The new year in food

Potatoes and onions for the breakfast tortilla (Spanish thing that's like a frittata) are on the stove, as is the pot of chicken bones and feet for the stock for the soup I was gonna make for sogwife yesterday, but she was too sick to eat.

Tonight begins the Mom Food Project. Today's mom food is her fried chicken. I talked to her about the details yesterday, and I'll see if I can come close to duplicating it. It's one of the only things of hers that I've not made very much myself, so I'm flying a little blind here.

So Tuesdays will be the days I cook mom food. As it turns out, all three meals today are her food -- tortilla for breakfast, chicken soup for lunch, fried chicken for dinner. Chicken and eggs abound! (I didn't plan it that way, honest. :-)

As the year goes on, I may come up with other theme nights, but as always, if you're in town and you want to stop by around 7pm (any night except Wednesday), you should do it. If you let us know you're coming in advance, we'll even make sure there's food you like to eat, but advance notice is not necessary.

Today seems like a good day to reboot this blog, and I may revive the dinner-and-a-bad-movie one that I accidentally deleted, too. My boss is buying me a new digicam (yay!) and I need to practice my photography for some work projects, so it's all gonna work together, if I'm lucky.

Have a wonderful, wonderful new year, all of you, and I hope we all see a happier, healthier, more prosperous 2008.

mmmmmmm, souuuuup

This chicken soup is so good! I boiled a chicken, made a simple chicken stock with the bones and some additional chicken feet, added diced onions/celery/carrots, tossed back in the chicken and some pastina (tiny little pasta BBs), and simmered it for a bit with a little salt. Oh, man, perfect January food.

Nana's Famous Fried Chicken

Well, the Mom Food Project is off to a marvelous start. I told mom yesterday that the last time I tried to duplicate her fried chicken, it didn't taste right, and the breading fell off. She told me that the chicken has to rest for a half hour for the breading to adhere. Okey-doke, check.

Then, "And how much Parmesan did you put in the breading?"

"Um, Parmesan? In fried chicken?"

Oh, yeah, there's parmesan in there. And lots of it. Anyway, she was right. The breading stuck, and it tasted just exactly as it did when I was a kid. Yay! Even the Munchkin, who has had mom's lots more recently than I have, approved.

Recipes in the next post.

( I'm gonna put the picture behind a cut tag for the folks who don't want to see pics of meat. )

Nana's Famous Fried Chicken

Nana's Famous Fried Chicken

( Long recipe that's easier than it sounds )