'Til The Cows Come Home: Eat Your Heart Out!!

January 24, 2007

Eat Your Heart Out!!

On Saturday, after a full day of outlet shopping up at Woodbury Commons in sub-freezing weather, K. and I decided to hunker down at home with some comfort food. It was a perfect evening for one of our favorites, a little recipe I discovered while watching an Oprah rerun during my old unemployed actor days: Patti LaBelle's Over The Rainbow Macaroni and Cheese.

It's. So. Good.

I had my choir concert on Sunday, another absolutely frigid day (the air, not the music - the concert was absolutely lovely) and by the time we got home we didn't feel like cooking. So we decided it was time to break in the deep fryer that we got for Christmas. Can you see where this is going? That's right. We made Deep Fried Mac & Cheese. We dug out our fire extinguisher and aloe vera gel - you know, just in case - and got to it.

The deep fryer...totally orgasmic, just on its own.

After cutting the leftover casserole into squares, we dredged them in flour, brushed them in an egg wash and rolled them in breadcrumbs.

Into the belly of the beast!

Golden brown nuggets of deep fried goodness.

Molten mac and cheese.

I wanted to share this with you sooner, but it took this long for my arteries to reopen enough for blood flow to reach my fingers and allow me to type this much.

Posted by mak at January 24, 2007 8:39 PM

Comments

Oh. My. Zod.
My heart just stopped looking at the photos. I want it SO BADLY.

Posted by: Glenn at January 24, 2007 9:45 PM

As arteries are heard slamming shut around CyberSpace.....

Posted by: Lee at January 25, 2007 2:46 AM

Yumm. But lets hope your MD doesn't read your blog. :)

Posted by: Doxy at January 25, 2007 7:22 AM

Sweet Lord ... that must be what Heaven tastes like ...

Posted by: Jay at January 25, 2007 9:40 AM

Curses, why is everything that's so bad... so good? (I think this question could also apply to your previous post.)

Posted by: Jeffrey at January 25, 2007 11:34 AM

I found that recipe about 4 years ago I think and I have to say that there's NOTHING better.

Posted by: mark at January 25, 2007 4:58 PM

I'm hungry and there's no chance tonight of having anything nearly as good as deep fried mac and cheese. I guess it'll be Chinese take out. Damn.

Posted by: Maddog at January 25, 2007 9:06 PM

OMG - that MUST be heaven on earth!

Posted by: Spider at January 25, 2007 9:08 PM

I don't even like mac and cheese, but looks too good to pass up. It's deep fried - how can it be bad?

Posted by: Rusty at January 25, 2007 9:16 PM

Pure genius.

Posted by: Karen at January 25, 2007 10:58 PM

mmm. best cooking blogumentary ever.

Posted by: daniel at January 26, 2007 2:25 AM

That recipe seems like it is for the suicidal...

Posted by: Foxy at January 26, 2007 5:28 PM

Argh, I've just gone carb-free and I see this?
I want to die. It looks so good.

It looks delicious, and now I'm going to remove myself from your evil bloggery and have a glass of water and a good cry.
;)

Posted by: Craig at January 26, 2007 6:54 PM

Curse you and your cursed mac and cheese deep fried goodness! I'm going to go and eat something low in carbs and feel virtuous and then cry. (I want some...)

Posted by: Tony at January 28, 2007 8:43 PM

Seriously, how are you not 400 pounds? Deep fried Mars Bars, Nachos Bellegrande, this? Damn, you really live life to the fullest!

Posted by: MzOuiser at January 30, 2007 1:19 PM