sf wrote on Thu, 08 May 2008 06:53:52 -0700:

On Wed 07 May 2008 11:08:23p, sf told us...

On Wed, 07 May 2008 22:55:59 -0700, Blinky the Shark
wrote:

Just got a craving for deep fried mushrooms (from reading
about fried shrimp in another thread).

Mmmmmmm.

Any other fans here?

never heard of them before

You're kidding! They've been commonplace in most places I've
lived. Other favorites are breaded and deep fried zuchinni,
cucumber, pepper strips, whole green beans and others.
Several restaurants we used to frequent back in Ohio offer a
mixed platter of all these goodies as an appetizer, served
with various dips. Yummy, and half healthy...the veggies,
not the deep frying.

I dunno. Maybe it's because I don't do appetizers unless I'm
going straight for the goodies like a plate of fried calamari.
Why fill up on vegetables and fries when you can stuff
yourself with those babies?

The only deep-fried vegetables that I eat (sparingly) are cooked
Japanese Tempura style. I've never seen mushrooms tempura and I
suppose some preliminary cooking would be needed but probably
onion rings, which I have seen, require some work other than
just frying. I may have mentioned it before but, of all tempura
vegetables, I like sweet potato best but zucchini and other
squash aren't bad. You can keep broccoli tempura but the same
applies to broccoli in most shapes and forms!

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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