Chicken Recipe

As per mistressace's request:

THAT CHICKEN THING I MADE FOR YOUR PARTY ^TM

So basically I was in the cheese section of Whole Foods. I hang out there a lot. It's like a peep show for me. Anyway, they had English Ale there, sitting just above and to the left of the good parmesan and I thought, "Ooooh! Beer type drink! And it has made friends with the cheese!" So I bought it. Because I had plans. Marinade plans.

Marinade:
4 parts English ale
4 parts fresh squeezed lemon juice
1 part honey

Oh, and for the lemon juice, I highly recommend getting a juicer. I did not use a juicer. I used my fingers and a knife. Citric acid and skin so dry it's almost cracking is a bad combination.

Right then. The battering. So once the chicken had been marinated for a few hours (I wasn't keeping track too well, but most of the surface texture of the meat had changed from the acid in the lemon juice by the time I started battering). I slathered it in honey and covered it in pastry flour.

It's all I had in my fridge.

Yes, I keep flour in my fridge. There was this thing. With moths. Don't ask.

Right, so then I fried the battered chicken. First, I poured peanut oil, a splash of sesame oil, and a splash of plum brandy into a pan. I fried about half the chicken this way, laying pieces into the pan and then turning them over once one side was sufficiently crispy. Then a lot of flour started crusting up my pan. So I cleaned my pan out.

At which point I realized I had run out of both peanut oil and plum brandy.

The rest of the chicken was fried in soy oil with a splash sesame oil and a splash of orange liqueur.


So, in conclusion.

-chicken, preferably in strip form
-honey
-pastry flour
-English Ale
-fresh squeezed lemon juice
-peanut oil/soy oil
-sesame oil
-plum brandy/orange liqueur