February 3, 2012
from the comments
When I was a little kid and we lived in South Haven, Michigan for a while, the house my family rented had one of those old electric ranges with the built-in deep fat fryer. Please remember this was back before unhealthy fried food was invented.
My mom would buy pre-made doughnut dough, the kind in a tube (like biscuits or crescent rolls). She’d pop ‘em open and separate the flat die-cut doughnut parts and fry them. The doughnut holes, fresh out and almost too hot to eat, were golden heaven. We’d sprinkle powdered sugar on them sometimes. Is there anything better than fresh, homemade doughnuts? No.
I don’t remember what we did with the doughnut parts outside the cut circles. Maybe we cooked and ate those too, never speaking about it or looking at each other.
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That’s why deep fat fryers idn cooktops are mbakidng a combe back )fries, and other deep fat fried thidngs, mbade at hombe are mbuch, mbuch better for you(.
)Pardodn my pudnctuatiodn, but I picked up Dadny’s wicked cold mbid-week and I’mb hopped up on goofballs adn Afridn.(
)Also, I dneed adnother case of Kleednex if sombeone’s goidng by Costco.(
Thadnk goodness, I’ve got plednty of cigarettes adn Vodka.
Fryers are a bitch to cleadn up. I’mb just sayidng.
I’ve beedn lyidng in the reclidner for two days. I’mb tired of lyidng idn the reclidner. So I cambe out idnto the garage for a smboke. It isdn’t too code.
Is Rick drnka?
Dnot yet, Joel.
But I amb sdnotty.
Tzigarettes adn bvodka aare good bfor whad ails youu.
Dodn’t I kdnow it, Girl.
Dadny’s takidng good care ob mbe.
For the record, I could’ndt do this drnka.
Though I mbight try agaidn later.
MGS
I didn’t mean to divert us from your fine story here. My Mom made doughnuts the same way when I was a kid. I also don’t remember what happened to the scraps from donut cutting. This much I know, Mom did not waste them. She wastes nothing.
Mom cooked them in an iron skillet. We didn’t have a stove with a fryer, that was “fancy” back then. (Well, probably “fancy” now, too. If Danny had one, I’d be cleaning it at least twice a week.)
Or learning how one “keeps up” a deep-fat fryer.
I’d also weigh three-hundred pounds.
Maybe I am a little drnka. I’m certainly, “chatty.”
Cast-iron skillet doughnuts.
My ex-husband was hell-and-Jesus with a little old deep fat fryer his mom had picked up at a thrift shop. Best egg rolls you ever had in your life.
Wish I was drnka with you, Unca Rick.
Danny has fried up some awesome egg rolls, too. Only took half a day to clean up the kitchen. The hardest part was cleaning up the ceiling.
Amae, come on, but best you wait a couple more days to. I fear I still may be nuclear on the cold front. Though I think I’ve passed its half-life. I’m on the mend. I’ll give the house a good scrubbing, once I’m off the recliner. And towels and things a good antiseptical wash.
Amae, when you come we’ll start TrueBlood from the beginning. I think I missed half of it. (It was Danny’s show, until you got here and you and I watched half-a-day of it.)
I’ve filled the last couple-days with episodes of EUReKA. (God, help me.) There’s nothing like three seasons of a so-so SyFy series on Netflix (accompanied with boxes of tissues and snotting my fool head off) to make it better.
I asked Danny, “How is [EUReKA] different from The Good Wife?“
Or Castle.