Monday, September 27, 2010

Chicken instead of bananananananan bread

Ever see the Swedish Chef where he makes banana split?

No?

Go YouTube it then come back. I just love the way he says "bananananana"

OK so I wanted to make some banananana bread but the darn tricky thing is they only stay *perfect* momentarily. It's almost ephemeral, how fleeting banananana perfection is. So instead they went into the disposal. I'll spare you the details.

So instead... I've stumbled on the best, BEST freaking chicken EVER.

Or, I've perfected Boneless Skinless Buffalo Chicken.

Get ye some chicken. Mine is from whole foods and comes in nifty plastic packages that I can just toss into the freezer and forget that I have, then never defrost them and have to resort to a bowl of cheerios, some easily defrosted (but typically gnasty) cod, or the like. But as I have monies again, I bought some nommiful chicken and prepared to make it more nommiful thusly:

- Rinse the chicken. It's just weird if you don't.
- Get a cutting board, your nice sharp rosewood handled Forschner chef's knife (http://www.amazon.com/RH-Forschner-Rosewood-Chefs-Knife/dp/B000MDB4LO) and a bowl. Glass is preferred. No not that kind.
- Alright, throw some vinegar in the bowl and chop the nasty bits off the chicken, then cube it approximately.
- throw the chicken bits into yon vinegar.

Upon the vinegarish chicken sprinkle ye some olive oil, sea salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, onion powder, cumin, and try to remember not to unscrew the paprika cap because you don't need the whole bottle in there. Trust me.

This is the important bit!

Drizzle about 2 tablespoons of honey into everything.

Did you pay attention? That's going to be important when you EAT this.

Alright mix everything up really good, then throw the bits onto the broiling pan. Shove it in the oven, and broil, turning when it looks like it's time to.

While that broils, you will need to make some sauce! You need butter, or a reasonable facsimile thereof. Throw it in a smallish saucepan and melt it up. Add apple cider vinegar (just a wee bit unless you had a paprika malfunction) and Frank's Red Hot. ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE! It has to be Frank's and it has to be the regular Red Hot. K?

Cook it up, boil it down a bit, then when the chicken looks doneish, toss it in your deeelicious sauce.

Eat it with veggies, because you probably don't eat enough veggies, unless you're me. Or vegetarian. Bleu cheese optional, though my fridge seems to be void of any atm so I made do.

As an extra bonus round, when the food is done, you can wrap up two yams each in their own nice aluminum foil coat and throw them into a 350 degree oven for baking. They'll be tasty in an hour or so, but you won't be hungry then, so you can put them in the fridge and eat them tomorrow when you're too lazy and worn out from your run to cook anything. YEAH!

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