maybe mimosas and deep fried Twinkies would make a wonderful brunch. You never know with this crew.

I definitely think I would eat a deep-fried twinkie. It's on my bucket list.

I think most of the recipes in my recipe boxes are like that. I'll cut/tear/clip a recipe from the food section of a newspaper or magazine, thinking I'll make it someday and it hangs around for years. How do I know that? Because I put the date on the paper. There are some recipes that have been there for at least five years, and I still haven't thrown them away. I haven't made them, either! That's really sad!

New Year's resolution: Clean out recipe file!

Marda, I think we discussed that deep fried twinkie recipe
here at the party once upon a time.

I wonder if that fried twinkie would taste good with fried ice cream?

Deep fried Snickers....

Dorie

Suzy...is your bucket list getting longer? LOl Deep fried Snickers? You hear about this kind of stuff but does anyone know anyone who has eaten any of it? For instance,the latest Christmas food email going around is the Cherpumple cake and there are other variations of it. But who has ever eaten one????

Here is a link that might be useful: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp4yWTLIPaE

Now I know I am Southern! I've had a deep fried twinkie described as "Twinkie Beignets, Flash-fried Twinkies® served w/ ice cream" (and fried snickers and fried cookie dough, bet you didn't know that even existed, did ya?). Wasn't impressed. I'd suggest getting it over with Suzy just so that you won't think about it any more. Come to Nashville and we'll go to Jackson's so that you get the full experience. I'm just surprised they don't deep fry their milkshakes. ;)

I thought of this thread last night. I was going through my dessert notebook when I came across three ingredient peanut butter cookies. I remembered that I'd made them and they sucked, so I tossed it into the recycling bin. I thought Woohoo, got rid of one whole one (drop in the bucket). A sidenote: I did later find a pretty basic, but right on, peanut butter cookie recipe. The first (Joy of Cooking) had been too hard, the second too soft (the aforementioned three ingredient), and the third just right (Cooking for Engineers), so I may call them "Goldilocks-chair-and-bed" cookies. Digression over: You may or may not remember, I've decided to disallow myself to collect any more recipes until I try the ones I already have and decide to keep or toss. It felt so good to toss it, but there is a long way to go.

So yes, I do keep recipes and wonder why in the heck I got it. What I have noticed about myself, I'll copy the same one over and over. I must have ten recipes for tiramisu, three for fried rice (that's how I perfected my recipe, I took the best of all the parts and then combined them), five for onion soup... Do you do that, copy the same thing over and over?

Here is a link that might be useful: Cooking for Engineers

I have my grandma's collected recipes. Most from the 40's - 50's. She was enthralled with recipes that used the already made stuff, like canned milk, jello, canned fruit. She really didn't like to cook. Some of these are really awful sounding: a jelled consume ring made with Campbells tomato soup filled with creamed spinich?! What were they thinking? Or the "dainty luncheon fruit salad": a pear half, face up on a piece of lettuce with a little ball of creamed cheese. We are all about fresh from the garden fruits and vegetables, I don't thinke we realize how liberating the canned prepared stuff was for our mothers and grandmothers. Even so.....don't think I am going to try that spinich tomato soup thing.