This Can’t Be Serious, But Yet it Is – Candy Coated What?
A couple days ago my other half told me to look over his shoulder at his screen during our morning time dedicated to cappuccino and surfing. His smile told me it would be less about the current woes of the economy and more about something cute and amusing. What he showed me would come up in the next couple of days in fun conversations to friends about how the new height in cooking was to deep fry something and cover it in chocolate. What other way could you possibly improve on anything, including of course the most perfect American confection, the Twinkie?
I couldn’t find the original picture he showed me that morning, but here is another on I found on the net…
Can you guess what it is yet?
My First Time
I can’t remember the first time I heard about deep friend Twinkies, but I do remember the first time I had one. Today when asked. “How did it taste?” I could only remark, “Well, it tasted like a Twinkie, but… deep fried and covered in chocolate.” I wasn’t being sarcastic, it was the best way I could describe it. I guess I thought that when I first opened my mouth to taste this cream filled delectable, some incredibly different and miraculous revelation of flavor was going to happen. Well… it didn’t. I suppose the most incredible thing that occurred that day was that someone found a way for me to eat another Twinkie.
American Innovation and the Evolution of Cuisine
During the discussion of various food objects, such as Twinkies and Snickers bars being taken “to the next level” by deep frying them and adding chocolate, my brain starting thinking of various ideas as it tried to extrapolate new “foods”. I thought that perhaps in some way this is the same thing that happened to croissants over time. They were perfect to start, all buttery and yummy; to add chocolate, even ham and cheese, well anything… is just taking it to the next level of delicious. Maybe this was the basis for all wonderful deserts of Europe, just building from wonderful experiments into newer more complex flavors. Evolving things like a simple custard into a creme brulee, or coffee and cheese into Tiramisu shows the artisan efforts in cooking. There certainly has been a slow evolving perfection of the world’s confections.
So here we are in America. Should we be any different than to evolve our culinary treasures to the next level?
Mmmmm…. Deep fried Twinkie. Quite possibly the culmination of all things American. I mean, I don’t think there could be anywhere else in the world, other than this country, that someone could up with such a … gosh it is hard to come up with just the right words… ummmm…. sweet cream filled deep fried food? It should be almost be a comfort to us Americans, those boxes of Twinkies left down in the fallout shelter by our grandparents can now be used for something other than feeding our pet cockroaches after Armageddon.
Everything Can Be Improved with Chocolate
It is a common truism, except for those possibly allergic, that chocolate can improve basically anything that can be eaten. There is only one other food that I think could rival chocolate in this regard. That singular food? Bacon.
Yes, bacon…The picture that my other half showed me a couple mornings ago was candy coated bacon!
As I lived through the last couple days of my life, laughing with friends of the audacity of such an idea as candy coated bacon, my mind went back and forth between the obviousness of such a creation and the well… the audacity of it. Candy coated bacon… in a weird-twisted-break-in-the-fucking-time-space-continuum-kind-of-way it really makes perfect sense.
So, I sat down this evening and decided to look for the original image shown to me that fateful morning, and I have no idea why it surprised me, but instead of that image I found many different twists on the candy coated bacon recipe. The top most picture on this page is actually a picture of bacon being covered in chocolate.
Here are some of the recipes I found:
http://www.recipezaar.com/Brown-Sugar-Bacon-33649
http://southernfood.about.com/od/baconrecipes/r/bln212.htm
http://www.chocolatebytes.com/chocolate-bacon-cheeseburgers/
http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/03/david-lebovitzs-candied-bacon-ice-cream.html
You can certainly Google for more recipes than this. Stories of bacon ice cream abound. Quite intriguing…
Would I Try It?
Candied bacon? Hell yeah! But it might take me a while. You see, like the deep fried Twinkies, I would have to figure out what the perfect wine was that went with it first.
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