The phrase "a bit of frying" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a small amount of frying, typically in the context of cooking or food preparation.
Example: "For this recipe, you only need a bit of frying to achieve the perfect texture for the vegetables."
Alternatives: "a little frying" or "some frying".
But there was no sign of him, only an oblique reference in a bit of Fry patter.
I was mostly a television boy and enjoyed The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The film is planned for release in winter 2014, good news for those nostalgic for the days of A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster.
Intermittently between 1987 and 1995 he again collaborated with Laurie to produce the popular television program A Bit of Fry and Laurie, in which the duo enacted a set of typically disconnected, although not always unrelated, comical sketches.
Thirty years ago he used a similar one in A Bit of Fry and Laurie when the double act did a sketch about two testosterone-charged, Uttoxeter-based health club entrepreneurs.
According to a recent survey published in the London Times, the British are also suffering a bit of fry-pan phobia, with restaurant spending there up more than a third in the last five years.
Their BBC sketch show A Bit of Fry & Laurie ran for four series from 1989 and the double act then took the lead roles in ITV's Jeeves and Wooster.
After striking up a partnership in the Cambridge Footlights, Fry and Laurie became one of the foremost comedy double acts in Britain during the 1980s and 1990s; their hugely popular sketch show A Bit of Fry and Laurie made them into national figures.
Fry would never have been a Twillionaire without the extraordinary body of work – and fans – he has built up over the past three decades, from BBC Radio 4 panel games such as Whose Line Is It Anyway? and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue to the TV shows A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Jeeves and Wooster, QI and the various incarnations of Blackadder.
There's a fair bit of frying involved, but the eggplant and pita bread can be baked if you'd prefer to go easy on the oil.
