Speaking of Food
Speaking of food, I made this chicken last night, while Deb made mashed, carrots, and peas to go with it. It came out about the best it ever has.
I got it overly spicy; rounded up amounts of the spices that are already at the hot side and could be reduced to taste. So I ended up using at least half again as much brown sugar; might have even been double. That made it the perfect sweet and hot mix, and made it cook onto the chicken perfectly.
On another note, I recently made a variant of my fried checken strips recipe, trying to keep is simpler and make it even faster cooking by making nuggets instead of strips. Instead of a flour coating, egg mix, then oatmeal, Bisquick and spice mix, I drowned them in an egg mix, made an oatmeal, Bisquick and spice mix, put the coating in a large, zipper style food bag, tossed in all the soaked nuggets, and shook.
The problem was the oatmeal hadn’t crushed well and the Bisquick tended to be the main thing to stick. I decided next time the oatmeal will get ground in the food processor, so it’s grainier than flour or Bisquick, but will coat more effectively. Other than that, the “shake ‘n’ fry” method seemed useful. It was also excellent, and amazingly fast cooking, as nuggets. The cool thing is you can take the basic idea and go not spiced at all, Italian seasoned, super hot with stuff like red pepper, or whatever you like.
...I recently made a variant of my fried checken strips recipe...
Please tell me this isn’t cannibalism involving either Czechoslovakians or Chechens. Please!
Posted by King of Fools on 03/17 at 09:01 PM
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