GeorgiaThis week was my week. And with Balloon Fiesta starting today I thought it would be fun to celebrate with fair, festival, carnival, or circus food. If you've ever looked for recipes for fair food you'll find that 99.9% is fried.. Just look at the recipes below. Anyhow I decided on Fried Cinnamon Apple Rings. I convinced myself that because it had apples it was kinda healthy. Easy to make and oh so yummy. Click below for recipe. Fried Cinnamon Apple Rings NikitaFair food = Fried food. My experience at state fairs regarding food has usually been fried everything - oreos, corn dogs, funnel cakes, cheesecake and more. The fam and I started to talk about all of the weird foods you find at a fair, and that lead us to hotdogs. Not just any hotdog.... Vietnamese dogs. Side note: Shaggy is alive and well, guys. ;-) This dog is topped with Homemade Pickled Cukes, Carrots, & Daikon Radishes along with Cilantro, Mint, & Sriracha Mayo - a little sweet and a little spicy. I added in another dog topped with French Onion Dip, Salty Crushed Potato Chips, & Green Onions. All served in good ol' tin foil just like you would get at the fair. Recipe is pretty simple because you just top the dog. Here's how I pickled the veggies: click below for recipe Pickled Veggies AmyA day in which everything goes wrong. That sums up my experience with this weeks food challenge. I do not feel compelled to share the details with. However, I'd like to point out that I didn't give up. I suppose that says SOMETHING about me. But I digress. My sis picked out fair food instead of Fall food. That's because Fall really hasn't begun in my fair (get it) state of Oklahoma. This week temps will drop into the 40's and 50's at night. Woo hoo! Again, I digress. Over the Summer I almost went with fair food as a challenge but felt the time wasn't right. The Oklahoma State Fair did kick off last week...so...perfect timing. And I had almost suggested fair food several weeks back because I apparently own a cookbook entitled Country Fair Cookbook. It was published in 1975 by the editors of Farm Journal. Who knew? This isn't a collection of recipes for cotton candy or corn dogs. It's blue ribbon winning recipes from across the country. I scanned the cookbook and found a recipe that I believe not only fits the fair food bill but the Fall food bill as well. As I said, the book was published in 1975 but I decided to give this recipe a bit of a 2016 makeover. Fair food is not healthy in the least and I see no reason to attempt a healthy recipe. It's supposed to be fun and a treat not a staple in any diet. So I don't feel guilty for amping this up with bacon! As I said, all hell broke loose in my kitchen today. These may not look ascetically pleasing but they are tasty! Without further ado.... Maple Frosted Doughnuts (The text informs us that an Oregon woman developed this recipe with her husband.) Click the link below for recipe Maple Frosted Donuts Angie & AnniSooo..... I just want to say thank you to whoever it was that picked the circus food this week!!!! We made deep-fried Oreos, and it is a little hard to put into words the amazing feelings that we felt eating these things... They are definitely what my mom would call fat pills... Once you start eating them you cannot stop it is like crack cocaine for people with eating disorders..... And I loved every second of it.. We actually had to stop because we felt like it was getting dangerous... They were super easy to make we used 2 cups of pancake batter mix two eggs a cup and a half of milk and about 3 tablespoons of oil. we heated up a pan halfway full of oil until it was ready to start deep frying... Then dipped the Oreos in the batter and fried them. And we created these magical...amazing... addictive.... delicious....yummy.... did I already say amazing? I'll say it again... amazing.... little bits of heaven... Have a blessed week everyone and good luck on vegetarian week!!!! Angie M. and Annika ❤️❤️❤️ Angie CI was doing nachos but when I made them, my family dug into them before I could photograph them. Corn dogs Heat oil in fryer. I use a frydaddy but you can use a deep skillet also. Pre heat oven to 400 degrees. Mix 1 box of jiffy corn muffin mix (using a fork, break up lumps so everything is very fine), 1 egg, 1/3 cup of milk or buttermilk and about 2 tsp of honey. Make sure the batter is smooth. Adding more milk if needed. Using 1 whole package of hot dogs dry hot dogs with a paper towel cut each hot dog into 3 pieces. (I have also used little smokies). Dunk each piece into batter and drop into hot oil and rotate until golden brown. (I use a wooden kabob skewer stuck in the end of the meat to fry them and they rotate so much more smoothly) Drain on paper towels and when all the corn dogs are cooked, put them in a 400 degree oven for about 7 min. They turn out pretty good. You can also do this with smoked sausage or sausage links and dip into pancake batter. Just remember the pancake batter and the jiffy corn mix have sugar in them so they will brown pretty quick in the oil. Thats why I finish them off in the oven. So that they arent raw in the middle. I also cook them one at a time so they dont over cook Enjoy your weekend, Georgia, Nikita, Amy, Anni & Angie M and Angie C
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