We started with a whole Murray's Chicken. I like Murray's because they are farm-raised and you can look up the code on the chicken to see where it came from. We butchered the chicken and followed a recipe for Colonel Sander's KFC chicken, but it didn't taste anything like that. It was much better!
About a year ago I had a bad dream about KFC chicken and ever since then I cannot eat it. Mind you, I used to work there when I was in high school. I digress, let me tell you more about the chicken. It was nice and crisp on the outside and juicy on the inside. And the flavor of the meat was so good!
We learned that you need to turn the temperature dial lower when you cook chicken - because the insides take longer to cook than, say, a potato peel. Duh. So by the time the chicken was done, we were all starving. That is why the photo is a little weird. I made cottage cheese/sweet potato gnocchi in a pesto sauce first and our chicken went straight into the gnocchi bowls because everyone wanted to eat all the pesto sauce. So that explains why the chicken is in a bowl of green stuff. The legs were the tastiest pieces and if we do chicken again, I'd look for a pack of just chicken legs I think.
While I was prepping the chicken, the men wanted to see what fried gnocchi was like. We all gave it an enthusiastic thumbs up! Here's a picture. Sorry they look like little turds. You'll have to take my word for it that they were good.
After dinn
er we played a really fun game called Wise and Otherwise. The hot oil sitting in the fryer was too tempting for my husband so he made up some pancake batter to turn into Funnel Cakes. The first try was undercooked and gross (on the right). Second batch was much better (left). You can see them side by side here.
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