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How to Make Great Fried Chicken

Learning how to fry chicken was a breeze, thanks to a friend's favorite recipe that inspired such confidence, even for a beginner, I call it Rock-Star Fried Chicken . But cooking great fried chicken is more than a good recipe, it's technique too. Here are the tips and tricks that I've learned along the way, how I turn 'good' fried chicken into 'great' fried chicken every single time. FRIED CHICKEN COOKING TIPS GOOD FRIED CHICKEN Any one can be a fried-chicken rock star! It’s hard to fry a bad batch of fried chicken – frankly, it’s all good! All these tips make it 'look' like frying chicken is hard. It’s not, it’s really not. I wish I’d started frying chicken many Sundays ago. GREAT FRIED CHICKEN 'Great' fried chicken is a matter of taste. My taste – my ideal, my idea of perfect fried chicken – leans to a 'crispy flavorful crust'. So all these fried chicken cooking tips are geared that direction. CHICKEN P

This Year, Celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving

Canadian readers, you're so lucky. October is such a civilized month to celebrate Thanksgiving and over a long weekend, no less. (The official date for Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October but many celebrate on the Saturday or Sunday.) Many of you are likely turkey-deep in planning, even cooking, this year's Thanksgiving menu. Imagine, luxuriating in the tradition of Thanksgiving, at the height of autumn, a full six weeks before the Christmas busy-ness begins. But American readers? There are so so many reasons why we should celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving too. So far, I count 13. Read on! Thanksgiving Food Traditions, Menus, Recipes and More.

Hamburger Soup Recipe

Comfort food at its best, a hearty, old-fashioned soup cooked right on the stove with meaty chunks of ground beef and a cornucopia of bright-colored vegetables, all laced with just the right amount of noodles. I've been making this soup for, what, thirty years? It's no wonder, it's that good! So if you've got 20 minutes plus an hour to simmer, prepare for happy eaters around your table! Homemade Soup, Made from Scratch. Belly-Warming During Cold Weather. A Favorite One-Pot, Budget-Friendly Meal. Kid Friendly. Weight Watchers Friendly. High Protein. Great for Meal Prep & Feeding a Crowd. Rave Reviews.

Recipe for Naturally Sweetened Apple Butter

So get out the butter and put away the sugar, we're going to make apple butter, real apple butter, the "slow food" approach to homemade apple butter. In this recipe, the apple butter is naturally sweetened with apple cider, dotted with a little butter for richness and spends a long (loooong!) time in the oven or in a slow cooker. So yes, this apple cider is "sugar free" – or better put, has "no added sugar" and "no sugar substitutes" like Splenda and the like. It's just gorgeous, very apple-y, what apple butter is "supposed to taste like" – I hope you love it! My two burning questions about apple butter. First, why doesn’t apple butter call for – um, well, you know – butter? My recipe does, just a touch, which gives this lovely butterscotch-colored apple sauce, an unctuous mouth feel. After several hours in the oven at low temperature, it’s so smooth, so creamy, it’s on the verge of something akin to custard, al