{"id":395,"date":"2019-03-09T01:55:48","date_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/?p=395"},"modified":"2019-03-09T01:55:48","modified_gmt":"2019-03-09T01:55:48","slug":"fun-times-on-fish-fry-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christiniacrippes.com\/food\/2019\/03\/09\/fun-times-on-fish-fry-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Fun times on Fish Fry-day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lent<\/a> has begun. Like many lapsed Catholics, I still generally keep track of the beginning of the Lenten season and its many holy days even though I no longer follow those traditions.<\/p>\n

Still, this felt like as good a time as any to have a fish fry for those who do go without meat on Fridays during Lent. And anyway, I love fish and chips.<\/p>\n

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Fish fry ingredients.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I\u2019ve generally avoided making it, though, as I\u2019m bad at deep frying since I so rarely do it, and because I\u2019ve not had good luck at finding a good batter. I\u2019d like to tell you that my attempt this week went off without any hitches and I\u2019ll now be doing Fish Fry-days every week, but dear readers, that was not the case.<\/p>\n

The nadir was when I spilled hot oil on my shirt (but avoided burning myself badly!) and dropped a fish fillet on the floor. The peak was high, though. The beer batter was divine, my choice to use Alaskan pollock was a good one, and the fish fry was ultimately a delicious success.<\/p>\n

Aside from being generally clumsy, I also, uh, tried to do too much, trying a baked fish recipe<\/a> and a fried fish one on the same night, each with their own side. And doing all this mid-week after a couple of busy, hectic weeks.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m not giving up.<\/p>\n

After all, maybe it just was not my week to try new things (she writes as she just spent an hour and a half walking because she still doesn\u2019t know her way around campus).<\/p>\n

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Fish Fry-day!!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Here\u2019s what I did, following a Serious Eats<\/a> recipe:<\/p>\n

Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n