Tonight I busted out my new cast iron pan and did the first deep frying of my life. The recipe was Alton Brown’s eggplant parm from his book “I’m Just Here for the Food“. Here’s how it went down:
- Cutting the eggplant. Check.
- Heating the oil. Holy shit that’s a lot of oil!
- Setting up my dredging station. Fun.
- Setting up drying rack. This is a lot of work.
- Dredging. Even with wet and dry left and right hands, I still get hulk hands.
- Frying. McDonald’s?
- Frying. Wow, this takes a long time to get through all of the eggplant.
- Arranging in the pyrex. Damn, this is a shitload of cheese and oil.
- Baking. At least I remembered to turn on the oven.
- Eating. Delicious and rich.
Here’s what I would have changed: Now admittedly, Alton does say to get a “medium to large eggplant”, but I thought I had a pretty perfect “medium to large eggplant.” The proportions, however, were way off! I had way too much flour and egg and not nearly enough breadcrumbs and parmesan. I also did not have enough cheese or tomato sauce. Now if I had just not had enough of everything I would have assumed I purchased a “large to extra large eggplant”, but the fact that I had too much flour and egg led me to believe Alton was simply off. Or I’m a terrible fryer. It was my first time after all.
Tags: Alton Brown, cast iron, eggplant parmesan, frying
February 2, 2010 at 6:42 pm |
My, my, Charlie. Some of those words are not compatible with food.