Squirrel X's Culinary Miscellany!
buttermilk onion rings
"Make anything with love, and BAM! It's a beautiful meal."
__Emeril Lagasse
"Who could ever weary of moonlit nights and well-cooked rice?"
__Japanese proverb
"What I love about cooking is that after a hard day,
there is something comforting about the fact that
if you melt butter and add flour, then hot stock, it will get thick! It's a sure thing.
It's a sure thing in a world where nothing is sure!"
__Nora Ephron
"A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness."
__Elsa Schiaparelli
"Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work
in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent,
so is the ballet. "
__Julia Child
"Cooking is a creation."
__Piero Selvaggio
"'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
__William Shakespeare
"Cooking is like love.
It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
__Harriet Van Horne
Buttermilk Onion Rings
Ingredients:
4 large onions, cut into 1/4 inch rings
1 quart butter milk
2 cups unbleached flour
salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
chili power to taste, if desired
canola oil
Instructions:
1) Put the onion rings in a large bowl.
2) Combine buttermilk, salt, and pepper --- then pour over onion rings.
3) Cover bowl with saran wrap and refrigerate for about half an hour.
4) Put the flour in a shallow dish and season with salt and pepper
[and chili powder if desired].
5) Dredge onion rings in flour, re-dip in the buttermilk,
and again in the seasoned flour.
6) Heat canola oil to 350� in a heavy skillet and fry onion rings
in batches for 2 to 3 minutes.
7) Drain on a wire rack over a cookie sheet.
and the best of intentions for whoever wants to try 'em,
but if somethin' goes wrong, don't blame the varmint.*
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