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Food and Fairs going greener? greasy food leftovers

Food and Fairs going greener? greasy food leftovers

Here is a result of corndogs and other Greener Greasy fair food — besides the wonderful taste and for most of us, the guilt we feel after we eat — is biodiesel. in 2006, the Oregon state fair developed a policy that vendors had to collect leftover grease from which a contractor converts into biodiesel, an average of 2,800 gallons per each fair. This is good but, not eating some of the stuff would be of course better for the average American. Hey here is a new way for us to power things… if we all did this imagine what would happen. Maybe, our cars would pass gas… umm fart. Hey a farting car! I wonder if people realize that corndogs can be used as fuel? What do you think the average teenager would say to that? According to the pyramid of nutrition, each individual’s balanced diet should include eight servings of fruits and veggies daily, six servings of carbohydrates (rice, pasta etc.), four servings of dairy products and two servings of meat products. That also includes drinking eight glasses of water. Food and Fairs going greener greasy sustainable county fairs : Do you see greasy corndogs on the above list? My grandson recently visited and he lived while he was with me, on corndogs, and chicken fingers… primarily. Eat fruit..? Whats that? Of course if he continues to live on that,,, he might get indigestion and not have to go to school. Have you ever had a conversation about good healthy food with an eleven year old? Needless to say what a diet of drinking exclusively cola products can do your growth at that age. People don’t realize how inexpensive and easy it is to make biodiesel fuel. Raw materials cost little — used cooking oil, leftover methanol from chemistry researchers and potassium hydroxide (lye) from the hardware store — the associate professor of chemical and petroleum engineering a can brew up biodiesel for less than $1 a gallon Greener Greasy. Eco-Friendly county fairs Within a year or two perhaps every single one of KU’s diesel-burning vehicles and pieces of equipment — from buses to lawnmowers, tractors and anything else — will run on a B20 blend of fuel (20 percent biodiesel). There are no oil wells in Chicago but there are a lot of restaurants. What did restaurants do before there was bottled cooking oil? The city of San Francisco is on a roll…. plans are now under way to turn the copious amounts of [...]

By |2024-03-26T13:37:23+00:00September 1st, 2008|California, Chicago, Illinois, Oregon, San Francisco|1 Comment
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Around the World with Chicken Wings

Well I have always believed that the United States is the home of chicken wings. I mean what’s more American than sitting down with a basket of crispy wings? Well, it turns out that while we may be the spiritual home, different cultures are adding their flavors. Here are three wing recipes that will give you a bit of international flair without leaving a basic American dish behind. Please try them all and enjoy. I recommend making more than one recipe so that you can have a couple of great flavors at the same time. Around the World with Chicken Wings: Chinese Chicken Wings Start with 18 or about 3 lbs of chicken wings Olive oil 3 green onions cut into 3” pieces ½ c. soy sauce 1/3 c. sherry ½ cup chicken broth (avoid too salty brands like Campbell’s) ¼ c. catsup 3 whole star anise seeds 2 T sugar ¼ t. ground ginger 1 large head iceberg lettuce, shredded. Cut the tips of the wings off at joint and discard. Then cut the remaining two sections at the joint. Heat oil in 5 qt. Dutch oven and sauté wings until golden. Add about 2/3 of the green onion pieces. Stir constantly. Reduce heat. Remove wings so as to pour off excess oil then return wings and onions to the pot. Add soy sauce, sherry, chicken broth, catsup, anise, sugar and ginger. Cover and simmer 25 minutes, stir occasionally. Uncover and cook 10 minutes longer, stirring frequently (until almost all liquid is absorbed and wings are tender. Serve warm or cold on a bed of lettuce leaves. Garnish with remaining green onion pieces. Japanese Chicken Wings Start with about a dozen wings (about 2 1/3 lbs) 1 medium clove garlic 1 piece of fresh ginger (about 1”x1”), peeled ½ c. Japanese rice wine (sake) ½ c. soy sauce ¼ c. firmly packed light brown sugar ¼ t. dried hot red pepper flakes Remove the tips from the chicken wings and discard. Cut through the remaining two joints to separate. Place one 1-gallon plastic bag inside another and place the wings inside. Place the bags (and their contents) in a large bowl. To make the marinade, drop the garlic and the ginger through the feed tube of a food processor with the metal blade in place and the motor running. Process until finely chopped, about 10 seconds. Scrape down the work bowl, add the remaining ingredients, and process for 5 seconds. Pour the marinade over the bagged [...]

By |2024-03-26T13:56:03+00:00August 25th, 2008|Chicken|1 Comment
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I have been invited to a Cricket Spitting Contest

This is a real county fair event. I am always on the look out for something different. Aren’t we all? This is definitely different Cricket Spitting Contest. You put a dead cricket in your mouth and see how far you can spit it. Sounds delightful, doesn’t it? It sure would be a big draw at a state fair. Even children under nine can do this. Cricket Spitting was developed in 1996 by entomolgist Tom Turpin at Purdue University in West Lafayette, IN. rules are simple: Competitors stand in a red circle, place thawed crickets inside their mouths and, spitting them as far as possible without stepping outside the circle. The official Guinness world record is 30 feet, 1.2 inches. The unofficial record from the Purdue Bug Bowl is 37 feet, 9.75 inches. I have been invited to a Cricket Spitting Contest Dead crickets, with no chocolate coating, fly further if launched head-first. I guess this is a sport not to be taken lightly – ” Chicago — A 23-year-old man suffered fatal injuries when he fell from his Mt. Prospect balcony during a spitting contest with his friends, police in northwest suburb said Tuesday.” ah, of course he was also drinking. The contest I was invited to is at the Florence County Fair in Wisconsin. However, I believe I will decline this one. Did anyone get a good watermelon seed-Cricket Spitting Contest? Cricket Spitting @ the Florence County Fair! That’s right. . . you come and put a cricket spitting world record in your mouth and see how far you can spit it. Here are the rules: 1.) The farthest cricket wins. 2.) The cricket must remain in tact. 3.) You have 10 seconds from the moment the cricket is in your mouth until the time you spit it. 4.) There are three age groups: – 9 & under – 10-14 – 15 & up 5.) The top three spitters in each age group receive a medal.

By |2024-03-27T11:01:21+00:00August 18th, 2008|Contests, Insects, Wisconsin|0 Comments
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Corndogs?

Welcome to the Iowa State Fair, where the CornDogs Rules! The Iowa State Fair offered free admission this year from 5am to 8:30am on opening day of the Fair. They also offered free corn dogs with the free admission. Campbell’s Concessions cooked the corn dogs and Sysco provided the hot dogs. Where did the corn dog come from? Its a good question, and there is some confusion about that. Carl and Neil Fletcher say they introduced their “Corny Dogs” at the Texas State Fair between 1938 and 1942. A food vendor called Pronto Pup claims they invented the corn dog for the Minnesota State Fair 1941. 1946, Dave Barham opened the first location of Hot Dog on a Stick at Muscle Beach, Santa Monica, California. I suppose we will never know where the corn dog came from. It is however an American staple. I know my eleven-year-old grandson thinks so. The following recipe comes from Cooks.com\ The CornDogs Showdown CORN DOG BATTER 6 c. cornmeal 3 c. plain flour 2 1/2 tsp. soda 1 1/2 tsp. salt 2 tbsp. sugar 3 c. buttermilk 2 1/2 c. water 2 eggsIn large mixing bowl mix all dry ingredients. Add buttermilk and water. Beat in eggs and mix well. If batter gets stiff add small amount of water. Roll prepared weiner in batter and fry in deep hot oil until browned.To prepare corn dog, use wieners right out of the package; insert stick and coat wiener by rolling it in the batter. Hold on to stick. Leftover batter may be kept a few days in the refrigerator. Can be made into cornbread by adding a little more liquid corn dog history.

By |2024-03-27T11:12:01+00:00August 9th, 2008|Corn Dog, Fair Food, Iowa, Recipe, State Fair|0 Comments
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Lets make Funnel cakes

Hello, Karen here, do you have an interest in those sweet sticky yummy (not so good for you) funnel cakes. They signal the county or state fair. Actually, there isn’t as much sugar in them as I thought. They are fried in oil… maybe before you buy some you could ask the person you are buying them from what they cooked them in. Anyway here is a recipe I found online… if you have a recipe that is different we would love to hear from you. Funnel Cake Recipe courtesy Alton Brown Show: Good Eats Episode: Choux Shine 1 cup water 3/4 stick butter (6 tablespoons) 1 tablespoon sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt 1 cup flour 1 cup eggs, about 4 large eggs and 2 whites Vegetable oil, for frying Powdered sugar, for topping. Boil water, butter, sugar, and salt together in a saucepan. Add flour and work it in until it is all incorporated and dough forms a ball. Transfer mixture to the bowl of a standing mixer and let cool for 3 to 4 minutes. With mixer lowest speed, add eggs, 1 at a time, making sure the first egg is completely incorporated before continuing. Once all eggs have been added and mixture is smooth, put dough in a piping bag fitted with a number 12 tip. Heat about 1 1/2 inches of oil in a heavy pan. Pipe dough into oil, making a free-form lattice pattern; cook until browned, flipping once. Remove cake from oil, drain on paper towels, and top with powdered sugar. Continue until all of the batter is used.

By |2019-03-08T01:20:16+00:00June 9th, 2008|Fair Food, Food, Funnel Cake|1 Comment
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Not All Grant Programs Are From The Government

A lot of all Grant Programs have been started by organizations, foundations and other entities to bring a greater awareness to something or some subject. Let’s take for example one of the more unusual grant programs that are out there. Did you know that there is a grant program to help increase the awareness of harness racing? Yes that’s right – harness racing – you know horses and stuff! Not only the government that has All grant programs You see this is what I talk about when I say that you just can’t imagine the spectrum of different grant programs that are out there. Now the one I mention above is offered by an All Grant Programs organization to bring a greater awareness to harness racing. But it also wants to bring greater attention to the county fairs that are held all over the United States! But not just fairs are eligible for the grant program. Past recipients of this grant program have been horsing associations, various agricultural societies and even a historic race track has also received this grant. Unfortunately this particular grant program requires that the applicants have matching funds but if your organization can raise $5,000 then your organization is eligible to apply for this grant which will award an additional $5,000. This grant money has been used to pay for advertising and even for the creation of a website to help further promote the organization’s fair. This particular grant program started just last year but because it became so popular the organization decided to add additional grant amounts to their program.

By |2024-03-27T11:19:31+00:00July 9th, 2007|Grants|0 Comments
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Hotdogger relishes sweet ride

One big Hot Dog (June 23, 2007) — Hot dog, Matthew Mitchell is on a roll. Hotdogger Relishes Sweet Actually, to be precise, he’s in a roll. Twenty-three years old, a freshly minted graduate of the University of Missouri, the Rochester resident has hit the road as an Oscar Mayer Wienermobile driver, a so-called “hotdogger.” As a hotdogger, he’s driving one of six 27-foot long vehicles that are, essentially, large hot dogs on wheels. Hotdogger Relishes Sweet Ride He’ll travel to state fairs, county fairs and festivals to listen to thousands of people sing Oscar Mayer Wiener jingles, as part of a nationwide “Sing the Jingle, Be a Star.” Winners get a spot in an Oscar Mayer commercial as well as a trip to the next American Idol finale. Mitchell has other duties, too, everything from setting up at each stop to making ceremonial visits with the Wienermobile. Visit their Website! “You have to wear many hats along the Hot Dog Highway,” Mitchell says.

By |2024-03-27T15:51:41+00:00June 24th, 2007|Hot Dogs|0 Comments
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Snuffy’s Magical Clown Review

Snuffy\'s Clown Review Snuffys Magical Clown Review has been a family-oriented act since 1972. Started by Archie Searle and Keith Hall, the project encompassed their family, including 9 members county fair. Eventually, Hall left, and Archie and his son Michael kept the tradition alive in San Francisco and then Nevada.   Snuffys Magical Clown Review  Today Michael Searle and his wife Karen star as "Mouse and Daisy" They are featured across the United States performing for a variety of venues including, state and county fairs, libraries, malls, schools, restaurants, corporate events, and private functions. They do between 300 and 500 performances each year. In addition to their work as performers, Michael and Karen are the primary managers for the Maricopa County Fair. That fair nearly went bankrupt until Michael and Karen stepped in to save the fair in 2004. The fair is now on a solid financial footing and is self-supporting. To find out more about Snuffy's Magical Clown Review, visit their website listed below: http://www.snuffysclowns.com/

By |2024-03-27T15:03:44+00:00June 4th, 2007|Clowns, County Fair, Maricopa|0 Comments
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