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Spring chicken

the menu is essentially a modular one. Build your meal to suit yourself. There’s a good selection of appetizers; we had the deep fried oysters (good), deep fried onion rings (good, good), and blue corn-dredged calamari...

Chelly’s recipe sounds awesome! I usually just pat dry chicken breasts, then dredge them in flour, then beaten egg, then flour again. (Season the flour with salt, pepper, garlic powder). Then I pan fry them in a cast-iron...

Good with olive oil on toasted pita I’ve also dredged fish fillets in it.

and Basil panino I roast them halved, and place on a ricotta, egg and basil mixture atop puff pastry...bake and serve Or, the ultimate: Out of hand w/ a salt shaker in the other. I’m sure I’ll think of more and I just may...

be in season soon. Comice would work but are extra juicy so use a bit more thickening agent in the sugar-flour-cinnamon dredge mix. Add ground toasted nuts of choice to the crust—try hazelnut—and a T or two of either...

's the signature dish of Texas and nobody does it up here. It’s not that hard: Dredge a cube steak, mash some potatoes, steam a side veg, make a cream gravy, fry a couple thick slices of the pain de mie from Clear Flour for...

before you even get yourself to a table the wait staff has already placed a bowl of sliced lemons on the table for your use with the cruets of oil and vinegar and shakers of salt and pepper. The high turnover here keeps the...

With you all the way on this one. Hailing from Annapolis, I dredge my ss’s in light corn meal with flour, s&p, saute in butter and sometimes throw in some chopped or sliced almonds. I just want to taste the crab –...

Around my 6th birthday, I actually bothered to notice my mom soaking the chicken in buttermilk before dredging them in Old Bay dusted panko breadcrumbs and frying them in lard. I thought, "Maybe THAT’S why it tastes so...

. It is called furikake and the main is ingredient is flakes of dried nori seaweed, the seaweed used in wrapping for sushi. It comes in little shaker jars or single serving packets. Wakame seaweed can be found at all Japanese,...

taste of the merguez sausage which he dredged in the pistachio-mint pesto for me. Divine. I had the harissa-spiced local monk fish. The fish was cooked perfectly. (Our server told us that the chef has a way with fish.) I even...

add some salt – it spreads the flavor throughout your sauce or whatever else you’re making. And here’s one I learned from my father, a great lover of fresh, home-grown tomatoes: he always had a salt shaker labled...

, but the Mean Green and simple Hot Sauce are great. I seldom go through a whole bottle of anything, but I use these down to the last dredge.