Fair Food

It's Fair Time!  It's the annual Tulsa State Fair!  This year it's billed as '11 Days of Awesome!' Yep, it lasts for 11 days. And we live not much more than a mile from the fair. Now if you live in this area, you are not exactly overly thrilled about 11 days of awesome. This means that for 11 days we cannot buy our groceries at the store we like to patronize - traffic is to intense.

Now when you think fair one of the first things you think of is Fair Food.  Nothing better than fair food - fried butter, fried Twinkies, fried snickers, anything fried. And the strangest thing advertised for this year was scorpion topped pizza.  Yep, that's right scorpion pizza!

Fair going on and we have new food night. Of course it has to be fair themed.

What's a fair without Corn Dogs?

These are Red Velvet Corn Dogs.

Look pretty nasty to me.  No, we did not have these.  We did have Corn Dogs though.

Don't these look better?  Yes, Gary made homemade corn dogs. He used Ree Drummond's recipe. Very easy , Krusteaz pancake mix, cornmeal, an egg and water.  Mix to desired consistency. Skewer those hot dogs, dip in batter and fry in hot oil (375 degrees).  Oh my gosh!!  These were good!  I am not usually a big fan of corn dogs but I really liked these.  They did not look as 'pretty' as what you would normally see but as Gary said 'that is what makes them rustic'.   Yummers!

Here's Miss Annette enjoying one of those rustic corn dogs.

We also had Frito Pies.  Nothing new here.  Just some Fritos in a bowl, top with chili, onions, and cheese.  No new recipe just something else to eat because we wanted to be sure we had enough to eat.

What's something else you always think of when you think fair food?  How about Caramel Apples?

Don't these look good? Well, they were!   Oh my!  Miss Annette melted the caramels, put sticks in the apples and dipped them. She then topped them with chopped peanuts.  Heaven!  She used Gala apples so they were juicy.  Just perfect!

Now one more have to have fair food.

That's right, I made homemade funnel cakes!  Made a batter of flour, salt, baking powder, eggs, sugar and milk to thin consistency. The batter needs to be put in a container that you can pour out of.  The recipe said to use a funnel but we used a plastic bottle. Drizzle the batter in hot oil and cook until brown, turn over and cook another minute then put on paper towels.  Top with powdered sugar,

Now it is important to make sure you top with POWDERED SUGAR. Be extra careful because the container of flour can look just like powdered sugar. And guests are much to polite to tell you they don't taste quite right. They just decline more powdered sugar for their funnel cake.  Now let me also be clear that I was not the one to sprinkle flour on the funnel cakes. That was Gary - who was helping me out as I fried the funnel cakes.  Fortunately, we had enough batter that the first three topped with flour could be pitched in the trash and new ones made.  Gary ate the third one and that was when he realized what he had done.

Once they were topped with the right white topping they tasted wonderful.

Now, I bet you wish you had joined us this week, don't you?  Stay tuned for more new food night.