But the game food was good

I fucking hate it when we lose, and I really fucking hate it when we lose at home in a playoff game. Fuck. Should I say fuck again? Fuck.

Anyway, the game food was great. We had pigs in a blanket:

We had the obligatory skins:

We had steamed shrimp:

And we had a blooming onion, which I will now teach you how to make. Please, don't thank me. Your visit to this blog is thanks enough.

You will start with the sauce. Take some mayonnaise, some catsup and some horseradish. You can add salt, pepper, Worcestershire, sour cream or whatever, but if you take equal parts of catsup and mayo, mix them up right, and add horseradish to taste, you can't go wrong. Simple is better:

Looks good. Refrigerate it.

Now, get some milk, flour, paprika, thyme, oregano, cumin, pepper, 2 eggs, milk, kosher salt, cayenne, and a large onion:

OK, so take the eggs and a cup of milk and mix it up right:

Take 1-1/2 cups of flour, 1/2 tsp of thyme, 1/2 tsp of oregano, 1/2 tsp of cumin, 1/2 tsp of cayenne, 1 tbsp of paprika, and pepper to taste, and mix it up right:

Now, get that onion, and peel it"

Now you need to cut it. Leave the bottom on it so it will stay together, then slice down through the middle almost all the way through, but not quite:

Do that to halve the onion, then quarter, then eighth, until you have it divided into 16ths, or as low as you can go without turning it into onion slices. Without pulling the onion apart, spread the "petals" so flour and whatnot can get between the layers:

Drop that sucker in the flour mixture and get flour all over everything:

Then put it in the egg mixture, then back in the flour. It should be seriously floured up at this point:

Put it in the deep fryer at top temperature. After about 5 minutes, turn it over and fry it for another 5 minutes.

Serve with the sauce and enjoy.

On the upside, we can still watch the Saints game next week. So game food porn lives!