Beer Batter Sesame ONION RINGS

I normally like to post a photo of my finished product as the first photo you see on my postings. But today... Doesn't that shot wet your appetite for what is to come???

First, exciting news in my blog world... I have been invited to be a weekly regular guest blogger on oUrkRaZyKiTcHeN! If you have never been to Our Krazy Kitchen, it is a fun site that uses the talents of 6 very accomplished individual cooks and bloggers who rotate posting about simple recipes or new recipes or desserts or baking or whatever happens to excite the poster that day.

Come take a look today to support my new adventure, be sure to leave a comment so the girls don't think they made a hideous mistake. Then, take a look through their archives and if you like the idea of the 7 of us, bookmark us, follow us, tweat us or just plan on coming back again! Today, I posted of my first experience with PUFF PASTRY. I share the thrill I receive every time I discover that... I CAN COOK THAT!!!

OK, it takes a little effort, but these are the best onion rings I have ever eaten.

As always, first, assemble the ingredients...

2 onions, sliced about 1/4 inch thick and separated into rings
3 cups flour (separated into two batches)
2 TBS Sesame Seeds (I used a mix of white and black seeds)
1 TBS kosher Salt
1 bottle of Killians Irish Red beer (well, not the whole bottle, and feel free to use your own personal beer of choice)
Enough Canola oil to fill 3/4 inch of your heavy frying pan

Mix 2 cups of the flour and the Sesame seeds and salt together in a bowl. Add enough beer to make a pancake like batter.

Heat your oil up. Do the water drop test to see if it is hot enough. Sprinkle a couple drops of water into the oil. If it pops and splatters, it is ready (JUST A COUPLE DROPS).

Set up a little assembly line, or your kitchen will be a mess, and your wife will be pissed (or worse than that, you will have to clean up yourself).

• Coat a few rings in the set aside 1 cup of flour.
• Coat in the batter
• Fry em up. Like Julia says about mushrooms, "Don't crowd the rings".
• They cook fast, flip them after 2 minutes, and finish with a second 2 minute cook
• Remove from the oil and let them drain on a couple paper towels
• Try to eat just one
  

I paired these with yesterday's Bacon Wrapped CHICKEN CALZONE (again).

What do you think...

How long would a plate of these last at your New Year's eve party???

How about that Super Bowl party next month (go Saints)???

I even bet a big batch of these at the next church potluck would tempt a few teetoatalers. Strike a blow for liberty and make more Beer Batter Sesame Onion Rings!!!