Hush Puppies

Lol. Every day , I try a new hush puppies recipe from YouTube.
By far the easiest is:

One box of Jiffy Corn Muffin mix
I/3 cup of flour
1/3 cup of milk(I use either buttermilk or canned milk)
1-egg

It's pretty good. I add some green onions.

Today I'm trying a new recipe from scratch.

1/2 cup of flour
1 cup of yellow corn meal
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbs of sugar
1/2 tsp of garlic powder
1/2tsp onion powder
1 tsp salt
1 egg
1/2 cup of milk

I'll add some crushed pepper flakes.

Very economical! Very filling!

What can you do with this?

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/fried-mashed-potato-balls/

Calypso Jones wrote:What can you do with this?

https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/fried-mashed-potato-balls/

I've made those. Very little difference in taste if you use fresh mashed potatoes or potato flakes. Flakes are much cheaper as a 10 pound bag of Red potatoes is now $10 or more.

I made them into a patty, resembling a hash brown .
You can make a sandwich with them , like dat. Lol.

I just wrote corn meal and lard on my list.

lard...the secret to the best fried chicken.

Calypso Jones wrote:lard...the secret to the best fried chicken.

The Lord gave us Lard!

Got some ZUMMO brand boudin, stuffed, bell peppers in the small convection oven.
The black-eyed peas and smoked sausage in the slow cooker are ready.
Hush puppy batter is made and in the fridge.

Just have to heat a little oil and fry the puppies when I'm ready to eat.

I think I will pick up the solar panels and bring them inside before I eat.
Cause I may not be able to move after I eat.

It hit 100 but is down to 99 right now.

So here's the critique on the last batch of hush puppies.

That recipe made 15-restaurant-sized puppies.
I finally got the ice cream scoop thing down. Those things double in size , so you just need about half a small scooper to get them to size. If you use a full, small scooper, they will be large and tend to overcook on the outside while the inside is still raw.

Another thing hit me. They make a lot of this batter in the restaurants and prolly have it refrigerated. I refrigerated it covered for 2 hours. It was very easy to work with after that and made perfectly round puppies.

It was more on the savory side. Could have used double the sugar for me and more onion powder. I could taste the pepper flakes . By no means was anything hot.

Soon, I'm going to make this batter with crawfish tail meat or lump crab meat.

Tonnerre et e'clair! Mais ca c'est bon, ouais!
Thunder and lightning!  Well dat is good, yeah!

A hush puppy here is a shoe lol.

HawkTheSlayer wrote:Lol. Every day , I try a new hush puppies recipe from YouTube.
By far the easiest is:

One box of Jiffy Corn Muffin mix
I/3 cup of flour
1/3 cup of milk(I use either buttermilk or canned milk)
1-egg

It's pretty good. I add some green onions.

Today I'm trying a new recipe from scratch.

1/2 cup of flour
1 cup of yellow corn meal
1 tsp baking powder
2 tbs of sugar
1/2 tsp of garlic powder
1/2tsp onion powder
1 tsp salt
1 egg
1/2 cup of milk

I'll add some crushed pepper flakes.

Very economical! Very filling!

Wish I could eat like that.

I'm tired of my diet of chicken, ground beef and burgers (in keto-friendly taco shells) and bananas and fruit.

All this good food...and all I can do is drool over it.