Everybody deserves to eat comfort food sometimes. Whether it's pizza, cheesecake, pie, meatloaf, chicken noodle soup, spaghetti, mac and cheese, cookies, cake, (or salad if you are my beautiful sister in law). Sometimes it is nice to eat something hot, delicious and glutinous when you have had a shit day.
However, if you are like my Mister and are allergic to gluten and dairy you can't have ANY of the above plus much much more. It has been a very hard diagnosis for us to become accustomed to.
Since his diagnosis he has been very good about keeping the grumbling about his new diet to a minimum.
(At least to me.)
However, he did tell me the other day about how sad he was that he can never ever have fried chicken anymore.
Seriously, my Misters new diet sucks.
(I am on it with him, so I should know.)
But I can go out with friends and cheat if I want. I can still eat whatever I want and know it wont make me sick.
He is not so lucky.
Seriously, my Misters new diet sucks.
(I am on it with him, so I should know.)
But I can go out with friends and cheat if I want. I can still eat whatever I want and know it wont make me sick.
He is not so lucky.
The man deserves some fried chicken.
I felt so bad that I did something I never in a million years thought I would do.
I went to target and bought a Presto deep fryer.
I went to target and bought a Presto deep fryer.
Deep fried food = gross.
Deep fried food smell in my house = grosser
The Mister eating a meal that doesn't taste bland, boring or just plain gross = priceless.
Crystal's Gluten & Dairy free Fried Chicken
*It has come to my attention that Bob's red mill gluten free flour actually has gluten in it. (WTF??) Please don't use it if you have celiac disease!
I have replaced my flour mixture with Nameste foods perfect flour blend and like it even better.
- 3 lbs drumsticks (They are cheaper and my family likes them more then white meat.)
- 4 C almond milk
- 4 eggs
- 2 T hot sauce (We use Franks)
- 2 C flour* (I use Bob Red mill gluten free all purpose mix)
- 2/3 C Tapioca four/starch (Or some other form, potato starch should work too.)
- 2 tsp salt* (I personally felt like it could use more salt)
- 1 T paprika
- 1 T pepper
- 1 T oregano
- 1 T onion powder
- 1 T Garlic powder
- Vegetable oil
- Put your chicken and almond milk in a container. Let chicken soak for one hour.
2. In a bowl. beat your hot sauce and eggs together.
3. In a separate bowl mix your flours and seasonings, (next time I make this I am upping the amount of seasonings I put in. It was a little more bland then we like in this house.)
4. Drain the chicken and pat off well. You can salt and pepper them if you want at this time.
5. Take your chicken (one piece at a time) and dip in your egg mixture. Then put the chicken in the flour mixture, coating it well.
6. After coating all pieces let the chicken sit for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes re-coat them with your flour mixture. (Not the egg mixture, just the flour.)
{Now I know that frying foods is a weak point for me. This is why I chose the fryer I did. 1. It was only $30, 2. All I had to do was plug it in for 15 minutes (with the oil poured to the line) and then it magically kept the oil at the correct temperature for as long as I had it plugged in.}
This next step is for people who have a cheap and magic fryer like I do.
7. Put four pieces of chicken in your fryer at a time and cook for 13 minutes.
8. Put your chicken on a rack in the oven (preset to about 275) to keep warm while you finish cooking the rest of the chicken.
Instant Happy Husband!
Instant children who "get along" with each other!
(Don't they look happy? Two seconds later I think Clara pinched Rhiannon.)
Happy Hump Day!
This is the song the Mister and I walked out of our wedding to. It's one of my favorites.
