Well this morning my sis-in-law, niece #2, and I went to the grocery store. At home stayed my sis, T, and niece #1. We made this trip out for some staples of the household and I told my sis in law that I would cook, so I needed the ingredients for it. "It" was Chicken Milanese, something I've cook a couple times at home and it was a big hit, so I decided I'd treat my extended family to it...
Right now I'm in bed at home... (next day)
A few months back I was at home watching the Food Network and the show "Secrets of a Restaurant Chef" was on. Anne Burrell was whipping it up among other things and, as I often do while watching Food Network, I got inspired to try it out myself. I ran out to the store immediately, bought all the ingredients, and returned home to give it a shot myself. The fam and friends who also tried it said it was the best fried chicken they had ever had. I thought so, too!
Back to the out-o-towners... We were watching Monk when I quick checked the clock and decided it was about time that I should be getting the ingredients together. I read the recipe and it called for an hour of fridge time after breading the chicken. I rushed into the kitchen and pretty much made a mess of the place while in a frenzy to finish before the family would be starving. The bowls filled - flour, eggs and water, and Panko bread crumbs mixed with grated Parmesan cheese. They overflowed while I sloshed and patted them down from bowl to bowl. After piling the breaded butterflied chicken on a plate and sticking it in the fridge, I cleaned up trying to leave not a trace of my mess. I fried it up after the cooling period and served it with what my sis in law put out - cheese, rice, and broccoli. Nieces loved it - 3 y/o and 1 y/o. The 3 y/o had three helpings of it. : ) That makes me feel great! Kids are the toughest critics. Sis in law enjoyed it as well and she ate some more today for lunch.
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Now to design. I'm taking two courses this semester, Psychology and Typography. The latter I've taken before and received and A, but the school has a different teacher this year and I decided to audit it. A project I worked on first was a potato stamp project. You may have done something similar in kindiegarten. The assignment was to pick a term from Typographic Anatomy, spell it out in the Phoenician alphabet, carve each symbol into individual potatoes, stamp them with black ink on a piece of paper, scan it into the computer, colorize it in photoshop, and then come up with an interesting dynamic composition in InDesign. Pictured here are the three I did. Enjoy!
