Originally I was not going to participate in this go around of HHDD. I'm just not a fritter girl. I mean I eat them, the apple ones that are all gooped up with icing and such from the bakery but I wasn't sure I wanted to make them. I was uninspired until I ran across a recipe in a cookbook I bought last week, Kathy Casey's Northwest Table. She is a local chef(but you can buy the book anywhere) and I think she is very inventive. I have two of her cookbooks now and I love them both, if you are a more advanced chef I highly recommed you go out and buy her cookbooks. Anyway, I ran across a recipe for Chanterelle Fritters. The only problem was that these were the kind of fritter where you dip the item(in this case a mushroom) in a batter and fry it....and well, I don't like that kind of fritter. So again I thought I would skip this round. I was running out of time but circumstances changed(it is raining big time...and we were suppose to go to the pumpkin patch) and time opened up. … [Read more...]