Chicken Cracklin

[MotherOfGizmo]

OK, so Now my favorite pork skin company is making fried chicken skins (cracklin) I bought a bag this morning thinking they'd be yummy. I have made them at home and loved them. Something is just not right about them, they're kinda creeping me out and I can't figure out why. Anyone else tried them?

[cajunthunder]

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I haven't seen those before. Are they any good? Is it just fried chicken skin and is it puffy?

Dumb question, but do y'all have pork cracklins in your neck of the woods? Not pork skins, but the chunks of skin, fat and some lean, all deep fried? God I love those and luckily they sell them at many corner stores around here. Oh man I think I might need to make a trip up the road and get some!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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Yep, we have pork cracklin's and fried fat back too...yummy stuff!

I'm not real big on these chicken cracklins though, I think they need to be fried in a little hotter oil and a little longer, I think this is new for them. The company has a website but they don't have the chicken listed the name of the company is Wallace's Old Fashioned, I love their wash pot cracklins with hot pepper. You can break your teeth on those babies. LOL

[cajunthunder]

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Oh I hear ya on the hard cracklins! I swear sometimes I hear that crack in my mouth and wonder if I lost part of a tooth!

One store I buy them at also serves Boudin (a Cajun food - sausage casings stuffed with rice, ground meat, etc), and the first time I bought a pound of cracklins, the lady asked me if I'd like some boudin too. I don't like the stuff, but I just said, "No thank you, I'm on a diet!" as I stuffed a cracklin in my mouth. The look on her face was absolutely priceless!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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I know LOL, being on a "diet" and eating cracklins really confuses most folk! I sure would love to be where you are for some nice spicey cajun cooking!

[cajunthunder]

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I know LOL, being on a "diet" and eating cracklins really confuses most folk! I sure would love to be where you are for some nice spicey cajun cooking!

Come on down! Biggest problem with Cajun food is that most of it is served with rice. I went to a restaurant with my sister a couple of weeks ago and ordered a bowl of seafood gumbo, without the rice. The waitress says, oh you want the rice on the side? I said, No, no rice at all. She was very confused by that request! LOL!

[MotherOfGizmo]

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Yea, I remember that to be the case. I've been to New Orlean's about 10 times. I could really go for some crawdads. You can't get them fresh here, they sell them in the seafood section already cooked so they're cold and rubbery. The shrimp we got in New Orleans were so big they were like baby lobsters LOL I am a seafood freak so I could survive on steamed or boiled seafood, they can keep the rice!

[mrslee44]

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I'm getting so hawgry thinking about the home made cracklins my Mama used to make.
I usually just buy the spicy ones and dip in that 1 gram of carb blue cheese dip for a quick snack.

Robin
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[Devi]

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You guys are going to make me run out and have some crawdads! Surprisingly, I actually found a cajun restaurant here in Toronto where the food actually tastes just like New Orleans! They have this wicked happy hour where all the appetizers are half price. I usually get several orders of crawdads, some fried gator (which I guess I can't have anymore ), seafood fondue, and fried catfish among other yummies.

Does the flax meal work for frying catfish? I really miss mine, which were dipped in corn meal, of course. How bad is corn meal for Atkins?

[Devi]

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Grrr. Just looked up corn meal :
Food Item: Cornmeal, yellow
Food Quantity: 1 cup
Carbs: 108g
Dietary Fiber: 10.2g
Net Carbs: 97.8g