The Fried Chicken to Make All Other Fried Chickens Jealous

Well here it is! The best fried chicken you will have ever eaten! 

We get a cooking magazine called Bon Appetite, and their cover story was fried chicken. It just looked so good I couldn't resist! So me, Morgana Banana, and my sister, Meara Tempura, decided to make some for our family on the Superbowl!

Oh the greasy goodness! 

We started out with a dry rub over night. The rub consisted of salt, pepper, cayenne, paprika, onion powder, and garlic powder. The next day, we set up a dredging station with a buttermilk mixture and a seasoned flour mixture. Dip in wet, dip in dry, drop in oil! Fry at 325 degrees F for 10 min for wings and 12 min for other pieces, turning every 2 min. 

It was the juiciest chicken I ever sunk my teeth into! The seasoning was perfect, and the skin was wonderfully crisp (but not too crisp). 

Go make some of your own! Right now! Go! :)

and there was more!

Mmmm k. Well, it's late, really late on a Saturday night and I can't sleep, so great news for this blog! It must have been that late night nibbling on the half piece of chocolate toffee coffee fudgy cake left over for someone who was not me. But don't worry I didn't eat all of it. :)

I'm sure all two of you (yes I'm talking to you Morganna and Stinky Feet -oops did I just say that?? oh well!! I love you Meara!!) are so anticipating the next instalment of the mini dinner we did, right? :P

So, here below in not so much detail as the last post, are some of the rest of our creations that night!

The mini pizzas are what you see on the top there. Really awesome quick pizza dough recipe is

what we used. We rolled it out pretty thin, used a little circle cutter and cut tons of rounds out. They looked so cute lined up on the greased trays! On went pesto, little bits of sundried tomatoes, chopped up green onions, and we topped with Parmesan. SOOoo yummy! Except I think I could have baked them a little less.. What a surprise. :P

Dessert!!! yay. NOW we're getting to the real part of things. You see here an almond tuile with chocolate mousse - and most were drizzled with sour cherry compote. I thought they did pretty well - but being me there could have been more chocolate - like a fudgy piece of cake or brownie somehow stuck in there! But anyhow they were so much fun to make. Forming the almond tuiles and maintaining their shape when they just came out of a 425 degree oven has its' perks in that your hands are consistently developing a higher pain threshold for each time!

Because my mom absolutely loves strawberries and cream - a shortcake kind of thing, as well as cheesecake with strawberries, my option was to go with a roll (as you can see below), wrapped up with strawberry compote and aricotta cheesecake (baked in a separate dish, then spread on). Such a great not-too-heavy-dessert following that kind of dinner, we found.

And last but definitely not least - the applecran cheese slice. These were so good! We tried them the next day... and yes, I think chilling them does help enhance the taste a teeny bit. So simple, good and perfect when you`re in the mood for a little bite but not a whole tart! Below you can see the process...

et voila! There were a few more things we made, but unfortunately no pics :(

Ah I`m tired now. I think bed will work this time!