Today was quite a rainy day and poor Ken finally became the recipient of whatever has been plaguing the girls and me for the past two weeks. I was able to get my make-up clinical done despite how gross the day ended up being. Good news, Ken is also feeling a bit better than yesterday.
So, on the way home from my clinical, I was able to get off early so I decided to go treat myself to an iced coffee at Starbucks. For some reason on the way to accomplish this goal of starbucks nummers, I started craving jalapeño poppers from Arby's. Granted, I have not had these in years so the craving kind hit me out of the blue. Luckily there is an Arby's by Starbucks so since I was headed in that direction, I decided to make a pit stop first at Arby's. When I get up to the speaker at the drive-thru, the lady tells me those have not been on the menu for a year at least and that all Arby's at this point have deleted it from the menu. Ok. So my first thought is that I could possibly make these little buggards because they only consist of cream cheese, jalapeño, and breading. How hard can they be to make? EXTREMELY. sadface.
I went to the grocery store and bought 12 jalapeños, cream cheese, and hot jalapeño jelly. I already had the breading material at homes. It took me a good 30 minutes to cut, deseed, fill with cream cheese, and then bread the poppers. I put them in the freezer for about 2 1/2 hours to harden. I was looking forward to frying them after dinner. I even ate lighter for dinner so that I could enjoy them.
Like I said earlier, they are harder to make than I originally anticipated. Here is the finished product.
When trying to batter a jalapeño pepper, the skin is too slick and oily to hold the breading and then when frying, the breading falls off into the oil. The thing about this type of finished product is that because the bread is so thin and falling off that the peppers hotness becomes the dominant flavor and therefore, no bueno. I tried creating more of a batter than an egg-wash breading with also trying to get the batter to adhere better by rolling the pepper in cornstarch first. Still did not work.
What happened next kind of surprised me.
I got extremely angry and then heartbroken. I actually cried at the thought of not helping my craving to subside. I have been wanting these things all day long and I could not have them.
"Why did Arby's stop making these?" "Why can't I make them?" "I WANT THESE RIGHT NOW!!! :CRY:!!!!!"
OMG! What in those things was I craving? CRAZY!!! :eek:
Emotional Cravings. Never had one before and it made me feel insane.
Luckily, the crying part help the craving dissipate and now I feel more stable. Also, I will try to find them somewhere else and buy them when I have more money to blow. Problem solved?
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