When you Crave Onion Rings, you Make Onion Rings!

    I just spent the last half hour of my life making one of the most american foods that you can find, Onion Rings. In my own personal opinion I have three food that classify as most american 1. Burgers
2. Onion Rings 3. Hot Dogs. Although french fries are a close tie for third.

     So how to make onion rings from scratch is what I would like to tell you about today. Im going to start off with a simple list of ingredients.

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1 egg
1/4 cup oil
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 large onion
Flour (for coating onions)
Oil for cooking
Pinch of sugar if not using a sweet onion.

Now that's a pretty simple list of ingredients. Cooking the actual food is even easier. But before we start cooking we have to know how to cook with hot oil.

     First of all never ever let hot oil and water mix. Don't even have water near the oil at all. If the two mix hot oil will be sprayed everywhere. The hot oil will burn anyone and anything around you, including you. If an oil fire does start (which is very unlikely) put flour and/or baking soda on it. When cooking with oil I always have flour at least an arm's length away. If you have a fire extinguisher you should make you that you know where it is before you start to cook. After you are done remove oil from heat and let cool overnight, this insures that the oil is cool and no will get hurt when disposing of the oil. Now that we have gone over safety procedures, let's cook.

    First of all, when cooking get out all of the ingredients and supplies you will need for this recipe. This will make cooking quick and efficient.  For this recipe you will need:
1 larger pot with tall sides or deep fryer (I have not used a deep fryer. I do not know how to use one.)
1 large bowl for mixing in
1 blender for mixing
1 medium bowl for flour
Plate with paper towels on it
Cutting board
Kitchen knife
Tongs to flip onions and take them out of the oil.
Something to measure temp of oil. Candy thermometer or meat thermometer will work

1. Fill the bottom of pot with 2-3 in of oil. Turn on medium-high heat. Check temperature often. You want the oil to be about 375º F. If using deep fryer, follow deep fryer directions.
2. Peel and cut your onion. Peel away the outside of the onion. Cut the onion so that you get a circle, do this for the whole onion. You want each ring to be about 1/2in - 1in in width. After cutting seperate each circle into rings. You should be able to see the layers. If you can't fit your finger though the hole than the ring is too small and can be thrown away.
3. Now in the large bowl, blend the liquids: milk, egg, and oil on a low speed for about 1 minute.
4. Add your dry ingredients: flour, baking powder, salt. Blend with the liquids till smooth.
5. Put the flour for coating the onions in the medium bowl. about 1/2 cup - 1 cup should be fine.
6. Once your oil is about 375º F you're ready to start cooking.
     - Start with your raw onion rings
     - Dip them in the flour so that they have a light coating
     - Then dip them in the batter.
     - Drop gently in the hot oil. Only have about 3 or 4 in the pot at one time.
     - Flip the rings when one side becomes golden brown, take out when both sides are golden brown
     - Place on the plate. The paper towels will absorb any extra oil.
7. If you would like you can put them in the oven at 150º to keep warm. Optional
8. Enjoy!

    This is one of my favorite recipes because it is so simple and delicious! You can use this recipe to feed a group or just a couple people! I hope that someone trys out this scrumptious recipe. Enjoy!.

What is sugary, sweet, and scrumptious?

SWEETS!!! Yummy, candy and cakes. I love to cook desserts, everything from caramels and lollipops to cakes and cobbler. Im going to show some of my favorite recipes, such as homemade lollipops and peach cobbler. Be warned These recipes are very very yummy and bad for you you!!
These are not my recipes! I found them on the internet!

Picture credited to Food Network

So lets start with Peach Cobbler recipe:

4 cups of peeled, sliced peaches

2 cups of sugar divided

1/2 cup of water

8 tablespoons of butter (2 sticks)

1 1/2 cups of self-rising flour (not normal flour)

1 1/2 cups milk

Ground cinnamon

Ok lets get started on cooking this bad boy.
 1. Preheat oven to 350º F

 2. Combine peaches, 1 cup of sugar, and water in a saucepan. Mix well. Bring to boil, let simmer for 10 minutes. take off heat

 3. Put butter in a 3-quart baking dish (You can use other sizes but nothing smaller than 3-quart) place in the oven.

 4. Mix remaining ingredients sugar, flour and milk. Mix milk in slowly to prevent clumping. Pour mixture over the butter. Do not mix. Spoon fruit on top, gently pour syrup on top. Sprinkle cinnamon on top. Bake for 30-45 minutes

 5. Serve with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream

I absolutely love this recipe because it has much personality in that is sweet but not overwhelmingly and just the perfect balance of fruits, bread and sweet yummyness.

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 Do you like lollipops? Because lollipops are one of the easiest candies to make and very fun and tasty!

Picture credited to Myself!

So lets start by getting our ingredients together.

So you're going to need:

2 cups sugar

2/3 corn syrup
3/4 cups water

Food coloring

Flavoring

Lets start cooking

1. Start by lightly greasing a baking sheet or cookie sheet and getting a bunch of toothpicks

2. In a large saucepan put your sugar, water, and corn syrup. Mix well.

3. On medium high heat cook the mixture in till on your candy till it reaches 310º F on your candy thermometer. Stir often.

4. Add flavoring and food coloring till it's how you like it.

5. Take off heat. Put spoonfuls on the baking sheet quickly! Place toothpicks in candy.

6. Let cool. They will cool very quickly.

7. Enjoy

This is a real easy recipe that doesn't require much effort. and is great for a simple sweet treat.

I love to cook no matter what it is. So I hope you enjoy these recipes!