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The Big E is 28 days away, and that means it s time to start looking ahead at the new sugar and batter constructions that will be available this year.
On Friday, local food media (a group that I ve now somehow stumble into becoming a member of) got a look at some of the latest experimentation with fairground foods. Or, as it s commonly known, people asking Hey, what haven t we deep fried yet?
This is the Beer A Misu , a fudge cake soaked in a craft stout beer, topped with cannoli filling and other goodies. (Don Treeger / The Republican) the context of weird fair foods, beer a misu doesn t really count. It s way too well executed and balanced to be lumped in with let s face it a social food conpatagonia wetsuit guidestruct that we as a society have bought into as a form of unhealthy culinary exhibition that serves as a stark juxtapositiopatagonia better sweater vest zapposn of the organic leanings of today s commercialpatagonia better sweater dark walnut food market.
Fair food is dumb, but awesome. Beer a misu is a dessert that I d order at a restaurant for dinner.
The tiramisu spinoff is based around idea of using beer instead of coffee to soak the cake in while nixing the idea of throwing in lady fingers. The end result doesn t stay very true to the source, which is a good thing.patagonia discount code pizza1 I highly doubt an actual tpatagonia discount code pizza0iramisu adaptation would be as good as this.
The richness is a little more dense than your standard chocolate cake. You can sense a mellow undertone of the stout beer in the chocolate flavor, but that serves as an afterthoughpatagonia corporate discountt when you take a bite. Inside, there are patagonia down sweater fullveins of chocolate pudding, and the whole thing is topped with cannoli filing and a nice chocolate drizzle. They could ve mailed it in with whipped cream on top, but the high quality sweet cream really complements the rest of the dessert.
The beer a misu is less of an actual cake than a concise trifle, with the cake, pudding and cream aspects all playing off of each other perfectly.
On a related note: Why don t more restaurants have trifle on the dessert menu? Trifles are awesome. They re just a cake ier version of parfaits. And if we learned anything from the Shrek series, it s that . The fried s more seems like it s a layup. People like s mores, and fried things, and it s far from the weirdest thing they ve tried. Yet somehow it falls flat.
Don t get me wrong. All the right flavors are here. Once you get through that layer of batter, you re greeted with a nice gooey marshmallow flavor along with the melted chocolate. However, the graham cracker doesn t hold up well, resulting in a mass of s more wreckage, which tastes really good, but has a little all over the place and eclipsed somewhat by the batter on the outside.
S mores are really good, but I m not too sure deep frying them adds much of anything.
This is an example of an experiment that gains something in translation upon the completion of its deep fried metamorphosis (plus a healthy coating of chocolate and frosting).
Inside the batter coating, which has a nice chocolate y infusion, the Oreo has gone though a change in physical states, going from a crunchy cookie to a smooth, black and white filling.
The whole thing comes together really well in an overall balanced chocolate desert. The batter isn t to heavy and none of the sweet components go on a sugar rwomens patagonia trail running shoes size 9 new in the boxampage. Unlike most fried foodpatagonia discount code pizza2s at the fair, you won t feel like death after eating one of these. Although, that s assuming you don t end up ordering nine of them.
Chicken Pot Pie with Puff Pastry
Here, a guest prepares a plate of Storrowton Tavern s Chicken Pot Pie. (Don Treeger / The Republican)Treeger spent a few months studying abroad in Ireland, where (surprise) there wasn t too much to get excited about outside a surprising amount of really good Indian food. The one thing that stuck out, though, were the meat pies.
There was was this commercial with a guy who was clearly an inept bachelor, but was making this enormous effort and trashing his kitchen in order to make a real good puff pastry for his meat pie. I tend not to take too much advice from a pair of islands that boils food as much as it does, but damn do those people take puff pastries seriously.
That s where this pot pie comes it. The filling is fine. It s pretty hard to screw up chickenpatagonia discount code pizza pot pie. What makes the different here is the presence of an honest to goodness real flaky, pull apart puff pastry. If you re making a pie with meat, you d better have a puff pastry. We play for keeps in this pot pie game, so you d best ante up with something real.
These are Eggpland Fries from Clemenza s Brick Oven Pizza Cafe. (Don Treeger / The Republican) too many people patagonia everlong review edgeliked these since they were a bit droopy and soggy, which is But I think the fries label here does a disservice to this fried eggplant thing. It s more of a onion ring made with eggplant, but not in actual ring form.
Sure, that description doesn t make much sense, but when you bite into it, you re greeted with that familiar veggie texture inside the batter that you get from an onion ring. On top of that, you don t have to worry about the stringiness of an onion, which occasionally slides out from the batter shell. You get a clean bite form the fried eggplant, which comes with a good eggplant flavor and just the right amount of saltiness.
If you like eggplant parm, you ll love this.
This is Fried Dough with Maple Syrup and Bacon. (Don Treeger / The Republican) the fried dough with maple syrup and bacon good? Oh, yes, definitely. It gets a pass among fair patagonia guide jacket jazzfood.
While it sounds great in theory, the execution of the combination is pretty tame. I heard French toast thrown around as a comparison (assuming you know how to each breakfast and work your breakfast meats into tpatagonia guide jacket 100%he party). Personally, I compared it to more of an upscale waffle taco. It s real fun to try. But on the other hand, the prospect of eating the whole thing isn t that great. The bacon and syrup combo is kind of like food glitter: It s really pretty to look at, butpatagonia discount code pizza3 ends up getting everywhere and is impossible to clean up.
As our friend Elizabeth Roman noted, they re a big mush fest, which is completely true, but not a fatal flaw because, you know, all bananas are soft.
While these lack the crispness of a good fried plantain, there is a cool textural element in the combination of the mushy banana and the batter exterior. If that doesn t bother you, you re golden, because the banana flavor is great. The peanut butter and chocolate toppings are a little too heavy here, but the caramel works great in tandem with the banana.
