Kat's
Beer
Batter
Fried
Catfish
2 pounds of fish fillets
3 eggs, slightly beaten
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup beer
3 tablespoons prepared mustard
1/2 to 1 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
2 tablespoons salt, divided
2 teaspoons black pepper, divided
1/2 to 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper, divided, or to taste
3 cups fine yellow corn flour*
vegetable oil or shortening for deep frying
In a mixing bowl, whisk together eggs, milk, beer, mustard, Tabasco, and half of
the salt and peppers. Cut fish fillets into bite sized pieces, or nuggets. Place
fish in egg mixture, coating well; cover, refrigerate, and let soak for about 1
hour. Mix corn flour with the remaining salt and peppers in a shallow, wide bowl
or pie plate.
Not
all people are called to be hermits, but all people need enough silence and
solitude in their lives to enable the deep inner voice of their own true self to
be heard at least occasionally.
-
Thomas Merton