A thread in honor of the new 2008 MLB season!
Let's start things off with a recipe in honor of the Detroit Tigers new third baseman, Miguel Cabrera (AKA Migs).
Now I do not know if this American recipe is similar to the venezuelan recipe...but he supposedly loves corn fritters.
Corn Fritters
Corn Fritters
PREP TIME 10 Min
COOK TIME 20 Min
READY IN 30 Min
SERVINGS & SCALING
Original recipe yield: 1 dozen fritters
INGREDIENTS
3 cups oil for frying
1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon white sugar
1 egg, lightly beaten
1/2 cup milk
1 tablespoon shortening, melted
1 (12 ounce) can whole kernel corn, drained
DIRECTIONS
Heat oil in a heavy pot or deep fryer to 365 degrees F (185 degrees C).
In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, salt and sugar. Beat together egg, milk, and melted shortening; stir into flour mixture. Mix in the corn kernels.
Drop fritter batter by spoonfuls into the hot oil, and fry until golden. Drain on paper towels.
), and pizza. In Detroit pizza is ever present, as the family who owns both our baseball and ice hockey teams also owns a big chain of pizza restaurants. They also sell roasted nuts, cotton candy, caramel popcorn, etc. Nothing as dramatic as the nuclear hot pasties (at least the meat pies sound like our pasties? 
). Wash it down with pop and/or beer - or at Comerica Park (baseball) they have these huge tropical alcohol drinks like fruit daquiris.