PWPenne ala Betsy and Fried Chicken

Ok so this blog is about food I wouldn't actually CHOOSE to make...on my own. I'm not so much a fan of shrimp, scum-sucking bottom dwellers that they are LOL...and I honestly don't think fried chicken tastes good enough to merit the calories :) But since we are cooking thru PW's cookbook, I will be making lots of things I wouldn't normally make. Like Burgundy mushrooms. Ew. But we will make them, and we will try them...but will make them on a night when we invite friends over who actually LIKE mushrooms :) 
So these are the ingredients for Penne ala Betsy. Betsy is PW's little sister. 
Shrimp, basil, parsley, onion, chicken stock, cream, tomatoes...that is pretty much all.
Cooking...noodles and onions and spices...
Making the yummmmmmy sauce... I don't usually cook with cream, but man, is it tasty!!And apparently I was having a cooking day b/c I decided to try my hand at Challah bread - b/c the picture in my cookbook looked so cool :) it was pretty tasty...except that it burned just a bit. Next time will cook it a few minutes less.
The finishes product. All the shrimp lovers in my house LOVED it (Savvy and Charles). Wyatt and I just ate the sauce on the noodles, minus the shrimp :)
I love my boys :) 
On to FRIED CHICKEN. If you had told me I was EVER going to make FC, I'd  have laughed at you :) Only for my sweet husband, and only b/c I have to. :)
My sweet helper :)
All in all it was an easy, pretty tasty experience.
Soak that chicken in buttermilk for a while...
lots and lots of OIL...
Yummy breading....Recipe calls for season salt and other spices...I accidentally bought low sodium season salt :P never again!
She was helping...mixed up the remaining breading with anything she could find, and then finally attacked a lone potato. Charles is such a good daddy...he even cooked the potatoes up for her :)
So PW's recipe is FRY then BAKE. And I made raoasted potato wedges too...
Pretty yummy looking plate, eh?

The best helper of all...:) He was kind of roped into the frying part. But I told him he had way more epserience w/ fried foods... he he He enjoyed it. And thinks we should make fried ckn again...I think we'll order out! :)

And here is the...concoction? creation? mass of random gooey-ness that Savanna created :) I have a budding chef on my hands :)

So 2 more recipes down...prob won't repeat them very often, but that is my own personal preference, not b/c they weren't delicious. As usual PW rocks the kitchen :)

PW is coming out with a 2nd cookbook soon. HOORAY! I think I'll cook thru that one too....


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