSTARD MEATBALLS - failure!
- partially cooked beef wasabi mustard meatballs coated in cooked rice and fried
- rice was too crunchy and meatballs fell apart

MUMMSIE'S PEANUT BUTTER COOKIES - failure!
- Mom had James bring up some peanut butter cookies and said we were not to fry them so naturally we had to
- absorbed the cooking oil and fell apart, gross

DEEP FRIED CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH - failure!
- Hannaford's brand cookie dough tossed in the fryer, no breading or battering
- mostly melted/dissolved, not even really possible to try

PLANTAIN CHIPS - success!
- somewhat thinly sliced plantains fried and salted
- somewhat crispy, nice flavor, we also successfully had this on Fryday 2007

DEEP FRIED ICE CREAM - success!
- vanilla ice cream with several graham cracker crusting layers fried
- the inner ice cream held up while the crust was nicely crisped in the oil

SOFT FRIED EGG - take it or leave it...
- whole egg (shelled and all) dropped into the hot oil
- ended up with a poached egg, which is cool if you're into that sort of thing

Saturday Morning's Frying:
SCOTTISH EGGS - success!
- hard boiled eggs wrapped in sausage breaded and fried
- these were an absolute show stopped / heart stopper, probably one of the worst things you could do to your body is eat these, but they were outstanding

SPECIALTY STUFFED JALAPENO POPPERS - success!
- fresh jalapeños stuffed with mozzarella, cream cheese, scallions, and bacon then doubled breaded and fried
- delicious filling and nice crispiness from the peppers and crust, some peppers were much spicier than others

FRIED CORN ON THE COB - take it or leave it...
- corn on the cob, shucked and cut into manageable chunks then fried
- cooked the corn well enough, but there's no real benefit from cooking it this way

Saturday Lunch Frying:
CORNDOG ANIMALS! - success!
- cut up hotdogs with cornmeal batter deep fried with kabob protrusions
- tasted like corndogs, but in strange animal/depth charge/Sputnik shapes due to the kabob protrusions inserted to keep the dogs from settling on the bottom of the fry pot

FRIED GRAPES - take it or leave it...
- cluster of red grapes breaded and fried
- hot, sweet, juicy, and crispy, it was worth a shot but probably won't be repeated