Dinner tonight - or last night.

We were both too busy today to plan dinner so the Rican is picking up take out from PF Changs.

We just got home from a quick dinner out tonight.

Tomorrow I’ll be making Sunday dinner. I’m going to start out with some of the cream of cauliflower soup I made a couple of nights ago, which btw was delicious. Then some oven fried chicken. Not sure if I’ll serve it with a potato or rice dish.

OK - thanks for that.

So, excessive donut eating at a carnival?

oven fried chicken? tell more. (me, I roast chicken, period, but enjoy knowing more.)

I followed this recipe once before and it wasn’t too bad, it’s not exactly fried chicken but they all liked it. Who knows, it’s early, I may change my mind and make something else instead.

Oven Fried Chicken

Thanks, now I'm hungry. (my breakfast, a piece of ricotta torte, is thawing)

I think I will make the chicken drum sticks oven fried, then some homemade Mac & Cheese!

it's fun doing it this way

it's homemade Shake N Bake

you can change it up by putting different herbs and spices into the flour

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you can also use it as the first step of homemade chicken wings - do the ovenfry approach - then run the chicken through different sauces

http://www.recipetineats.com/truly-crispy-oven-baked-buffalo-wings-my-wings-cookbook/

http://www.justataste.com/crispy-baked-teriyaki-chicken-wings-recipe/

http://www.justataste.com/crispy-baked-asian-chicken-wings-with-hoisin-glaze/

I saved those/thanks

also looked up how to make teriyaki sauce:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/teriyaki-sauce-recipe.html

I bought twelve drumsticks. Better then cooking a whole chicken, now they can’t fight over who gets the drumsticks!

sew them onto a chicken (I've posted the 8 - legged chicken recipe here a few times)

it's the best surprise

I remember that, though a little vaguely. Very funny..

I'm an oddly happy food involved person today: I've been rearranging my chicken recipes in their various categories. There's one capon recipe there, which has to have it's own place in the universe, a special kind of chicken being closest in my personal category setup; only one place here that I know of ever carries them, but it's a good place. Of course, the leftovers would close down any other room in my small freezer space; I would have to get rid of lots of small jars..

For the very first time, I bought a premade frozen pizza for tonight. My prejudgment says, it's going to be my last. Thin crust.

I like thin crusts (Rome and so on) but they must be good ones.

Our local place, great for years with tasty thin crust, burned it our last time there, and Diane and I complained in unison. I figured it was a new chef, but no. They ended up politely just charging for wine, but it was clearly all business and we were the nutso customers. Not me, I know from pizza, at least as much as they do. I was pleasant too, but we haven't been back for a few months, not in retribution, but we like another two restaurants - all of them too damned far, don't get us started re what is on westside Albuquerque - better.

Plus, like so many places, they have jangle music on the speakers, which pretty much invalidates the rest of the pretty good atmosphere of the place. Diane and I are both hard of hearing, as they say, me worse. It's like human induced restaurant tinnitus.

I'd rather occasional real music.

In Chicago, we tried the thick crust. It was okay, but I still prefer the thin. Thick is too much bread.

I'm putting my homemade mac and cheese in first then the drumsticks. I'm also going to steam some fresh asparagus I found at the market this morning.

looks like it will be a good, kid-friendly and healthy meal

I'm super envious that you can get asparagus already. Not envious enough to move, but envious.

I can get asparagus.
At $4 a lb.?
errr, no thanks.

I remember asparagus, I used to be able to grow it. No idea then how spoiled I was.