Yummmm. bluesgirl just made Indian Frybread.

[bluesbassman]

Probably should call it Native American Frybread to be PC, but that just don't sound right.

I had mine with some salsa and refried beans. Also very tasty with some powdered sugar and cinnamon as a dessert.

Anybody else have some good ethnic food recently?

[siligut]

1. Fry bread is so good

They serve it at fairs and tourist sites in New Mexico. I haven't tried making it at home.

[bluesbassman]

2. A bit of trial and error to get the dough right, Also the oil temp is pretty critical.

Just a lot of work rolling 'em out. Worth it though!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

3. Is that the same as "fried dough?"

That stuff was like crack to my dad...he asked my mom to make it all the time. Don;t know how to describe it other than literally...she'd just make a little fat pancake out of bread dough and fry it in oil.

[bluesbassman]

5. Probably. It's just flour, baking powder, salt, and water.

They roll lumps of the dough into a ten inch disk and toss that into the oil in a cast iron skillet. It was a staple in my wife's family's diet back in the day. Now it's more of a treat. They are pretty addictive though. :)

[Amerigo Vespucci]

8. Yep, sounds the same, and if I remember correctly, she made it in a cast iron skillet too...

[Kali]

4. I like it plain

but good as an Indian Taco too - also with honey. mmmmmm

my old recipe calls for a little powdered milk in the dough


We eat northern Mexican all the time - hardly seems ethnic to me. I did make "Chinese" broccoli beef the other day. Hmmm other than that probably the last was some kind of chicken curry.

[bluesbassman]

6. Absolutely. About two minutes after they come out of the skillet.

Just enough time for the oil to drain off and not so hot that fry your tongue. :P

I'll mention the powdered milk, makes them a little lighter?

[Kali]

7. I have no idea what it does - never made it without

on the other hand I haven't made it in ages - so dangerous! I mean *FRIED* *BREAD* droool

[nolabear]

9. LOVE Indian tacos made with frybread.

I'm sure it's the road to hell but what a way to go!

(Btw "Indian" is mostly okay as long as you're not being rude about it)

[bluesbassman]

10. That's the cool thing. They are versatile!

Yeah, some people get their nose out of joint on it. My wife's family pretty much all call themselves Indians. The younger ones tend to use NA a little more, but usually it's just "Native".

[old mark]

16. How about...

NDN's...


mark
(just a little bit Osage)

[denbot]

11. Fry Bread is damn addictive.

Indian fry bread is the proper name in the southwest, and the plains as well. Danger: Fry bread is the gateway drug to Navajo Tacos..
You have been warned.

[bluesbassman]

13. Thanks for the heads up. My wife's aunt's also do fried seaweed.

Talk about addictive. :P

Navajo Tacos sound killer. If you make 'em then next time I'm in SoCal I'll be stopping by. :)

[PufPuf23]

12. Hate to be a downer.

Regardless of the positive yummies and current culture, Indian fry bread is post time and a product of European physical and cultural genocide.

[bluesbassman]

14. Perhaps, but everyone in the tribe enjoys it and it is now part of the culture.

I don't disagree that much of what the white man brought to this land was detrimental to the native way of life. However, frybread is just food man. We eat abalone, deer, acorn meal, and seaweed too.

I think the tribes culture is actually doing just fine thanks. Take a look.

[PufPuf23]

15. Did you look at my location in my profile or look at my journal?

I gifted world renewal ceremony/white deerskin dance/pichi'avich sites to the Karuk.

I have lived Indian politics all my life.

I have a BS Highest Honors and Masters from UC Berkeley after graduating Hoopa High School on the Hupa Reservation 40 years ago.

I have life long and multi-generational relations with Yurok and Karuk shaman (as many women as male).

There is a divide in Indian culture in that those that most rejected the natural culture, were educated, and assimilated European and Christian culture are those that have returned to dominate their own people that never left the land.

Frankly, I would rather not have this insight. I was raised and live in old age in Indian country that rejected AIM and don't "pow-wow". American Indians and their lands and their treaties have been treated like shit and enabled by Indians that looked to personal interests even under Obama -- get serious about Cobell; if it was a win for Indians (absolutely not), but was claimed as a win by POTUS Obama's administration -- Cobell ended the longest ever class action lawsuit (over BIA mal-administration of Indian Trust lands for decades) at pennies on the dollar but gave immediate cash flow to complicit Tribal leaders.

I am a collaborator in an Indian fish hatchery and have worked with the Northern California Basket Weavers since their start (actually long before, I shot porcupines and gathered beargrass and maidenhair fern as a youth for a departed famous basket weaver --one of my Mom's best friends and a baby sitter of me, oral historian to Kroeber and Drucker, and intermitent employee of my parent's general store and resort from the 30s to 50s.

[denbot]

17. Hey bluesbassman is your wife Miwok?

I know some Miwoks, Yocuts, Tachi's from bear dances. One of my buddies dances on the circuit, and I occasionally do a 4 day fast at the begining or end of the Bear Dance season, with some of the people up near Kings Canyon.

[bluesbassman]

18. No, she's Mishewal Wappo.

Napa to the southern edge of Clear Lake.

[Odin2005]

19. I grew up near a Ojibwe reservation and I LOVE frybread.