Cook like the Fair: Robinson Ferry's Smoked Brisket Cheddar Fries

Robinson Ferry Co-owner and Executive Chef Ryan Grimm shows us how to make four of their State Fair-inspired items: Deep-Fried Elvis, Smoked Brisket Cheddar Fries and two cocktails. These items will be available at Robinson Ferry Oct. 15-25, 2020.
Posted 10/14/2020, 1:00:00 PM Updated 10/8/2020, 7:38:06 PM

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My name is Ryan Grim and on the chef owner

here Robinson Berry in warrants in North Carolina

What I'm gonna miss most about the state fair this

year is getting to jump from foods

All the food stall on all the deliciousness that entails

here for our NC state fair menu way have our

caramel apple dream with caramel apples

We have our monkey business cocktail with deep fried bananas

Way have our fried Elvis bananas with chocolate caramel and

peanut butter dipping sauce

And then we have smoked brisket fries

We hope you guys join us

And don't miss the state fair

Too much is you enjoy all these delicious items

All right you guys

Now we're gonna make our Elvis fried banana wontons gonna

start off with some banana place that right in the

center of her wanton rapper followed by a little bit

of bacon followed by a little bit of chocolate

Keep a little egg wash going all the way around

Gonna wrap this up

We're gonna toss in the deep fryer served with peanut

butter cream little peanut butter dipping sauce on

There we go

All right You guys want to drop our our banana

peanut butter chocolate wontons and

hey you guys

Now we're gonna go ahead and make our brisket fries

Um to me nothing says state fair more than fried

food and smoked meat

So we're gonna start with a layer of cheddar cheese

Want to get on some of our smoked brisket I

just I just top that off a little more cheese

and throw the smoker And then when it comes out

we're gonna top it with some green onions

Yeah

All right let's go ahead and four fries out on

top of more grain onions

All right you guys we're going to go ahead and

make our monkey business cocktail for our state fair menu

when I start with a chocolate rimmed martini glass

and we're gonna set that over on our plate of

deep fried bananas with chocolate sauce

All right we're going to add 1.5 ounces of Godiva

chocolate

The court 1.5 ounces of creme de banana

Three ounces of half and half Can you hear And

we're gonna shake that all over ice

and poor

It's monkey business time

All right you guys let's go ahead and make our

candy apple dream

Do a caramel apple rim on a coupes glass

Put that with our caramel chocolate apples

All right we're gonna do one ounce of apple pucker

One ounce of whipped vodka One ounce of butter snaps

Okay Stephen

Ounces of cranberry juice

It's good

Yeah

Mhm

Nice

And we're gonna shave that

Okay on

There we go

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