I actually LOVE the idea of a recipes thread
I can imagine that some of the spicy, saucy folks here on DA are darned good cooks! I love to cook! One of the most the favored activities of hubby and I is to feed friends until they need to unhook their belts!
I am a certified Yankee....but, I'd bet you'd have a hard time beating my BBQ sauce. No kidding! It's a recipe gifted to me by a wonderful woman who ran a diner I used to haunt in my punk rock bartending days. We all called her Miss Hubert, so that ought to clue you in to the autheticity. I've tweaked it very little as iy was near perfection before. It's a Memphis (the city not the design-collective) style red sauce that is spicy, sweet, tangy and rich all in one bite. Great on chicken, pulled pork, ribs or poured over a burger.
Ya'll want me to post it?
By the way, how's your mama an them?
Frying in butter?
Maybe sauteeing, but for frying you need a fat that can get hot without smoking. Butter burns at a relatively low temperature. I think even if you clarify it, it's still not ideal for frying.
If you have to drain the fat off the finished chicken, the frying fat was not hot enough. Oil at the right heat will cook the outside quickly so that it cannot soak up excess oil. If too cool, the oil will soak into the batter and you'll have a greasy mess.
Same with french fries, onion rings, fritters, donuts, etc. (Not that I ever eat that stuff. Nope, never, no how. I swear.)
Haven't had fried chicken in...
Haven't had fried chicken in ages! Looks sooooo good... mmmmhhhhh
I would need some easy made healthy sides.... Organic ideal.... Steamed Asparagus and Carrots, then sauteed in a butter maple syrup blend. Nice contrast against the earthy asparagus and bland carrots. Easy to over do this, so start small, adding until al dente.
Mashed potato's...boil 4 small golden potato's for about 30 minutes. Drain water when potato's are easily poked with a fork. Add about a tablespoon butter using a mixer, blend...add milk to desired consistency.
Buttery I know...but it's in my Scandinavian blood. Get back if there's something chocolate for desert!
Haven't had fried chicken in...
Haven't had fried chicken in ages! Looks sooooo good... mmmmhhhhh
I would need some easy made healthy sides.... Organic ideal.... Steamed Asparagus and Carrots, then sauteed in a butter maple syrup blend. Nice contrast against the earthy asparagus and bland carrots. Easy to over do this, so start small, adding until al dente.
Mashed potato's...boil 4 small golden potato's for about 30 minutes. Drain water when potato's are easily poked with a fork. Add about a tablespoon butter using a mixer, blend...add milk to desired consistency.
Buttery I know...but it's in my Scandinavian blood. Get back if there's something chocolate for desert!
And
Don't fail to recognize the cruelty of factory farming, which is how most grocery store and restaurant chickens are raised and slaughtered. If you buy chicken, I hope you make an effort to find a local farm whose humane (relatively) practices and policies you can observe for yourself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPaxE9ouHpI
Guess what Brent....
In Canada, KFC is actually PETA approved:
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/canada_kfc_victory
Looking through
my i-photos and flickr, i tend to pic many of our meals.
New Orleans was home for years. Lived in Austin and Memphis.
Chicken fried chicken, gumbo, killer bbq.
I'm on the road now but miss our sunday rotis wood-fired chicken,
stuffed with garlic and rosemary. Organic.
Olive. My bbq sauce has rhubarb and homemade maple syrup. Lots of vinegar
reduced to a syrup and very spicy...
We seldom eat out.
Grilling on the beach tomorrow, shrimp and scallops, local tomatoes and
mozzarella salad. BLT for breakfast. Homemade yogurt-non-fat, spiced up with
Wabash and mustard. (trying to keep butter and fat out of the diet)
except for the bacon... compromises.
(internet here is nill or one bar. I've lost many posts)
I live in NYC but working out on Long Island.
rockland
I just got a rotisserie attachment for my BBQ. Would you consider sharing your recipie?
That photo brought back memories of my childhood. I actually haven't had rotis chicken since. My dad used to make it, and when he passed away 17 years ago, he took his recipie with him.
And Olive, yes please post that Memphis BBQ sauce recipie! I am going to devote some time to try all these new recipies out!
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