DAY 5!!!!!!! AMAW/CAMAW - post your menu here!

Your elephant ears are my fried dough. I liked mine covered in powdered sugar, enough so you can't even really see the dough anymore! You just can't have too much.

I've never seen the little fried dough balls before!

Here in NE CT your elephant ears would be our fried dough, the funnel cakes are the same, your fried dough is called fritters (though if you are making quahog chowder then they are clam cakes) and well I don't think there is any other way to make Pierogi,

I love clam fritters.

Here, fritters are almost always corn. Just west of here, corn is everywhere. Miles upon miles of corn. And, soybeans... but mostly corn.

I hate corn fritters.

Sorry, but my old family recipe for pierogi, straight from Poland, are boiled only, then drenched in butter!

I love quahogs!!! I know they are used for chowder but I love the chewiness of them. I eat them on the 1/2 shell.

Well now I know what an elephant ear looks like! The fried dough look like zeppolis, the kind they have in the pizza shop, but come on, you know fried dough should look like a donut with icing & sprinkles on top.

Girl, when I lived in Manhattan, I lived on pizza, bagels with cream cheese and street hot dogs.

I was never fancy enough to get the zeppolis unless some guy took me on a date. Of course, some weird guys find it a bit of a turn-off when their date can out-eat them.

Theicture of your Elephant Ear is what we call fried dough out here. It's just about the only variety we see.

Fried Oreos, Twinkies, Reeses Cups, etc are all the rage out here now. I tasted a fried Reese's at the local fair last year it was worth killing for.

The fair is back in town at the end of June -- when Sparklekitty is in town.

That's just great Grim! Thanks for making me drool!

What you call an elephant ear my Italian mother called "pizza freet" and you sprinkled it with sugar, or as I always did, loaded it with sugar..... oh the head hunger.

*edtied to change "elephant eat" to "elephant ear". Haha.