Crunchy Food

[Bugbear]

The "boiled until soft" comments in the Irish food thread got me to thinking about crunchy food.
So, what's your crunchy munchy?
It doesn't have to be "bad for you" food either; I eat lots of raw carrots, for example.

[Steve of Lansing]

Fried shrimp, fried moral mushrooms, and fried okra.

[LitTrog]

fried moral mushrooms

I try to fry up the immoral mushrooms--makes me feel like I'm doing god's work.
Totally with you on the fried shrimp. Made up some fab po'boys for dinner tonight!

[Bugbear]

I try to fry up the immoral mushrooms--makes me feel like I'm doing god's work. ...

:cthulhusmiley:

[chrisupyonder]

I make my own potato crisps. Very thinly sliced potato with the skins on deep fried in olive oil. Then add salt and malt vinager. Eat hot or cold.

Chris.

[TurboKittie]

I try to fry up the immoral mushrooms--makes me feel like I'm doing god's work.
Totally with you on the fried shrimp. Made up some fab po'boys for dinner tonight!

I made up some hot pepper bacon popper dip that went exceptionally well with crudites.

[Bugbear]

Ya, I have one of those slicer things, and I make crisps sometimes, but not always out of potatoes, and I usually bake them. It makes strips of different sizes, too.
I like pumpkin chips

[Iain Robb]

Wonderful timing for this question ...

Last night I made chili (which came out great, but that's another topic), and while looking for a different cornbread recipe to go along with it (I find most cornbreads boring and barely edible), I came across a cheese cornbread recipe in a Southern Living Breads cookbook.

It called for a round pan, and the only thing I could find was a rather elaborate old heavy metal bundt cake pan. I'm sure I used too much shortening as I tried to make sure all the ridges were properly greased.

When I took it out of the oven, it slipped right out of the pan, and the crust was a beautiful brown, crunchy from almost being fried, as well as from the browned cheese and the cornmeal.

[Piipriker]

... cornbread ...

How about this one:

Jalapeño Corn Bread

1 cup cornmeal
1 cup flour
1 ½ teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1/3 cup sugar
2 large eggs beaten slightly
1 cup sour cream
¼ cup butter, melted and cooled
2/3 cup milk
1 tablespoon seeded and minced jalapeño
2/3 cup chopped green bell pepper
½ cup onion, finely chopped
1 cup corn kernels
½ cup grated swiss cheese
¼ teaspoon cayenne pepper

Sift together dry ingredients and add remaining ingredients.
Mix well, pour into an oiled 2 liter baking dish.
Bake at 190°C (370°F) for 35-40 minutes or until done

[Rkillip]

Circus peanuts. Not the salty legumes you munch when you go to smell the elephants, but the little mushy wads of toxic-orange sugary foulness you find at convenience stores. leave the bag open, let them breathe for a day and they turn crunchy. At this point the part of me brain that is interestd in survival shuts down.