Chicken Fried Steak

I love Paula Deen.  She is absolutely hilarious, and I admire how she manages to incorporate mayonnaise into virtually all of her savory dishes. These days, her cooking shows are my distraction of choice if I reach for the TV remote.

Recently, Paula was fixin' to show us how to make yet another Southern favorite, chicken fried steak. It was not until recently that I even knew what exactly this is--I was always slightly perplexed as to how you would fry steak in a chicken--and now that I know what it is, I'm still baffled. And intrigued.

The concept of deep-frying steak seems rather silly to me. After all, a bite of prime rib might just be one of the most succulent things to touch the taste buds, so why would you take something so perfect and plop it in the deep fryer? Well you wouldn't, because it turns out that a really tough cut of beef is used instead...but that's just a minor detail.

I sat there and watched Paula fix her meal, which no doubt made her salivate. And I still think the whole concept of deep-frying steak is an overindulgence of the deep fryer, but you know what? It looked kinda good. Good enough that I think I have to try it, whenever I make it down South. I just hope curiosity doesn't kill this cat!