Frizzled Onions

Here's one of those perfect "Things I Do for Food" moments, and yes it does have to do with frizzled onions. Thankfully, it's not something stupid like going through two frying sessions to make them, the first where I burn down the house and the next I make them successfully. When it comes to frying, I have the ever so helpful "FRYDADDY" which is completely electric so I don't have to worry about explosions or anything like that. So let me begin my story.

Here I am back at the East End beach house watching The Food Network because I just got here and I want to relax, and I normally don't like the cooking shows that they have during the day, I mostly watch the stuff that The Food Network has at night such as "Chopped" and "Iron Chef America." However under the unusual circumstances that there was nothing good on any of the other channels that I watch, I got stuck watching the end of one of Ina Garten's cooking shows. After that show ended, "Down Home with the Neely's" came on and as they usually do, they were making Southern food, which is some of my favorite, let me add.

They were going through some extraneous recipe to make these hamburgers (which is something that I would do), however, in the process of making their marinade and what not, they began to fry up some frizzled onions, which always catches my attention. Watching them do this, I'm thinking to myself, I haven't had frizzled onions since I gorged myself with that burger at the Brooklyn Diner outside of Carnegie Hall.

From there, I began to briefly research places for dinner in the area that would serve up frizzled onions with some sort of beef dish. Low and behold, I managed to find out that the Sound View Restaurant in Southold has a flat iron steak with frizzled onions. So, we took the half hour drive over to the restaurant just to get the onions and I tried to get my mother to get them as a side so I could pick off of her as well, but that had no luck.

I have to say that just going for the onions, I had a very good steak too, it was cooked perfectly and it was a good cut of beef. I also managed to have really good fried calamari (not the best, the best was at Jean-Georges, though that's another story worth telling) and a nice chocolate cake for dessert. So all and all, not wasted efforts for the one side dish (or topping depending on how you look at it), but a good meal in general.