How To Make The Best Fried Chicken Ever

Well, You’ve come to the right place if you love fried chicken.

Get ready for the juiciest, sweetest, crunchiest fried chicken recipe you ever tried … !

I’m going to be teaching you step by step and give you tips on how to make incredible chicken. It is possible for you to make fantastic fried chicken right in your own kitchen …

Just carefully follow each step and if you have any questions, leave them in the comments.

fried chicken breasts

If there is fried chicken on a menu, then you can bet, I always order it. I’ve discovered many local restaurants that offer great fried chicken. However, I honestly still love my own fried chicken the best.

Yes, we even eat our own grain fed chickens we’ve raised. It’s easy to detach once we get a little fried chicken hunger on … from the pen to the plate.

If you’re interest in raising your own chickens you can read more here.

I marinate my chicken in buttermilk along with a bit of hot sauce. It is very crispy, very juicy, and has a flavorful and beautiful crust. For years I have been working on a special combination of spices that I used with my fried chicken. I love tasty chicken, and my fried chicken has an amazing flavor. It really is the best Fried Chicken Recipe ever!

Here’s my secrets to frying flavorful, crispy chicken …

First Step: Marinate

On the day before you are planning to fry your chicken, marinate your chicken in a few big ziplock bags with buttermilk and hot sauce. Leave your chicken overnight in the refrigerator. I use clean kitchen garbage bags.

This chicken has lots of flavors but, don’t worry, is not that hot. The fried chicken has many layers of flavors that start with the buttermilk and hot sauce.

fried chicken, peppers and cucumber

Second Step: Spices

Use a whisk to mix together an amazing combination of spices.

Add your spices in with baking powder, cornstarch, and flour. Baking Powder is such a magical ingredient.

Before you add it to the flour, save a few tablespoons of your Spice mixture. Once the chicken has been fried you will be seasoning the chicken once more with your leftover spices.

Third Step: Flour Your Chicken

Take the chicken out of the marinade piece by piece and dip it into your spices and flour mixture. Put the chicken pieces on a baking sheet. The pieces should not be touching each other.

chicken batter ingredients in mixing bowl

Fourth Step: Allow the Chicken to Rest

Flour the pieces of chicken and let them rest in a large pan for 15 minutes. Don’t let the pieces touch one another. If there is room in the refrigerator, put the baking sheet inside for 15 minutes.

Fifth Step: Flour Your Chicken Again

After the chicken has rested for 15 minutes, dip it into your flour mixture again and let it rest for another 15 minutes. Put it inside the refrigerator if there is room.

Sixth Step: Heat The Oil Up

Heat enough oil to fry your chicken in. There needs to be enough oi for you to be able to completely submerge the chicken and totally cover it.

Let your oil heat up to 375 degrees. As soon as the chicken is added the temperature will start to drop.

chicken frying in hot oil

Seventh Step: Cook Your Chicken

Cook the chicken until it is golden brown for about 15 minutes. Make sure the fryer is not overcrowded.

Eighth Step: Drain and Season Your Chicken

Use tongs to remove the chicken onto a baking sheet lined in paper towels.

Thoroughly season the chicken right after it is removed from the hot oil.

Ninth Step: Serve the chicken hot along with honey.

For a real treat, drizzle honey on your fried chicken.

honey in jars

My favorite way of eating fried chicken is to drizzle a little honey on it. The crunch and sweetness along with the flavor of the chicken is the best food in the world.

I have used a cast iron dutch oven to fry many chickens, but it is easier, safer, and much crispier to fry in the Butterball Electric Turkey Fryer. So why not fry up some chicken if you have a big crowd to feed.

Everybody will absolutely love it, and with an electric fryer, it will cook in minutes.

Gardening Tips For Cleaning Up and Preparing For Winter

How to Start Preparing The Garden For Winter

If you love your garden, you may realize it’s time to start cleaning it up a bit and getting prepared for winter. Even if it’s only currently fall, winter will come before you know it, and it might be difficult for you to do much gardening work if it’s extremely cold outside.

robin in a snow covered garden tree

If you’ve got the spare time to start the cleanup process, there are quite a few different things you can do to get your garden ready for the winter season.

Collect Leaves and Remove Them

Get rid of all the unwanted leaves that have fallen in your garden. Start by raking them into a pile. Once you’ve got your pile, pick the leaves up and place them into a large trash bag. You can throw them out with the trash so that you don’t have to continue stepping on them. Make sure you’re collecting leaves from flower pots and other areas of the garden that may not be nearly as obvious.

Check For Weeds and Remove Them

Look around the garden for any unwanted weeds. If you find them, you may want to pull them right out. If you’re not a fan of pulling the weeds out, you can spray an organic solution on the weeds. Some people use a combination of salt and vinegar to kill the weeds in a natural and effective manner.

Decide on the most effective approach and tackle those weeds. You certainly don’t want to have to deal with them growing anymore than they already have, especially since they’re often such eyesores in a beautiful garden.

Fertilize Your Lawn

Many people make the mistake of forgetting to fertilize their lawn before the winter comes. However, if you take this extra step in advance, you’ll benefit from it in the future when the spring season arrives. Sprinkle a generous amount of fertilizer all over the grass. It will help to keep the grass protected and when spring arrives, your grass will look healthy and beautiful rather than brown, dry, and icky.

Start Planting Select Plants

There are certain flowers and plants that thrive during the warmer weather months in spring and summer. However, there are other plants and flowers that thrive outside when the temperature is much cooler. If you’d like to remain active in your garden during the winter, consider planting certain things that are likely to do well despite the temperature outside.

Some of the different things you may want to consider planting during the fall would include Winter Jasmine, Japanese Blood Grass, onions, and asparagus. These are some of the different plants that are known for thriving despite winter conditions.

winter jasmine in bloom

Take care of your garden and prepare it for the winter weather. Start the cleaning process and make sure you’re adding fertilizer to the grass so that it will grow in looking fresh and beautiful as soon as those spring months arrive. You may even want to start planting certain vegetables and flowers in your garden because some plants naturally do better during the winter.

A great source to buy perennials and bamboo plants online.

The Advantages Of Free Range Chicken Farming

Free range chicken farming

Chicken Farming has become extremely popular across the globe in this day and age. The term free range chicken farming refers to the method of allowing the chickens to roam freely in your backyard and find their own food. They are less dependent on artificial store-bought food due to this reason. They are not given any form of steroids when they are growing. It is a 100% organic method of rearing chickens for meat or eggs. Consumers around the world prefer this type of meat and eggs since they are much tastier and nutritious compared to the broiler version of chicken.

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This article provides an overview of the most important advantages of free-range chicken farming.

Organic meat and eggs fetch a higher price on the market. They are preferred by the majority of consumers who are willing to pay at least 20-30% higher prices compared to the prices of broiler chicken. Since there are no steroids and chemicals used when rearing the chicks, free range chickens offer healthier meat and eggs. These foodstuff doesn’t have any side effects similar to broiler chicken. Consumers are clamoring for free range chicken meat and eggs these days. This is because they want to eat healthy as well as nutritious food for what they pay. This is why you need to get into free range chicken farming right now to take advantage of the consumer behavior on the market. It will help you get a better return on your investment as well.

Your capital expenditure will be much lower when you decide to a free range chicken farming business. You will not have to spend much on artificial foodstuff and steroids under such circumstances. The chicken will consume organic food that can be freely found in your backyard. You may have to supplement this with a very little store-bought food. This way you save money in the process of free range farming and earn more on the harvest. This is why you need to consider free range chicken farming right now.

In conclusion, free range chicken farming is extremely popular in this day and age. Many consumers prefer free range chicken meat and eggs due to the taste and nutrition in such foodstuff. This read offers important information on why you need to take to free range chicken farming right now. It will give you a better ROI in the long run.

Beautiful Backyard Garden Roses

Since springtime is here and everyone is getting into the gardening mode.

Hometalk, a ‘house-and-garden’ community online, discussed their suggestions for developing a fantastic rose garden. I couldn’t wait to get in on the blog action. Newbie garden enthusiasts, do not be frightened!

backyard-garden-climbing-rose

These suggestions are very easy. Continue reading and you’ll be on your way to a season of beautiful blooms.

1. Choose carefully. See to it the bush you want to plant currently has some fresh buds or at least one rose. By doing this, you may know the scent of the bush and the flower petal color. Consider low-maintenance roses that won’t need a great deal of maintenance. For example, the ‘climbing rose’, have the tendency to spread wide with numerous blossoms, so these won’t require as much pruning.

2. Construct the proper trellis. Make your own trellis. You can easily make something at a low cost that looks great. Use materials that match the visual flow of your yard.

3. Develop the ideal framework. Plant your trellises at an angle and leave a spot for a water fountain or bench. This way, you’ll have a spot to enjoy them later. Position them back far enough from walkways so the thorns don’t catch your legs as you’re walking.

 

4. Prepare the ground. Growing roses take’s a great deal of prep work. When excavating the hole, see to it that it is 2 times larger that your plant’s origin sphere, and as deep as it is high.

5. Select a sunlit area. Roses grow the best in total sunlight (6 or even more hrs of sunlight a day), in soil with good drainage. Be sure to use soil that is organic and rich in mineral nutrients.

6. Water the bushes properly. Throughout the stormy periods, you bushes will not need much watering. In the summer season, however, you’ll need to give them a good soaking about 3 times a week. Particularly if you find yellow fallen leaves on your plants. Be careful of excess watering! Dirt ought to be damp however not so wet it’s like much, as roses prefer to be wet but not swamped out with too much water. Mounting the bush a little higher will ensure falling water runs off and away from the stem.

 

roses set in a beautiful wood trellis

What You Need To Know About Raising Chickens

More and more people are finding that raising chickens…

It can be a great way to save major money on both eggs and meat. It is relatively inexpensive to raise hens, especially in the country. As people are rightfully becoming more wary of unnecessary chemicals or unnatural treatments to our food, they are looking for solutions. While raising chickens can be a great way to accomplish this, there are a few things you need to know.

chickensGetting Started

One of the first things to understand is whether or not it is legal for you to have a chicken coop in your yard. If you live out in a rural area or in the country, chances are it’s just fine. Property restrictions tend to be much looser out in the back woods. There’s currently a lot of news and updates in legislation regarding owning and raising backyard chickens. If you live in a township there might be strict rules on whether you can or can’t raise chickens, how many, and what type of buildings can be set up for them. Even though in many towns it’s okay to have a backyard chicken coop, often having roosters is illegal because of the nuisance of their dawn or predawn wake-up calls.

Next step is to make sure you don’t convince yourself you’re capable of building the chicken coop from scratch. Building a chicken coop requires some serious carpentry skills. You’ll either want to buy a preset built coop, having an experienced farmer build one for you, or order a chicken coop assembly kit. This comes with all the parts and specific instructions on building a chicken coop. It saves a lot of headaches and guarantees you will have a more stable building to house your chickens. Happy hens are going to lay more eggs. You might also find other helpful resources and guides online for your chicken pen plans.

Finally, be aware that they won’t lay eggs every day. Some people get lucky and see eggs for most of their hens almost every day. There are many other people, however, who experience strange stop and go spurts. A hen may lay eggs for 20 straight days then stop for a week.

Understanding all of these issues right off the bat will make the entire process easier and far less frustrating for you to handle.

Free Range Chicken Farming Tips

Free range chicken farming is very popular across the country these days.

It’s basically, the practice of chicken farming and allowing them to graze and roam free outside of their pens and letting them enter the coop only at night. The chickens are generally allowed to roam freely in the garden and find their own food. Their diet may be supplemented with additional supplements in their water or feeders. You don’t need a lot of space to raise free range chickens. This article provides an overview of free range chicken farming tips.

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There are many benefits of free-range chicken farming. The most important benefit is you can generally get a higher price per pound, for the meat and eggs of free range chickens.

Customers are willing to pay more for this type of chicken and eggs because they are much tastier and healthier compared to broiler chicken products. Free range chicken meat contains more nutrients and less fat. The cost of operating such a business is quite lower since you don’t have spend so much on chicken feed and maintenance. The chickens will find their own food while roaming in the garden or field. Since they feed on organic food, their eggs and meat are more nutritious compared to pen raised chickens.

free-range-chicken-eggs

     Another advantage is these chickens will debug and weed your yard. These chickens actually prefer to eat bugs and weeds found in the garden rather than artificial store feeds.

The guano of such chickens is considered an excellent source of manure for your garden. Health wise, free range chickens are easy to rear. You will not have to incur a fortune on medical costs to rear them. There are many natural treatment methods for minor illnesses of free range chickens. For example, lemongrass is preferred for detoxification while garlic and chilies work well as antibiotics. Leucaena leucocephala is considered a great anti-parasitic and anti-mite medicine for these chickens.

Above is a huge free range farm I wanted to share – check that out!

There are a few disadvantages of rearing free range chickens.

One is they will poop almost in any place in your garden. Hence, you have to block them from areas in your garden that you do not want them to poop. These chickens can easily stray into neighboring gardens. Hence, you have to be on the watch out for this. They will also lay eggs anywhere in the garden.

Because they can roam about, they are also more prone to predators. You need to keep these things in mind when planning a free range chicken farming business in your garden or backyard.