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Post by ozark on Jun 25, 2007 20:01:53 GMT -5
In the south hush puppies are considered normal fare with fish. Especially catfish which are now farm raised and served in Catfish houses doing a booming business. Hush puppies are seasoned and doctored up to individual taste and preference. Recipe:
Two cups corn meal (white or yellow) One cup flour One egg Diced onion Salt and black pepper to taste Buttermilk to mix above to a consistency that can be spooned into a continer of hot peanut or sunflower oil.
With oil hot spoon lumps about about the size of ping pong balls into oil and cook until a dark golden brown. Canned corn, jalopena peppers can be added if desired. A bit of experimenting will create a puppy that you can call you own favorite. If meal and flour is not self rising then soda and baking powder should be added.
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Post by RAF on Jun 25, 2007 22:01:32 GMT -5
Thanks Ozark. I'm going to pick up the fixinings and try it, likely at the lake next week. Will have more fresh fish to go with it
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Post by rossman40 on Jun 25, 2007 23:41:51 GMT -5
I was raised on catfish when at my mom's parents. Channel cat beats the farm raised stuff but with a lot of the pollution your almost afraid to eat the wild stuff around here.
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Post by ozark on Jun 26, 2007 11:11:43 GMT -5
Channel Cat raised in a spring fed pond is hard to beat if prepared right. Fried potatoes, hushpuppies, and a couple slices of sweet Vadalia onion makes the golden brown fillets slide down pretty easy. Yeah, a tall glass of sweet ice tea please.
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Post by E.T. on Jun 26, 2007 11:54:18 GMT -5
Ozark
Thanks for sharing that recipe. I have never had the good fortune of visiting the Southern States but when I do travel out of my location for companies I have always enjoyed sampling popular local cuisine. I may be deprived of visiting certain locations but now it appears I won’t be deprived of trying a new dish.
Whenever opportunities allow me to take command of a kitchen I enjoy preparing wild game dishes. Some of the side dishes are also fun to make like homemade whole-wheat egg noodles for example or mushrooms sautéed with onions, peppers and sour-cream. Now with a little creativeness I see a possibility of dumpling puppies emerging. Guess I better make plans for commandeering the kitchen for a Sunday afternoon in the near future. Again thanks for opening a new horizon.
Ed
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Post by RAF on Jul 6, 2007 10:51:57 GMT -5
Ozark, last night I made your recipe. Now understand that hush puppies are new to me. They were OK but nothing to get exited about(sorry) Let me say that there are probably some dishes I grew up with that I can't get enough of and your opinion would like be different. Just a matter of what you grew up with.
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Post by ozark on Aug 9, 2007 16:06:03 GMT -5
I agree RAF. Back when I was a child most any food was special and back then things were not cooked in oil. It was cooked in Poly saturated pig oil rendered at home or bought in gallon buckets sold as Pure Lard.
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Post by mike3132 on Aug 10, 2007 0:05:03 GMT -5
Some of the best catfish I ever ate was at Sue & Charlie's Fish House in Kentucky. It was on the west side of Kentucky Lake about midway. This was in the early 80's. I often wonder if they are still in business. mike
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Post by rossman40 on Aug 10, 2007 8:47:14 GMT -5
You guys are just making me hungry and remembering good times with family. I must admit a couple of weeks ago we went to Crackerbarrel and I did order the catfish.
Times do change, Ozarks remark about lard reminded me of that. It was lard on the farm and after we moved to the city it was Crisco, poly-unsaturated and transfats were not in the dictionary back then.
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Post by RAF on Aug 11, 2007 8:58:59 GMT -5
Yup, food used to taste better in the old days and by todays standard, they were very bad for us but we're still here. Maybe we were more active back then and we burned off all those bad things.
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Post by mike3132 on Aug 11, 2007 22:34:26 GMT -5
Those were the days before we invented the word "cholesterol"! mike
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Post by ozark on Aug 11, 2007 23:09:53 GMT -5
I am just getting over a bout with the gout. It took up residence in if left big toe and they gave me some pain pills that helped a little but I had to get off red meat and fried foods and drink cherry juice. I like steaks and fried foods but Mr. gout will get you to make what ever changes helps. Its nearly well and I am thinking of visiting a nice steakhouse. A Meduum rare Sirloin weighing about 12 ounces shouldn't bothe anything. If it does I will try doe meat.
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Post by RAF on Aug 13, 2007 16:16:04 GMT -5
::)I sure hope you put something in that to improve the flavour and take your mind off the meat you can't have
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