Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Cuisses de Grenouilles OR French Fried Chicken



Frog Legs
Milk
1/2c Flour
2tsp Herbes de Provence
Vegetable Oil, for frying

Anyone who says frog legs taste like chicken is a fucking idiot. They taste absolutely nothing like chicken. Their consistencies are somewhat similar but frog's flavor is much closer to fish. So I guess I can understand how the common pleb's feeble brain could get confused. Don't feel too bad. You can't help it.

Soak the frog legs in milk for at least two hours. Mix the flour and the herbes de provence in a shallow bowl. Pat the frog legs dry and dredge them. Set them on a plate for a few minutes and dredge them again. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. This is how you get a nice solid coat. Put a shitload of vegetable oil in a frying pan over medium heat. Once it heats up toss in your legs until browned, about five minutes per side. I didn't do it here but the Frenchies flash saute some garlic and parsley in butter, spoon it over the fried legs, and serve with a lemon wheel.

It is unfortunate so many people in America turn their nose up at eating frog legs. They are delicious, nutritious, and seditious. Well, the latter doesn't make any sense but that was the only other word I could think of that rhymed. Eat it.

10 comments:

Psychocat said...

What? You couldn't think of meretricious, pernicious, suspicious, ambitious, malicious, capricious, officious, superstitious, vicious, propitious, judicious or fictitious?

Frog legs do kinda taste like catfish to me, so I marinate them in buttermilk mixed with cajun spices...NOM!


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Cooking Asshole said...

Someone used the rhyming dictionary!

Portland Charcuterie Project said...

Great post.. and one of my all time favs..

it's nice to see you make something that isn't pancakes or bacon

Cooking Asshole said...

That gives me an idea...bacon pancakes!

Alex Neely Loves Cock! said...

mmm bacon pancakes...man you are about as original as freakin IHOP, which by the way, has amazing bacon pancakes...

keep trying...im sure you will come up with something original...

how about making some suicide sushi? just throw some cyanide laced roe on top...Eat It!

asshole...

David Taylor said...

Had my first Frog Legs in Portland at a Cajun restaurant. I think it was on Killingsworth, or somewhere around there. Really good!

Tender Branson said...

Picture makes me think of basic instinct.

Psychocat said...

Actually, m'dear, I don't even HAVE a rhyming dictionary, or even a thesaurus! I'm simply a language geek...

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Cooking Asshole said...

Dammit Jimmy!

You were at EaT:an oyster bar on Williams (near Killing[i]sworth[it]). They are fantastic but a lot of people disagree with me.

Never saw it,

yeah, me neither..

yoyoyoyo said...

Who's that snooty looking prick in your photo? He looks like a Frenchie with a fattened duck liver shoved up his ass. Do they think they're so smart BECAUSE they frogs and snails, or do they think they eat frogs and snails BECAUSE they're so smart?