Friday, November 25, 2011

Unusual Deep Fried Foods

!±8± Unusual Deep Fried Foods

Everyone loves foods that have been prepared in a deep fryer. That crispy golden outer layer and the wonderful taste are hard to resist, even with the thought of the negative nutritional value in the back of your mind. While the best fried foods usually come from restaurants it is getting easier to make delicious deep fried foods at home. And some of them can even be half-way healthy.

Frying foods in your home can be made a lot easier with the Indoor Butterball Turkey Fryer. This amazing appliance not only fries delicious turkeys but it can make an assortment of other wonderful fried foods as well. And cooking in this Electric Turkey Fryer can be somewhat healthy since you can choose an oil with no trans fats and it only requires you to use 1/3 less oil than most fryers.

Once you have your Indoor Butterball Turkey Fryer you will want to begin immediately trying different foods since the fryer cooks them in no time. While you might start with a turkey or some common foods like French fries or tater tots, there are some unusual fried foods that might be worth cooking up as well.

A staple favorite at State fairs, the Indoor Butterball Turkey Fryer could be used to make deep fried candy bars. Simply choose your favorite candy bar, freeze it then dip it in a simple batter like pancake or funnel cake batter. Place it in the Electric Turkey Fryer for a few minutes and you have an ooey-gooey treat. If you like sweet treats you may also try dipping Oreo cookies or Twinkies in the batter and frying them in the Turkey Fryer as well. Remember to be careful when cooking these delicious treats the oil in the fry is very hot and can burn you if it touches your skin. Also remember when you go to serve these deep fryer snacks they will be very hot in the inside so it is best to let them cool a bit before handing them off.

If you don't have a sweet tooth and want to try some unusual fried foods you could try fried dill pickles. Roll the pickles in a salt and flour batter, place them carefully in the basket of the Indoor Turkey Fryer and you have a crunchy, salty treat to munch. A treat of deep fried olives infused with bleu cheese or fried corn on the cob also make delicious sides to any meal.


Unusual Deep Fried Foods

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Thursday, October 13, 2011

Christmas Cookies With Natural Sweeteners

!±8± Christmas Cookies With Natural Sweeteners

Devouring sweets is tradition all through the holiday season. Rather than eat refined white sugar or high fructose corn syrup, why not try some favorite holiday treats made with natural sweeteners, such as unrefined cane sugar, honey, maple syrup, and agave?

I've found that these sweeteners taste even better than sugar or corn syrup.

Here's a basic recipe for a shortbread butter cookie that can me made into many variations. I have successfully made these using

* unrefined cane sugar (such as Sucanat or Rapadura) -- this is like brown sugar
* powdered unrefined cane sugar (sold as "organic" powedered sugar -- this is like white sugar
* agave nectar -- a good low-glycemic option
* rice syrup -- a personal favorite, subtly sweet with no extra flavor

SHORTBREAD BUTTER COOKIES

makes about 2 dozen 1-inch square cookies

3/4 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup sweetener
3/4 teaspoon vanilla
1 2/3 cups whole wheat pastry flour
small pinch of salt

1. Put butter out to soften. This could take 20-30 minutes.
2. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
3. In a mixing bowl, with a hand mixer, beat the soft butter until fluffy. This step is important to make the cookies light and crispy.
4. Add sweetener and vanilla and continue to beat until both are incorporated.
5. Add flour and salt slowly, mixing until a stiff batter is formed.
6. Put parchment paper or a silpat on the cookie sheet.
7. Flavor and cut as desired.
8. CHILL before baking. Cover the shortbread tightly with plastic wrap and refrigerate at least two hours or up to 4 days. If you don't chill, the shortbread will spread.
9. Bake for 20-30 minutes, or until lightly browned just around the edges. Thicker cookies need a little more time, very thin cookies need less.
10. Remove the cookies to cooling racks.

VARIATIONS:

* Roll out dough and use to make cutout cookies

* Add any extract and bits of nuts, citrus peel, dried fruits, coconut, chocolate chips

* Top with spices such as cinnamon sugar

* Sandwich any plain or flavored cookies together with fruit-sweetened jam, flavored cream cheese, nut butters...

* Place dough in parchment paper, roll into a cylinder, then chill and cut as refrigerator cookies. Edges can be rolled in nuts, coconut, etc.

* Add any desired ingredients and bake as bar cookies.


Christmas Cookies With Natural Sweeteners

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