Neanderpundit

Sunday night we had chicken nuggets.

No, not those processed pieces of offal from McDonalds, but homestyle ones.

These are as simple as hell to make, and are always a good fallback food when you don’t specifically feel like anything else.

I start with one chicken breast per person being fed. You can vary this according to the size of the chicken breast and the size of the people eating.

I slice the breasts lengthwise twice, and across the gran into quarter-size or smaller pieces about 1/4″ thick.

I cut these while they were still a bit frozen; it made it easier to cut them and I put them in a colander to drain off the excess water.

In a large freezer bag I put about a cup of flour and a quarter cup of panko bread crumbs., and some italian seasoning. I took one handful of drained chicken at a time, and put it in the bag, and shook it up until the pieces were well covered.

I repeated this until all the chicken pieces were coated.

I then put 1/8″ of canola oil (you could use about anything) in a teflon pan.I heated it until water sizzled on it.

I fried up the chicken, a handful at a time, turning once so the pieces were golden brown. It took loading and unloading the pan four times to get three large breasts done properly.

The meat has a buttery consistency thus cooked, and you can of course add whatever flavors you want. They go well by themselves as finger food or can be put over rice.

Chicken mcnuggets my ass.

that- based on the pain they were causing me- should have been visible from space.

This morning, I stared at my feet, incapable of comprehending how badly they hurt, and how incongruously normal they looked. I expected to see bulging veins and throbbing pulsing flesh.

Damn, sounded like one of those Harlequin romances there for a moment

Anyway, had the first fire in the fireplace last night, you’re supposed to have three, four firesat low temps to drive off the last of the paint fumes, and then you can go full bore.

This ought to guarantee the warmest winter in years.