Pickled Red Onions

When you offer someone house-made pickled red onions, they are impressed. You have to be sure to say house-made and not homemade because it sounds more Top Chef.

After 24 Hours

Make these pickled red onions and put them everything- sandwiches, salads, tacos, burrito bowls, deviled eggs, pulled pork, etc. This recipe makes more pickling liquid than I could fit in a 16 ounce jar with a whole red onion so I just saved it in the fridge. Now I have enough to pickle another onion without making more liquid.

I don't have the best knife skills so since I took this picture, I've gotten a mandoline. My onions are even fancier!

Brown Butter Rice Krispie Treats

Inspired by this TikTok, I made Brown Butter Rice Krispie Treats.

The video doesn't say how much butter to use so I actually followed this recipe. I used bourbon vanilla so it was bourbon on bourbon.

I didn't fully appreciate how much stirring this was going to but the effort was well worth it. Served this with fish tacos while watching Hamilton on Disney+ and they were caramelly but not too sweet. Just like the founding fathers used to eat!

Low-carb Oven Fried Pork Rind Crusted Chicken

It was as good and crispy as it looks! I got the recipe from my sister who's been following the Atkins diet. I'm living a "less carb" lifestyle and have been craving crispy chicken so I decided to give it a try. The recipe was actually really simple. I always oven-fry my chicken so the breading was the only thing I did differently. I cooked it in a large cast iron skillet. It's important to note that chicken really only crisps in the oven in a dark-colored pan. A broiler pan works as well.

Ingredients

• 1 pound of bone-in skin-on chicken breasts (about 2 large breasts)
• Seasoned Salt
• Ground Black Pepper
• Garlic Powder
• 4 ounce bag of pork rinds (I used Clancy's Original from Aldi)
• 2 eggs
• Canola oil

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
2. Cut each chicken breast in half and liberally season with seasoned salt, black pepper and garlic powder.
3. Finely crush pork rinds. I put them in a zip lock bag and rolled them with a rolling pin but you can use whatever gets the job done. Remove any uncrushed pieces and enjoy. The hard, crunchy pieces are the best part! Pour in a bowl.
4. Scramble the eggs in a second bowl.
5. Pour about 1/2 an inch of canola oil into the cast iron skillet (or pan of your choice). Make sure the bottom of the pan is completely covered.
6. Make an assembly line of seasoned chicken, scrambled egg, crushed pork rind, then oiled pan. Dip the chicken in the egg, thoroughly coat with pork rind, then place in pan.
7. Bake in the oven for about 20-30 minutes each side until golden and crispy.

Pau's Fried Chicken

This little old lady is adorable! She reminds me of my own grandmother. If I get motivated enough, I just might post a video of one of her famous recipes.

I found this video series while searching for a wet batter for fried chicken. I haven't tried her method of marinating chicken in soy sauce and garlic salt yet, but it sounds like a good combination.

Why Did I Start This Blog?

I love to talk about food. That's it. I thought I would have something profound to say for my first post but I really couldn't come up with anything. Maybe I'll come back later and update this post but probably not. I love to cook and talk about food so here it is!