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Recipe: Quick and Easy Homemade Taquitos

We have a serious soft spot for taquitos or rolled tacos. There's just something about their extra crunchy ends and tender meat filling with that little burst of spice and lime that gets us every t...

How To Make Corndogs At Home
Street Fair Food Week

You know what? I've never liked corndogs. The ones I had came from concession stands, and I just didn't like the taste. But after I made my own corndogs from scratch, I became a corndog convert. ...

How To Make Battered and Fried Sweets At Home
Street Fair Food Week

After the making of our funnel cakes yesterday, we sent the men of the house out for some, well for lack of a better phrase, junk food. We wanted to try our hand — just once! — at maki...

How To Make Funnel Cakes At Home
Street Fair Food Week

If we had to name the ultimate Fair Food, hands down it would have to be funnel cakes. The sweet smell of fluffy, frying bread in combination with powdered sugar is enough to make even the stronges...

Craving: Crunchy Oven-Fried Chicken

It's not that we're afraid of frying or even that we're hoping to avoid the extra calories. It's just that sometimes we want a bit of that lovely crunch without going to all the trouble of deep-fat fr...

How To Make Finger-Licking Fried Chicken
It's Not As Scary As It Seems

After getting married, one of the first things we learned to make was fried chicken. With a husband whose Grandmother had award-winning chicken frying skills, it was a quick realization that we too wo...

Blogging The New York Times Magazine: Doughnuts!

Delectable photo of churros aside, we have two words for you about this article from the Sunday Magazine: Powdered. Doughnuts. (okay, three words) Yum....

Word of Mouth: Anglaise

Anglaise: noun, a coating for food that will be fried; verb, the act of coating or breading food before frying. Coating food that's destined for the fryer with an anglaise simultaneously seals in moi...

Quick Tip: How to Tell When Oil is Hot

Recipes often say to start cooking ingredients "when the oil is hot." But this seems like something that's easier said than done! The problem with adding raw ingredients to under-heated oil is that t...

Good Product: Wondra Flour

Many people already use easily-dissolving Wondra Instant Flour for lump-free gravies and sauces. This wheat flour has been pre-cooked and then dried (much like instant rice), so it dissolves without s...