Posted on 09/13/2006 11:37:56 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
Hush puppies are yummy little critters. But I can live without the cayenne. All the Louisiana folks can have it...
That is my favorite line from the movie!
Best hushpuppies I've ever had were at the Sanitary Fish Market and Restaurant in Morehead City, NC. They (along with all the other good restaurants in that area) make the long style hushpuppies. No onions, and they go great with fried oysters.
free dixie,sw
A little taste of home always brings back memories.
Sigh, I guess I'll just have to wait until I'm back home at Christmas. :)
"Having Cheddar or shrimp in them almost makes them a side dish"
Metro-puppies. Ignore these foo-foo adaptations.
Martha White Sweet Yellow cornbread mix with a little onion added to taste..... Couldn't be more transparent or easy.
Put it in a plastic bag with corner cut out and extrude.
I love hushpuppies...I lived for 5 yrs in North Carolia, when my husband was stationed at Fort Bragg...
The first time we went out to eat in a local seafood restaurant, we received a big old batch of hush puppies on our plates along with the seafood dinner..we did not even know what they were...had to ask the waitress, who quickly realized we were from up north....
Since that first time we bit into those yummy hush puppies, we were hooked on them...everyone in my family loved them, and we were delighted to find, that when we went to almost any restaurant, no matter what you ordered, hush puppies came along with the meal...
YUM YUM....
Hey Mabel, "what do you want to do with this left-over batter" Mabel, "make it into small balls and throw it in the fryer after the fish...we're a little short on fish anyway."
Occasionally he would take his own pups when we went out and had some "store bought bobeque."
LOL
Ha! I can still see my dad with a big brown paper grocery bag full of flour just shakin' those fish covered. Then he would just drop them in the hot grease and voila!
LOL!
My Grandma used to make one big hoe cake the size of an iron frying pan. And we'd have rice and stewed tomatoes as a side dish. Man I'd love to have a slice of that hoecake now!
Even more than "two yutes"? :-)
What Hal said. Hushpuppies are plum-sized at the biggest. And they're just meal/dough and onion, fried. None of that cheddar or shrimp nonsense.
An onionless hushpuppy is an abomination unto the Lord, and it is vile and wretched in His sight. You are correct to condemn it.
So, YOU're the ONE. It's because of you that people make hushpuppies without onions! Southern cooks just don't want to offend *anyone.*
But glad you agree with me on the grease making all the difference. It needs to be "broken in." That's why I don't like to fry stuff at home - besides the smell in the house, it's never as good as at a place with used grease!
Those "hushpuppies" you had with corn in them were corn fritters. Love them, but they're not hushpuppies. They are good with fried oysters, but so are hushpuppies.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.