You really lucked out in the DIL department, but she obviously lucked out, too, in that she got a DIL she WANTS to help.
OK, explain the deep-fried ham to me. Is it juicier or what? It seems to me regular ol’ ham is juicy enough. What benefits does frying confer upon it?
The ham was juicy with cajun butter injected into it. Without that done prior to dunking in the hot peanut oil I could see it being very dry. The spices in the butter were a bit over the top, for me. Son-of-a-wrek sliced it after it rested, kinda thinly. It was a massive ammt.of sliced ham. Everybody will have sandwich meat this week. I heard one of the kids say it tasted like candy.
yuck
So if butter isn’t injected into it first, a deep-fried ham would be dry??? I can feel my arteries hardening just reading about this.
I think it might would. That cajun butter is tasty stuff. But VERY bad for you. High calorie. Too much salt. Too much fat. I was reading the container trying to figure out if eating the ham would kill me. Too much sugar in it, also. I ate one piece, I figured I could live thru that.
Uhhhhh. No comment.
You are a bad, bad, bad man!
Depends who you ask.
Actually, the deep frying takes out most of the fat from the ham. Watch that video and look how much smaller the ham is when it comes out. What’s left is mostly lean meat. Its not like breading and frying something, where the breading picks up a shipload of oil in the process.
Glad you had a fun family weekend!
Whew! What a weekend. I’ve got the place squared away. Everything is back in place. Cats are noticably miffed. Meeko came down and sat with me for a few minutes. Bear is walking in big circles around me. He’s mad.
The cats are gonna make you PAY!
~VOW
Thanks for the explanation, TruCelt. So now I have to ask: if the process dries out a ham, why deep fry it? Because you can?
Beckdawrek, I’m glad you’ve got the place squared away. I bet you miss your kids, but isn’t that back-to-normal feeling grand? Are the cats miffed because they blame you for Too Many Hoomans or because the cat-whisperer granddaughter is gone?
Son-of-a-wrek says EVERYthing is better fried.
Cats didn’t like all the noise, mostly. I guess. They’ve been in a foul humor all day.
They came down for a treat and were in a better mood tonight. I predict about 3 days of snootiness.
Deep Fry with Impunity!
Given Gatopescado’s sense of humor I was taken aback a bit by this, but after some reflection, I give it a 51% chance that he was talking about the ham.
Beck does your family take a lot of video of these get togethers?
Not asking you to post. Just curious since smart phones make it so easy to capture video.
I wish there was video of my family get-togethers. That was a few years before smartphones. Too late now. We don’t have enough older family left