Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
I’ve done the oven fried chicken with flour . DH likes the shake and bake oven fried because it reminds him of KFC without the grease . It’s the big crusty flakes he likes ..
Ive also done it with breadcrumbs and seasoning too .
Are you referencing Dirty Sally?
We love goulash, created my own recipe but, always interested in any upgrades or hacks.
I put loads of carrots, onion, mushrooms, fresh parsley and tomatoes in mine, like the one dish meals for busy days.
We like fish, mostly baked but, occasionally the fish just needs to be fried, so, you can use crackers that are ground up finely, seasoned with salt and pepper and a little dried dill weed, wash your fish shake off excess water, dredge in cracker crumbs, lay on a greased baking sheet and give it a spray of olive oil. Totally fills the fried fish hunger without all the grease.
You can substitute bread crumbs, shake and bake or the hack to accomplish this.
We really enjoy the Italian on pork, good on chicken but, garlic parm on chicken is the best.
Burnt, your fried chicken must be bland as cardboard ;-)
My fried chicken is soaked for a minimum of 2 days in buttermilk, dredge in seasoned, with garlic, onion, black pepper, paprika, salt and cayenne flour with some baking soda and powder to ensure a fluffy crunchy coating.
Fried chicken is just coated with seasoned flour. What I like to do is make 'oven' fried chicken with Japanese panko breadcrumbs. It cooks up nice.
Shake and Bake has a crispy fried chicken flavor that my DH likes , but it’s expensive . I don’t do it often .
I haven’t tried it yet but my daughter makes a chicken recipe with crushed potato chips when she’s at the bottom of a bag of chips .
The crouton idea sounds good, especially since we tend to not use them fast enough in salads and they go stale .
Get a bag of croutons, let the air out and use your rolling pin to crush fine. They have enough oil that you don't need to dredge your meat in anything for it to stick nicely.
Makes good chicken nuggets too!
Happy birthday way!
Coating your chicken in that made it crispy.
Baking is always better than frying (or deep-frying) your chicken. That is bad for you.
Counting the calories and the price at any fast foods causes my b/p to raise, but I get even hungrier. We're out and about doing errands, and the need to eat strikes me. Now, we just go straight home instead of trying 3 fast foods places-the lines are too long; the place is too dirty; the price is too much.
Bought a steak and shared it at home for $20.00. On a salad made it
'Steak Diane'.
Fast food would have been $30.
Splurging is buying packaged shredded carrots and shredded cabbage to add to the lettuce salad at home, making preparation quicker than fast foods. And making the salad dressing from scratch will save lots. (And it was good.)
That's nice that your son helped you like that. You've got good kids.
@waytomisery
Happy Birthday, my friend. I hope you have the best one ever!
Thanks.
That was sweet of your son to walk behind you .
Thanks !!
Love leftovers.
Everyone's food sounds so good!
Ribs tonight with baked potato with all the trimmings for R, and salad for both of us.
I will, no doubt, end up with enough leftovers of the leftovers for lunch tomorrow.
I feel ya cwillie! :-)
Coffee cake for the weekend is in the oven . Kids are coming up this weekend to take me out for 60th birthday dinner at my favorite place .. No cooking tomorrow .
Bread pudding for dessert. I haven't made one in years. It was a little bland so next time I will jazz it up with more fruit, more spices and maybe a little maple syrup. R said his mother used to make it with molasses.
That's what my Mother used to say to us....and if we said we couldn't do something,she always said to say to ourselves"I think I can ".(like in The Little Red Engine book).
So,
Thanks for the reminder waytomisery and
I'm sorry you and your MIL fell.Falls are evil and do so much damage ,all over,so quick~
way - makes sense - like waiting for the other shoe to drop
nacy - never heard that before. Hope your back gets better soon.
boj - sounds very comforting
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My fortune cookie says
“ Success is getting up just one more time than you fall down . “
At first I took the “ fall down “ literally .
I guess my mind went there because we are waiting for MIL to fall down again . 🙄🙄.
I never get tired of cooking, I get tired of cleaning up the mess I make cooking.