State Fair of Texas: New Food Fight

Posted on September 2nd, 2009 3:09pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Bacon, Baking, beer, Cheap trick for comments, Chocolate, Cooking, Food Fight!

The finalists for the Fifth Annual Big Tex Choice Awards were announced yesterday. A panel of three judges will decide Best Taste and Most Creative winners on Labor Day.

Perhaps we should have our own little voter’s poll below. Let’s Ranch It Up for these tasty tidbits. Or submit one of your own. Go crazy. Be creative–let’s try for 67 comments. K? Go.
Real Contestants:

Green Goblins – Cherry peppers are hollowed out, stuffed with spicy shredded chicken and guacamole, then battered and deep fried. Served three to a skewer and topped with queso.
Deep Fried Butter – 100% pure butter is whipped till light and fluffy, then specially sweetened with a choice of several flavors. The tantalizing mixture is surrounded by a special dough and quick fried. Served on a stick.
Twisted Yam on a Stick – A delicious, towering, spiral-cut sweet potato on a 13” skewer is fried to a delicate crispy texture, then gently rolled in butter and dusted with cinnamon and sugar.
Fernie’s Deep Fried Peaches & Cream – Sweet juicy peaches are coated in a delicious batter of cinnamon, ginger, coconut, graham cracker crumbs, eggs & milk, then deep fried to a crunchy golden brown on the outside, while luscious and sweet on the inside. Served on a plate drizzled with raspberry sauce and sprinkled with streusel topping & a dollop of whipped cream. A side of vanilla butter cream icing is provided for dipping.
Texas Fried Pecan Pie – A mini-pecan pie is battered and deep fried to a golden brown. Served drizzled with rich caramel sauce, then topped with whipping cream and chopped candied pecans.
Country Fried Pork Chips – Thin sliced pork loin is seasoned, surrounded by a tasty corn meal batter and deep fried. Served with sides of ketchup or cream gravy.
Sweet Jalapeno Corn Dog Shrimp – Shrimp on a stick is coated with a sweet and spicy corn meal batter, then deep fried to a golden brown and served with a spicy glaze.
Fried Peanut Butter Cup Macaroon – A peanut butter cup is wrapped inside a coconut macaroon fried and dusted with powdered sugar. Also available with a scoop of Blue Bell ice cream.

30 comments

  1. Gotta start taking the Lipitor now!

    Fried pizza- Kinda like those Totino’s pizza rolls but fried so the cheese is nice and gooey, with little bits of pepperoni or sausage.

    @ 3:15 pm on September 2, 2009

  2. What about deep fried tacos? Oh, wait–Jack in the Box already has those.

    @ 3:22 pm on September 2, 2009

  3. Ooooooh colored fonts, fancy fancy. Not just colored but keyed-in to the individual item!

    @ 4:37 pm on September 2, 2009

  4. eat my chicken-fried dust, bluebird.

    @ 5:00 pm on September 2, 2009

  5. That is so fattening.

    @ 5:38 pm on September 2, 2009

  6. Big balls of chickenfried batter spiced with jalapenos and covered in cream gravy

    @ 5:40 pm on September 2, 2009

  7. Fried butter is just distgusting and wrong. It is all for publicity Fat people you people are fat

    @ 5:44 pm on September 2, 2009

  8. Fried water

    @ 5:46 pm on September 2, 2009

  9. Deep fried butter? Is this for real? Why don’t they just sell cans of Crisco with a spoon. long live Fletchers!

    @ 6:33 pm on September 2, 2009

  10. Green goblins sound scrumptious. I vote GG.

    @ 6:50 pm on September 2, 2009

  11. Just make sure you have your cardiologist on speed dial.

    @ 7:04 pm on September 2, 2009

  12. Twisted Yam On A Stick for me. I am going to make those for Thanksgiving. They will go great with the turkey legs!

    @ 7:19 pm on September 2, 2009

  13. I would eat that peanut butter cup with Blue Bell off Blythe Becks ass.

    @ 7:32 pm on September 2, 2009

  14. Brian Luscher on a stick?

    @ 9:36 pm on September 2, 2009

  15. Dick on a stick?

    @ 10:32 pm on September 2, 2009

  16. Give me the Green Goblins.

    @ 8:47 am on September 3, 2009

  17. Use the fried butter recipe but substitute coffee and Irish Whiskey, taking care not to volatilize the booze during cooking. Call it Friedrish Coffee. Serve with whipped cream.

    @ 8:55 am on September 3, 2009

  18. Fried beer. On a stick.

    Make it happen, people.

    @ 9:09 am on September 3, 2009

  19. Wick on a stick!

    @ 9:49 am on September 3, 2009

  20. Fried pecan pie could be yummy and I don’t think I’d kick the peanut butter cup macaroon out of bed. But fried butter, blech, eww, groww. What is wrong with these people?

    And nice job on the colors Nancy. :)

    @ 9:54 am on September 3, 2009

  21. Leppert Steak Fingers

    @ 9:58 am on September 3, 2009

  22. What, no votes for the peaches and cream yet? Sounds tasty as do those green goblins. Ditto on the nice colors Nancy.

    @ 10:31 am on September 3, 2009

  23. Nancy sandwich! A treat that is bitter and sweet.

    @ 10:34 am on September 3, 2009

  24. The yam at least sounds healthy. Fried pecan pie for dessert, its like Christmas morning!

    PS I don’t know if this one is going to make it to 67 comments… but I know I do like onion rings…

    @ 10:48 am on September 3, 2009

  25. How are the judges chosen for this competition?

    @ 5:10 pm on September 3, 2009

  26. Some friends and I had an all-day fryfest recently where we experimented a bit. Zucchini, pickles, hot peppers, blue cheese mashed potatos, mac-n-cheese, assorted CM sausages, oreos, twinkies, and ice cream sandwiches. As predicted by some, the deviled eggs were rather unfortunate…as were my chest pains later than night. Totally worth it, though.

    @ 5:17 pm on September 3, 2009

  27. you deep fried deviled eggs?

    @ 6:37 pm on September 3, 2009

  28. Unfortunately.

    My friends think they may have gone wrong in freezing the eggs first, which caused them to turn translucent. They did make lovely popsicles, though. Well, maybe they didn’t taste good but the pictures sure are funny.

    I’m hoping the idea is dead, but I think they are just stubborn enough to try again. I’ll let you know if it works out.

    @ 9:54 pm on September 3, 2009

  29. I am on a quest to discover a way to make a deep fried margarita. I am sure it can be done, but how? Hmmmm?!?

    @ 12:00 am on September 4, 2009

  30. I WILL be trying the green goblins, the twisted yam, the fried peaches and cream, and the corn dog shrimp. For dessert: an old standby, fried oreos.

    @ 1:05 am on September 4, 2009