my sister turned 24

my beautiful sister, jordan love, turned 24 last friday. seth and i made the trip to fayetteville despite the snow and took the fryer so jo could have a deep fry birthday. it was a blast. things we breaded ourselves and friend were squash, zucchini, asparagus, green beans, broccoli, ravioli, red peppers, mushrooms, cheese cubes and fried chicken. For these we used an egg wash seasoned with pepper and flour breading seasoned with a pinch of cinammon. My favorites were the squash, zucchini, broccoli and ravioli. The cheese cubes didn't really work. the cheese melted into the breading so when you bit into it the cube was hollow...sort of bizarre. things we fried that we bought in the freezer section (is that cheating?) were jalapeno poppers, corn nuggets and sweet potato fries. all of these were a hit...so yummy!



*this is the fried chicken.

desserts turned out to be a little trickier. most of the things were really soft so the heat of the fryer just melted them but we can't say we failed at trying. we made a sweet batter that we tried dipping things in but it only worked out occasionally. we then attempted an egg wash, seasoned with vanilla and flour breading mixed with brown sugar and cinnamon (this didn't work everytime either). we found that if the items were frozen they turned out much better. we did bananas, cookie dough, cheesecake bites, reeses peanut butter cups, brownies, funnel cakes and the most interesting thing we fried were oatmeal cream pies. bananas were good, cookie dough didn't work every time but when it did it was quite tasty (same with cheesecake), the reeses peanut butter cups basically disintegrated and the oatmeal cream pies were a hit.


her party was so fun. the deep fry was such an interesting spin on a party and the dancing (had to dance off all that fried food) at the end made the entire night.


*this is jo and her boyfriend nathan, whipping their hair back and forth.

love you jo. i am so glad we got to make the trip and celebrate your birthday with you.