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I can just picture her demonstrating this. "Today we're gonna make beer-batter butter. First your take the the stick of butter, then you put the butter in the batter and fry him up in the lard..." Pips had an idea for a parody of her sons' show where they travel across the country getting fatter and fatter until they look like a pair of soul-patch'd oompa-loompas.
Oh yum. When we lived in the south we used to joke about deep-fried lard delicacy all the time, but this is so much better because it's butter! I mean, really, it's like butter-enhanced jalapeno poppers without all those unnecessary peppers!
And of course you don't just eat the deep-fried butter! You need jam or cinnamon sugar or pepper jelly to go with.
A friend of mine had a recipe for deep fried sugar coated lard balls in the paper. It was a joke under his little old lady pseudomyn, but people apparently didn't think it was a joke and called in with lots of flying fat, near fire complaints.
My sisters used to get in trouble for snacking on sticks of butter when they were little. They'd just peel the paper and eat them like a banana. (Of course one of them also used to peel and eat the wallpaper. Not even snozzberry wallpaper. Just the regular kind.)
I see it says in the episode guide "and an audience request, fried butter"--so I wonder if folks who make fun (even good-naturedly) of Paula's fried-fried cuisine requested it, in the vein of "I bet Paula even has a recipe for friend butter!"
I do think they sound good, but I can't imagine eating more than one or two and you'd definitely need garnish.
oooo dear GOD! that's a sick sick turn! I am against it! You can't fry up fats in fats, that's a formula for some sort of reality tear wormhole action!
Paula Deen's sons do a little bus tour around Savannah sometimes and they showed a clip of one on Food Network. Someone asked them what Paula's favorite dessert was and the cuter one said "sour cream, fried in shortning, with melted butter on top"-clearly making fun of his mom's love for fat.
I'll be going up next month to eat at her restaurant-I can't wait :)
I've been known to fry damn near anything (by the way, Chicagoans: a Sunday Fryday at Chez Daly will be announced shortly-- check your calendars!), but this sounds a bit beyond the pale even for me. Blech.
Wow. That's not even junk food. It's anti-food. This can only mean that we are mere days away from the sugar-coated lard stick in caramel-pecan glaze.
Y'know, I spent a fair amount of my twenties livin' la vida mota; a good, nutitious breakfast would be a Dolly Madison carrot cake (for the veggie content), and lunch & dinner would come from a bag. But even in the depths of my wake-and-bake lifestyle, I don't think I would have touched a deep-fried butter ball.
I can't help but wonder: if this recipe had been called fried boursin, would it have caused such outrage? Such uproar?
Because that's basically what this is. All boursin is is half butter, half cream cheese, some herbs, and some garlic. I've certainly eaten a few breaded stuffed olive-oil-drizzled portobello mushrooms run under the broiler with boursin that are easily as fatty...and very, very tasty.
Well, I think the difference here is that with Deen's recipe, there's nothing other than breading and butter/cheese. The garlic and herbs in the boursin would make a difference, and the mushroom is going to add some flavor and some texture. It's not just biting into a hot ball of fat. They're similar dishes, yes, but not equivalent.
I think I might prepare some of these and keep them in the feezer for a while. It'll be interesting to see how long it takes for me to get drunk enough to make and eat them.
No. But I've also eaten boursin right off the spoon. Another analogue is fried cheesecake; very popular. Sure, there might be some sugar or some garlic in these other concoctions, but the flavor of good pure butter is pretty awesome. Just saying: don't knock it 'til you've tried it. People being what they are, and showing a predictable and consistent preference for fatty salty foods, chances are most folks would enjoy one. Or two.
Oh, absolutely. And I'm not trying to set myself up as some paragon of non-artery-clogging snackery, because that would be a lie.
There's just something about deep-fried fat that squicks me. I have the same aversion to the fried mozzarella sticks that people love so. I love fried food, and I love butter and cheese, but the idea of combining them in that way makes me a wee bit oogy.
I knew a girl in college (who used to run marathons and stuff, so she could get away with this -- she was rail-thin) who was never happier than when she was lazing in front of MTV with a jar of Hellmann's mayonnaise and a spoon. Damnedest thing I ever saw.
I like battered deep-fried chunks of sharp cheddar cheese with a little ranch dressing -- especially if that batter has some pepper in it. Damn, my mouth's watering just thinking of it! And here I am, with nothing in sight but healthy snacks like dried fruit...sigh. I need to look for a used tabletop fryer at the thrift store.
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