One step closer to a heart-attack

My housemates have been wanting to deep fry foods for quite some time now and I have been very resistant, partly because I don't really want to deep fry food and also because I am scared to heat that much oil up on the stove top, seeing as how our stove is an evil beast. But, to mark a milestone I finally broke down and purchased the DeLonghi Dual Zone 4-Liter Deep Fryer and we spent the next three days preparing a whole host of deep-fried delights.

The boys wanted to deep fry Twinkies, they even went as far as to purchase the supposedly-delicious snack cakes, but they did not end up in the fryer.

Mostly we made dinner-type foods: Fried Chicken, Fish & Chips and Catfish Nuggets. Then to round out our deep fryer experience I made doughnuts, or actually, beignets.


They turned out pretty good. I'm actually not a fan of doughnuts but these were far enough away from the cake doughnut variety that we got along great.

I used the Costas French Market Doughnuts recipe from Allrecipes.com.

Next time I will probably make the edges a bit more rounded. Those parts got extra crispy and were a bit pokey.

Sadly, all the deep-fried-fun made the house smelled greasy for about a week. It may be awhile before we have another frystravaganza.

In other news, this crazy house was just finished a few blocks from the house and put on the market for $912K.


Sort of an interesting project, though I'm not so sure about the price tag.

One thing that I don't like is that the front windows are opening onto a pretty busy arterial. (Yes, the same street that we live on now, but we are set up above the street and much further back.) This particular project would maybe work better in a location a bit more off the beaten path, by even 5 or 6 blocks.

That being said, it's interesting, and way better than some of the things that have been built over the past few years. I'm all for good design. I just wish it were more affordable.