Fried foods.

This week in class we made fried foods such as catfish, chicken, hush puppies, okra, and fries. I don't normally fry foods and have never used a big deep fat fryer until in class so it was a new experience for me to make all fried foods. I thought the fried chicken turned out the best and tasted great. I learned a few different techniques in class as well since I don't normally fry foods in a deep fat fryer I had never heard of the swimming method before class. In my group a partner and I for in charge of making the hush puppies however, we had a few mishaps while making it for instance we grabbed a different kind of cornmeal than that which is normally used for hush puppies, also we almost didn't saute the onions since the recipe didn't call for it, and then put too much onion in the mixture. What I learned from this is to go more with my instinct of what to do while making a recipe rather than following the recipe exact except of course with baking which happens to be my culinary option of choice.