Vacation in Indy

We had a marvelous time. Only managed to sleep late once, discovered the joys of Mexican bakeries and ate oursleves completely silly.

Sea Potatoes

1 lb small new or fingerling potatoes well scrubbed
1/4 cup sea salt or kosher or uniodized salt
Water

Place the potatos in a single layer in a large sauce pan. Add the salt and enough water to cover them by 1 inch and bring to a boil. Cook until tip of knife inserted into largest potato slips in easily. Drain almost all of the water (leave enough to barely cover the bottom of the pan) and return to heat to evaporate the remaining water. Stir very gently to help a salt crust form on each potato. Serve piping hot with just a bit of butter.



New Fry Batter

2 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt, pepper and paprika
1 tsp baking powder
1 3/4 cup milk

Mix all ingredients quickly and well. Dip things you want to fry into the batter and fry them. We liked-green tomato slices, turkey breast chunks, chicken breast chunks, haddock (which we used in fish tacos) and mushrooms. Pretty much anything you could think of. Yum!



Chicken Paprikash

4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves cut into strips
1 1/2 cups of flour
1/2 tsp each salt, pepper and paprika
1/4 real butter
1/2 cup vegetable oil
8 oz package sliced mushrooms
4 cups chicken broth
1/4 paprika
2 cups sourcream