Friday, October 1, 2010

Rain. Raein.

Today was pretty ugly outside and the garage we rent out leaks a TON from the ceiling. So all i could really do is move the bikes around to avoid the oncoming flood. I did start the yamaha and she kicked right over.

I instead got a ticket for rolling through a stop sign, so I'm a hundred bucks further from getting a big motorcycle.

upside-Made the best fish and chips ever...

It was just feeding me and sean so we just bought two catfish filets, two russets and two red potatoes. We tried to cut them into planks but we were only working with butterknives. it was retarded and i blame sean completely for having a worthless kitchen (but a new gas stove which was cranked up to like 4-5 hundo at the time to get real hot with the pan in). We wound up with completely non uniform potato chunks (sean), but four was definately WAY too many potatoes.

cover them in some olive oil , coarse black peppa some salt and a handful of rosemary. be pretty liberal with all of them but i mean, don't go crazy. spread em thighs on the pan, listen to that awesome crackle and sizzle. throw it in, leave the oven light on and watch it. DON'T open the stove like that idiot sean.

oh, this whole time your filets should have been soaking in milk. (butter milk? coconut milk? malk? nah we just used regular milk and it was still pretty damn good)
beat some eggs in one dish, make a spice rub (garlic powder, salt, pepper, minced garlic and a tea or tablespoon of cumin i dunno i didn't measure it)  in another and then figure something for the breading(we used flour and panko crumbs).
Fill the cast iron with enough peanut oil (this is actually kind of specific due to the high smoke temperature....SCIECNE!)
when the oil gets hot enough, pull out your kitchen thermometer and make sure its at 375, just kidding. just throw some flour in and see if it fries thoroughly within a few seconds.
 dip a piece of fish into the egg, then the spice then the flour/breadcrumb then drop it in the oil. hot oil.
lift up a cutlet and if its a little more than tan then flip it. I fit about five each batch, but im poor and had to steal my moms cast iron skillet from her.
when its done, throw it in a collander to let the oil out. your potatoes are probably done. they need a tiny bit more salt and peppa. throw everything together and hit it with half a lemon and some vinegar. serve with water and basket case because you have to go to work in like fifteen minutes.

1 comment:

  1. gotta thank good ol' poppa yokes for that oil-testing trick. thanks mr. bill what would we do without ya?

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