OK, OK! I know fried
food is bad for you. Especially
me, with my alleged cholesterol problem and all. But there’s a maxim I
heard somewhere:
“Eat as much junk food
as you like, so long as you make it yourself”
...the idea being that whatever you do, you can never make food as bad for you as the processed
food industry would (who notoriously throw in things like corn syrup, emulsifiers,
cancer causing flavourings and the like).
I saw an article
in the newspaper recently for onion rings, where someone used beer batter, chilled in a fridge to
make it like tempura, and was inspired since I had a stack of red
onions kicking around with nothing to do.
Not being able to find the fabled recipe from the paper, I scanned
the net and found this recipe (presented here with my own variations) which is MUCH SIMPLER. While making these I was taken
back to other American classics I’d made like Kit’s Fried Chicken (What? No recipe for that in this blog? I’ll remedy that soon).
This recipe may not be
for people watching their weight, but were so delicious and
simple (and as American as rock 'n' roll), I just had to let you know.
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