{"id":184881,"date":"2011-12-24T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T16:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/24\/i-just-tried-a-first-in-the-kitchen\/"},"modified":"2011-12-24T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T16:53:00","slug":"i-just-tried-a-first-in-the-kitchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/12\/24\/i-just-tried-a-first-in-the-kitchen\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Tried a First in the Kitchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never cooked fried chicken before, but I did so last night.<\/p>\n<p>Natalie wanted some fried chicken, and, seeing as how it&#8217;s Chanukah, when fried food is traditional, I figured, &#8220;what the heck&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I used a <a href=\"http:\/\/foodallergies.about.com\/od\/recipes\/r\/friedchicken.htm\">gluten free recipe<\/a>, to accommodate Sharon&#8217;s<sup>*<\/sup> sensitivity to wheat.&nbsp; (Corn flake breading was out as well, because she and the kids have problems with that)<\/p>\n<p>It turned out OK. The breading did not stick as well as I would have hoped, but it turned out moist.<\/p>\n<p>One note, I used the beaten egg for the dredge, as opposed to the buttermilk presented as an alternative, kashrus, don&#8217;t you know.<\/p>\n<p>It did involve a gawd awful amount of oil, I had to fill up the skillet about an inch deep to fry the chicken.<\/p>\n<p>(<i>on edit<\/i>)<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t brine,&nbsp; and I used the egg wash, not the buttermilk.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Love of my life, light of the cosmos, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small; font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\">she who must be obeyed<\/span><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve never cooked fried chicken before, but I did so last night. Natalie wanted some fried chicken, and, seeing as how it&#8217;s Chanukah, when fried food is traditional, I figured, &#8220;what the heck&#8221; I used a gluten free recipe, to accommodate Sharon&#8217;s* sensitivity to wheat.&nbsp; (Corn flake breading was out as well, because she and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[976,1012],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}