Monday, January 15, 2007

Salad for the next few weeks

Because a friend recently acquired a deep fryer, it followed that a deep fry party would happen at some point. And another friend has always wanted to have a ketchup tasting. And a lot of people had scotch, so a scotch tasting was also necessary. People even flew in from NYC for the occasion.

Stuff that was deep fried: halibut, pot stickers, avocadoes, cheese curds, bacon-wrapped shrimp, potatoes, bacon-wrapped potatoes, plaintains, and then tater tots for the ketchup tasting.

Ketchups blind taste-tested: 6
Winner: Trader Joe's organic ketchup

Scotch whiskies blind taste-tested: 8
Winners (it was a tie): Balvennie and Lagavulin (though those two were among my least favorites).

More stuff that was deep fried: Mars bars, Twix, Oreos, Mint Oreos, cookie dough, bananas.

It was awesome. Awesome, awesome, awesome. But let's just say I will not be marching at the MLK event tomorrow.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

We've had a deep fryer for years and have been disappointingly unadventurous with it.

But it's awesome for fries, shrimp, or anything breaded.

Xtina said...

i've had a deep fried twinkie. which was awesome for the first half and then made me feel like puking.

but deep fried bacon-wrapped shrimp? mail me some.

Rainster said...

Deep-fried twinkies!!!! Smacking self for not thinking of it!

Except that I've eaten exactly three in three days because of the deep-fry party....