Chicken Fried Anything.

Generally from my love of doughnuts, one might expect that I have a fancy for fried food, particularly chicken fried. Now if you don't know what "chicken fried" means, it's a southern term. Picture fried chicken, now that method of frying with a batter to make the chicken crispy is applied to other foods such as steak (chicken fried steak). All of which are really good tasting, though staggeringly unhealthy. Other methods of frying have to do with taking what you have and cooking it in the hot oil.

Just for the fun of it, my mother and I took a trip out to Cutchogue again for less than a day to go to Braun's Seafood Co. and Wickham's to get doughnuts. Here's another thing that I'll do just for food. The drive is exactly 71 miles from my house just to get fish and fried dough. However, while out at Braun's, we were contemplating what would be good to have. We already have a lifetime supply of Gulf Shrimp because of the oil spill, the tuna didn't look too good today. There however were a few nice pieces of flounder there, perfect for frying.

It didn't occur to me until the drive home, though I managed to talk my mother into buying the flounder. I was thinking of all of the great fried food and BBQ that I'll be getting at Clarinet Fest in Texas and I thought of doing a fish fry. The flounder was perfect, though I didn't have fries, home fries were substituted (and are healthier since their fried in olive oil).

It was a good dinner for the trip that we took for it. Chicken-fried beer battered flounder, home fries, and a nice remoulade for the fish. The moral is, if it looks good, it can be chicken-fried, just like the flounder.