Next Friday the LTH's will be hosting our 2nd Annual "Grease Pong" at a bluegrass festival we attend each year. Grease Pong combines what we refer to as "Deep Fried Happiness" and Beer Pong; how great is that?! In a nutshell, we host a beer pong tournament and the *entry fee* is something yummy to deep fry and share with others. We use a turkey deep fryer and deep fry anything and everything. Last year, the inaugural event was a last minute addition to the schedule (about 12 hours before it kicked off), so our deep fried fare was fairly common place. This year, all bets are off!
(I'm inserting all sorts of disclaimers here now to head off the objections/preaching of nay-sayers:
1. While there will be beer consumed during Beer Pong, we are no longer drunken stupid college students and it's not the focal point of the day/game. We do enjoy beer responsibly and no one is driving/operating heavy machinery/in charge of small children/hunting w/Dick Cheney. We even offer DD's (designated drinkers, in this case) for non-drinkers to participate in the tourney.
2. Believe it or not, we are all at healthy weights and (most of us) even sport fairly advanced fitness levels. We indulge in this delectable deep fried fare in MODERATION. We don't eat like this every day.
3. We are all (sadly now, very much so) of legal drinking age.)
Now that that's out of the way, I asked the fabulous AR users who make use of the Recipe Exchange (seriously, if you are here on AR and read the blogs and use the site and haven't checked out the RE yet, you don't know what you're missing. Well, obviously you don't know what you're missing if you haven't been there, because you haven't been there so you don't know.) to help me come up with some outside the box foods to deep fry. They didn't let me down!
I took all of their suggestions into consideration and, after weeding out the pedestrian and labor intensive (have I ever mentioned I am, in fact, LAZY?), here's the list of deep fried foods the LTH's will be contributing to Grease Pong '09: (I admit, some of these aren't included for their novelty, as much as per my personal tastes. This is one of the perks of making the list and buying/prepping the food.)
*CUPCAKES! I mean, really, that's a no brainer w/me, isn't it? I love that they are FROSTED before you batter/fry them. Can't wait for these!
*Bite sized Snickers
*Oreos
*Pickles (one of my personal favorites!)
*Hush Puppies (hopefully, like Long John Silvers!)
*Fresh Mozzarella and assorted cheeses
*BACON!
*Green Beans (this makes the *meal* healthy, right?)
*Jalapeno
*Spinach
*Cookie Dough
What do YOU think? What's missing? Have you tried any of these calorie laden diet busters? Which one would YOU like to try?
What fried food make YOU happy...
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