A Day of Shinny Things and Vegetable Goodness

Last Saturday the Lady and I joined our friend at Beadfest.  Beadfest is a huge bead and jewelry making convention.  It was a lot of fun and they had ton of pretty beads and doodads.  I mainly went to hang out with my Lady and our friend as beading isn't currently my medium of choice for making things (I'm a words and yarn sort of guy at the moment).  Our friend is the one who's big into the beading.  This is a recent development  and now she is all in.  It was a lot of fun to see her lose her mind over all the booths selling things. 

It was great to spend time just the three of us like back in the old day.  We used to hang out all the time the three of us.  But now our friend has a kid and the Lady and I are dating, so we don't really have as much time to hang out just the three of us.  I want to make a more concerted effort to find opportunity for the three of us to hang out.

After the show and we said good bye to our friend I made us dinner.  The Lady is mostly a vegetarian.  Sometime she will eat meat, but some time the idea of eating an animal just weirds her out a little, which I totally get.  Knowing this I wanted to make her a delicious meal I knew she would like no matter if she was in the mood for meat or not.  I came up with a meal of Pan Seared Asparagus with Tarragon & Lime glaze, Jasmine Rice, Old Man Mitchell's Carrots and Pear chutney.

Pan Seared Asparagus with Tarragon & Lime Glaze

This Recipe is based off of one I found in Cooking light's April 2014 issue.  It's originally for green beans, but had an asparagus variation.  I took that variation and made it closer to the green bean version.

What you need:

Sunflower oil
8 ounces of asparagus
1 teaspoon of butter
1 tablespoon of fresh lime juice
2 teaspoon of fresh tarragon
large skillet

Directions:

• heat pan over high heat for a minute or 2
• coat the pan in sun flower oil
• add asparagus to pan and shake till the asparagus forms a single layer
• without stirring let sit for 2 minutes or until asparagus in lightly charred
• lower heat to high medium and cook for another 3 and half minutes, tossing them from time to time
• turn off heat and let asparagus rest for 1 minute
• add the butter and toss till asparagus is completely coated
• add lime juice and toss till asparagus is completely coated
• cover with tarragon and toss till asparagus is completely coated, you can adjust the amount to taste

I have publish the other Recipes before and you can click on the link to get to those Blog posts:

Old Man Mitchell's Carrots

Pear Chutney

The only difference in the chutney is that I substituted pears for apples.

The meal was a tremendous hit!  The Lady loved the food.  It was also nice for me to cook for someone again.  It was the first time since my last relationship that I was able to cook for one person while they waited.  I didn't realize how much I missed doing that.  While I might not always have the highest option of myself and can be downright mean at time with the self-criticism, one area where I actually think that I excel is cooking.  I like to show the person how much I can about them by pouring those feeling into the food and the fact I can execute it at a high level is really nice.

I want to thank everyone who commented with such nice words on the last blog post.  It really means a lot to me.  I hope that my sharing my own experience, both good and bad, it can help people who are struggling with some of the same issue as I am.  Ultimately this blog is about making things both in and out of the kitchen, but as creative people so much of ourselves goes into the work it only seems right I share myself as well as my work.

Besides making tasty food, I'm currently working on the follow up to my comic Dangers of the Road.  It's still in the early stages but it will feature Sophie and her cohorts.  My goal is for it to be a an ongoing bi-monthly (eventually Monthly) comic that sells enough copies to be self-sustaining.  The time line would be to launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund the first issue late summer/early fall, then publish mid fall.  Right now I'm doing a lot of world building and an early draft first issues script is with my editor.  The kick start will not be launched till the first issue is nearly done.  Even if I don't get the funding, this book will come out; it just might take a little (or a lot) longer without outside funds.

I'm also working on a short prose piece based off a writers prompted I did with my writing group.  It's still a number of edits from being done, but the first draft has been complete and once it is done, I think I'm just going to post it one line for free.

That's all for now, go make things.

Depression Event Horizon

I really do hating starting off these posts with why I haven’t written.  The answer is almost always the same Depression.  Over the last few months I feel like most of my energy has been to struggle to keep myself from falling into the black hole that is crippling depression.  I've been right at the edge of the event horizon, right before where I would be stretched into pieces, what is called Spaghettification.

I have tried to write blog posts.  I have a least a half dozen half written one still on my computer.  Each time I get part way thought and voice that says, this is boring, no good and no one cares shouts me down.  The post gets saved away with the promises that I'll come back to it and fix it.  A promise as you can tell I rarely keep.

And it doesn't matter that good things have happened.  It doesn't really need a reason.  I can be having a nice day, things going smoothly, and then out of the blue, I'm gripped with this general melancholy.  This sadness with latch on any kernel of worry or anxiety I have and grow.  It becomes an anchor around my soul.

I have finally decided that I needed to call in for backup.  As much as I love and need the support of my friends, who are wonderful, I needed and still need a professional.  For the last couple of months once a week I talk things out with a therapist.  I was reluctant to go to one, because I have tried to enlist professional help before, with mostly limited results.

Over the last 10 years, this is the third time I have sought professional help.  I never really clicked with the first guy I saw.  I soon realized that the stress of coming up with the co-pay was more stressful and a more of a hardship than the depression I was fighting.  A few years later I tried again.  Again I found I didn't have3 a great rapport with the therapist.  Worse than just not clicking with her, she was very forgetful.  Every visit I spend haft the time repeating what I had told her in past visits.  The final straw was when she double booked me.

Luckily it seems that the cliché is correct this time and the third time really is a charm.  My current therapist Heather is much more attentive and remembers what I have told her.  While I find the hour to be a little tough at time and draining, its been very productive.  I think we have found the root of some of my issues and anxiety.  It's going to be long slog to get a handle on these thing, but I think in time, I will be happier and healthier.

I'm also learning to focus on the positive things in my life.  Here are some highlights since the last time I posted:

• I have started dating a good friend of mine and things are going great on that front.  I Have never dated someone whom I was really good friends with first.  We had been friends for almost a decade before we got together, so all of the getting to know you stuff is out of the way already.  The best way to describe it is to use a drinking metaphor, odd for a teetotaler I know.  My past relationships were like doing shots of Jagermeister.  It was all good times and excitement, woo-who, Spring Break!! Than out of nowhere you find yourself feeling awful and there are some fussy bits about how the night ended, but you know it didn't end well.  What I have now is more like a nice glass of wine you drink with a fine meal.  You feel a little bit of a buzz and just sort of warm inside.  It's nice.
• I've been going to the gym lately.  In fact i have gone every week day for the last three weeks.  now it's just been 25-30 min on the bike so far, but I'm hoping to start lifting again soon.  Getting these workouts have been a big help to my mood.  Now if I can just start eating right.
• To bury the lead, I published my 8 page comic!!!  You can buy it here or here or on freaking amazon for your kindle.  Of course as soon as I released it I was caught in a powerful wave of depression and did little to no real marketing.  But it is awesome that it is one the shelf at my local comic shop, Comics and More
• But this does not mean it was a failure as it has gotten me a bunch of lettering jobs.  Including a story featured in an anthology coming out later this year.  Once it's out I'll share more details.  I also have set up a page full of samples of my work.  Please take a look and I'm open to feed back as to things I could do to improve my technique.  I'm still learning as a letterer.

I learned a lot doing the comic and these lettering projects.  I hoping to take that knowledge and applying it to a continuing bi-monthly series that is a follow up to Dangers of The Road.

OK I think that's enough blogging for now.  I hope to have some more post for you soon.

T.

Closing out 2013

I hope everyone had a good Christmas, I know I did.  This year has brought on a lot of changes to my life.  Some good, some not as positive, but have seemed to lead to positive things for the most part.  Two of the biggest changes to happen this year happened in the last week.  I finally published my 8 page mini-comic, Dangers of the Road.  It was delivered last Friday and I must say they look gorgeous.  I used a service called Ready Comics to print them.  I'm doing a bit of soft launch on these and mainly using them a resume piece.  I plan on setting up an Esty store during my New Year.  Till then if you want a physical copy just shoot me an email or comment below.  If you want a digital copy you can buy one for $1.99 at Amazon, Click Here.  I wanted to charge less but that’s as low I Amazon would let me go.  It make up for the high price I add some concept art to the Kindle version.

The other big change that just happen with I bought an NEW CAR!!!!! Well, not bought, but leased a new car.  Hey it's the first time I have ever driven a brand new car that no one else has ever owned.  While the end of the year may be the best time to buy a car in terms of getting a good price, but it really it the worse time to shop for one.  Trying the find the time to do all of the Christmas stuff and finding time to go to the different dealerships was a real challenge.  Also it seemed like every time I was free to go to a dealership the sky would open up and pour snow everywhere, or it was Sunday.  In Pennsylvania you can't sell cars on a Sunday.

The impetus to buy a car wasn't just because I had a little bit of money from finally settling with the insurance company after my car accident from last august.  It was because Goldie, my old 2001 Honda civic was once more acting up.  First the muffler separated from the exhausted pipe.  I was able to fix it with a clamp, some muffler tape and YouTube video.  Then it started to overheat again.  I found out the radiator reservoir was empty.  Once I filled it up with coolant and water, it seemed fine and I don't know why it was empty.  After that I started looking in earnest and borrowed my mom's car.  Having literally been burned by this sort of issue this summer, I wasn't going to take chance.

My original plan was to wait till my tax return came in and I had a big chunk of money to put down to find a car.  With that out the window, I started looking at used cars.  I went to one dealership to look at a used 2009 Civic.  I figured I'd stick with Honda, because despite the issues I had with it, I loved Goldie and she had given me 140,000+ good miles.  She only had 23,000 when I bought her, for a really good price.  That car didn't owe me a thing.

From the moment I went to the dealership red flags started going off.  First even though I had made an appointment, the car was not ready when I got there.  Turned out the battery was dead and they had to jump it before I could give it a test drive.  Then I saw it didn't have a sunroof, which it was listed as having on their website.  The test drive went well enough and I would have been fine with the car.  Red flags started again once we brought the car back and they started in with a really push soft sell, that nearly spilled over to a hard sell.  Even after I told them I, would need to think about it and that I don't make any time of big decisions after a long day of work.  Then they brought over a super sleaze manager.  I felt like I need to check that I still had all my fingers after shaking his hand.  Sufficed to say, I didn't leave wanting to buy that car, even though I kind of liked it.

This led me to dread going to look at any more cars.  I also was worried about my credit score and what kind of loan I could get.  I imagined finding a car I loved and thought I could afford, only to have them tell me that they couldn't sell me a car.  Of course my depression got a hold of this notion and multiplied 1000 times, where I almost had a panic attack at the thought of looking at another car.

I had just read the Nerdist Way by Chris Hardwick a nerd self-help sort of book.  In the book he talks about how knowledge is the key to conquering fear.  Taking that advice I called the bank where I had gotten the loan for Goldie all those years ago.  The woman I talked to was great.  We ran some numbers and I was pre-approved for a loan.  I now knew exactly how much I could spend and that if one dealer couldn't make it happen with those numbers another one would.

When I went to the dealership the next day, I made sure to tell them that it was just a fact finding mission and that I kind of shut down when people are pushy even in a passive aggressive way.  Mike Winter over at the Kia in Limerick took that to heart and showed me a bunch of cars without being push or making me feel like I had to decide on one then and there. 

I ended up leasing a 2014 Kia Forte for him a few days later.  On the way home I was trying to decide what to call my new car.  The name Shadow just popped right into my head.  Over the next few days of driving the car I knew I made the right decision.  It's a really nice car and because it only had 47 miles on it I'm not worried about anything going wrong with it and getting stuck some place.

As I write this I also realize that it was good for me to get out of Goldie.  She was filled with the ghost of the past.  I was trapped a bit in her with memories both good and bad. With Shadow, I have but a weeks' worth of memories, all good, and nothing holding me back from moving forward.

New Year's Eve is tomorrow and I can't help but think about the past year.  To be honest a lot of it is blur of depression.  It was such a tough year, as I outlined in this post, but I want to take this opportunity to thank all of the people who were there for me this year.  Without the love and support of my friends this year, I really don't know how far in a hole I would have fallen.  I most certainty would not have been in a place where I could have not only written a comic book, but gotten it printed and used it to get more lettering.  I was incredibly fortunate to have such kind and support of friends.  To everyone who help me, both year and years past, thank you. 

May you, dear reader, be as lucky as I am and may we all have a wonderful 2014.

No NaNo For You Know Who

So, I'm not going to win NaNoWriMo this year.  With 4 days to go I only have a little over 13,000 words of the 50,000 need for winning.  It a shame, I really liked the winners t-shirt for this year.  The reason I didn't win is twofold.

The first reason is comic books. Right before NaNo started I picked up a comic book lettering gig.  Most of the creative time and energy I would have spent on writing I spent lettering.  This was the first time I very lettered a comic book that I didn't write myself.  It was a challenging job because I didn't write I didn't automatically know how it should be paced.  The author of the comic I did the work for just posted a low-res preview of the comic here: http://www.frolicandfester.blogspot.com/2013/11/knock-three-times-art-by-damon-threet.html

Before I got that job I was already working on an 8 page mini-comic as I mentioned in an earlier post.  I'm happy to announce that all of the heavy lifting on that project is done and I should be sending it to the printer by Friday.  This means that it is a very real possibility that I will have printed copies in my hand before the end of the year.  Also I'm shooting to have it available for the kindle.  My PC died last week, which delayed everything and I will need to re-download the Kindle comic crafting software.  But with the pages all done it shouldn't take too long and I it as well should be done by Friday.

The second thing that will cause me to lose NaNo is that simple fact that Comic book scripts just don't have that many words (unless you're Alan Moore) In a comic book the dialog is kept short to lessen the  impact of it obscuring the art.  Also when describing the panels to the artist it takes a lot of visualization, which in turn, for me, really slows down the writing process.

All that being said, I have gotten half an issue of a script written and I also cranked out a super short story.  Not bad considering I also lettered 14 pages of comics, several times after getting edits and new versions of the art.  I would actually consider this a productive month so far.

My goal going forward is to still write every day, which is the point of NaNoWriMo in the first place.  The word count will just be a little less important than during NaNo proper.  Instead of trying to spit out 1600+ words every day, I'm shooting for a more manageable word count goal of 250 to 500 words.  That's not to say I can't have more productive days and write more than that.  I'm just not going beat myself up or push myself if I got my 250-500 words in for the day.

I also want to make it a goal to try to do some sort of lettering each and every day as well.  The goal there is to get at least one page under my belt a day.  More pages if I have a job an deadline.  Speaking of which If anyone knows of any project that is looking for a letter please let me know.  I will do the work for the low, low price of FREE.  Right now it's more important to me that I get paid in experience and resume building.  Once I have a couple hundred more hours and several more projects under my belt I'll start using pay rate as a factor in the jobs I take.  I however never want to lose the desire to take a job just because it is a cool project.  I know I will never be rich doing comics.  I know that the likely hood of me being able to make a living by crating comics alone is slim.  But I love comics, I love helping to bring a work to life and being able to hold something I helped create in my hand.

OK that's all for now; go cook something up.

T.

Stuck In Neutral

For whatever reason, my Attention Deficit disorder has been really bad as of late.  Seriously I have three half-finished blog posts, an idea for a fourth blog post, an all but for the editing and formatting finished mini-comic.  Three separates stories going in my NaNoWriMo document and I just got the pages for a short comic book story I'm lettering for an anthology.  Because the lettering is a kind of sort of, if it sells a ton I'll get more than a nickel paying gig for someone else, that will take first priority.  The rest of the projects I'm just bouncing from one to the other never really getting any momentum built up.

I also have been skipping out from going to the gym a lot lately.  These things are probably link.  I'm just having a hell of a time getting going with anything.  I find in the morning I end up dragging my feet right thought the gym window (that time when I can both get to the gym in time do a decent work out in and get to work in time).  Then I end up sitting in the shower way too long and getting into work just in a nick of time.  It's almost like I'm paralyzed in the tub, just not able to get myself going.  I know the root cause of that is depression, which is also most likely feeding my ADD after mid-night turning it from a cute Mogwai to a gremlin.

I also know that getting to the gym and getting 30min of cardio a few days in a row will start releasing the chemicals in the my brain to help alleviate the depression.  It just climbing the mountain has been really tough lately.  It all started after I got sick back in September.  Once I got sick it knocked me out of the gym routine.  I would go once and then something would happen and I would miss the rest of the week.  Then I would try, try again with the same results.  I need to break the cycle, somehow.  It think I will try going for a brisk walk tomorrow morning see if I can't get some cardio that way.  Plus I'll pack my gym bag tonight so it is already to go come Monday morning.  I'm also going to make the commitment to go to the gym every day next week here in a public forum.  If you follow me on the book of faces or the site of tweeting, please hold me accountable for this promise.

Despite the current difficulties I have had some good thing happen on a personal front.  They are mostly in the too early to talk about in the blog stage, but some things are breaking the Old Man's way.  It's nice.  I also have gotten some work done one some knitting projects and I have actually finished three things.

I finished and sent out the contest winners fingerless gloves.  Although due to a miscommunication I sent Beth's to her old address.  I may need to make a new set for her, which I don't really mind because I really enjoy making these gloves.  If anyone wants a pair to give as Christmas gift, to yourself or another, let me know.  I guess I'll charge $5 plus materials cost and shipping if need be.

The other thing I made is this cunning hat.  I had left over blue yarn from Lisa's gloves and I thought it would look good paired with black and white.  Turns out I was right I, it looks great.  I roughly based the design off a different hat patter in Son of Stitch and Bitch, a knitting book for making stuff for guys.  My first attempt was nice but covered my whole head.  I shrank down the number of stitches and came up with once that actually fit.

The final thing I finished back in September was the fall Mix.  Check out this post for more info on my mixes

Here's the track list for the Fall 2013 mix:

Artist	Song
The Proclaimers	I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Peter Gabriel	Solsbury Hill
Lyle Lovett	Nobody Knows Me
Fiona Apple	Anything We Want
John Bobek	Quiver (feat. Jodie Schell)
The National	Don't Swallow the Cap
Belle and Sebastian	Expectations (Remastered)
Matt Pond PA	This Is Montreal
Prince	Raspberry Beret
Amanda Palmer & The Grand Theft Orchestra	Want It Back
Tegan and Sara	All You Got
Stevie Wonder	I Wish
Club Bootie	Call Me A Hole (Nine Inch Nails vs. Carly Rae Jepsen)
The Velvet Underground	Stephanie Says
Toad The Wet Sprocket	Crazy Life
Tori Amos	Space Dog
The Doubleclicks	Lasers and Feelings
The Cardigans	Drip Drop Teardrop
Young At Heart	Fake Plastic Trees
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	Time To Move On
Diana Krall	I've Got The World On A String(w\Tony Bennet)

That's all I have for now, back to lettering for the Old Man.  Hopefully the next blog will come sooner.

T.

Being sick and busy definitely slows down the blogging.

I was about half way done writing a post about Netflix and DS9 when I cane down with the cold that has been going around.  It really stopped me in my tracks.  I will try to get that post finished and up later this week. 

The other thing that has been keeping me from updating the blog is the comic book project I have been working on has really been picking up steam.  At this point I have almost all of the finish are work and the first draft of the letting has been completed (I lettered over the roughs so I can just drop it right into the final art)

Along the way I discovered that I love lettering comic books.  Due to the fact I have no natural art skills and atrocious handwriting, I’ve been doing the lettering in illustrator with free fonts from the Internet.  Even with those stumbling blocks I’ve found it a joyous experience.  Time just seems to fly by while I’m lettering.  In fact I’ve had set up a timer when I work so I know when I need to stop.  Otherwise I will spend all day working.

Besides YouTube tutorials on given techniques, I have been reading Scott McCloud’s “Make Comics” and Todd Klein’s section in “The DCComics Guide to Coloring and Lettering Comics.”  Both works have been invaluable to bringing me up to speed.  Other than that, I have learned mostly through a lot of trail and error to solve problems as they have come up.  I’m hoping once this project is done to get some work doing lettering by offering my service free on Digital Webbing.  If you know anyone who need a letter and doesn't mind someone who is still learning please let me know.  Also if you know of any good course in digital letter, I would be interested in that as well.

Here are a couple of snap shots preview, of what’s to come.

 

Till next time

T.

Thyme Traveling Orange Maple Chicken

Back when I started this blog the goal was to make a new dish every other week.  With a few exceptions I was able to meet this goal.  If you look though the back catalog of post you will find it's almost all about food.  You will also find that in almost every of one them Laura is mentioned.  Then had my accident and cooking, along with most everything else became very difficult.  After nearly a year of physical therapy, things are, while not back to normal (I'm still in a bit of constant but manageable pain), cooking is still a little difficult for me.

I'm having a little trouble getting used to cooking for just me.  I have only really cooked a few times since the breakup and when I have I have done little more than followed the recipe I have been given.  Mostly I have been just getting take out or eating quick dirty things like cereal or hot dogs cooked on the Forman.  It's not that I miss her, which I do from time to time (truth be told I have moments of missing all of my ex, all of could have beens and never wases, that just how I am) but I miss having someone to cook for.  I like having someone waiting with excitement about what I was about to create.  I like the validation of seeing one enjoy what I have made.

Yesterday was a truly shitty day at work.  Without going into too many details, everything took longer than it should and I had three separate projects that all need to be done yesterday.  Oh and did I mention that we are moving to a new building on Friday and I've barely started packing.  It was a very draining day.

The silver lining was that I did manage to find that energy to write nearly 500 words after I finished up my work for the day.  I find it easier to write in my office than at home.  Mainly because my desk at work is ergonomic, while my desk at home is designed for a Commodore 64.  That is not actually a joke; my parents bought the desk specifically for our Commodore 64.  The down side is that it was nearly 6:30 by the time I got home.

The day before was Labor Day and I had decided to try my hand at cooking, or at least making the marinade to cook later.  I had a bit of trouble sleeping the night before and end up dragging my feet for most of the day.  By the time I got around to making the marinade, there wasn't really enough time for the chicken to marinate.  I left it in the fridge overnight and had a bowl of Frosted Mini-Wheats with a side of Deep Space Nine on Netflix.  But I did feel a little spark of fun and creativity while created the marinade.  I took a Tangerine-Maple glaze as my staring off point.  From there I ripped out over half the ingredients and added in or change the amounts of twice that many.  Making a creation all my own.

Thyme Orange Maple Marinate

What you will need:

6 skinless boneless chicken thighs

4 cups of orange juice, not from concentrate

6 sprigs of fresh thyme

1 orange

1/3 cup of maple syrup

2 tablespoons of brags soy amino

½ teaspoon of poultry seasoning

¼ teaspoon of curry powder

¼ teaspoon of Hungarian hot paprika

3 bay leaves

½ tablespoon of ground black pepper

2 tablespoons of Olive Oil

A medium saucepan

A zester

A juicer/orange squiser

A large liquid measuring cup

Directions

• Zest the whole Orange and put the zest aside
• Squeeze the juice from the Orange into the measuring cup
• Add enough orange juice to the measuring cup to equal 4 cups
• Add the orange juice and oil to the saucepan
• Bring mixture to a boil
• Pull all the leaves off the Thyme and add to the mixture
• Add the Maple Syrup, Soy Amino, Bay leaves and spices to the pan
• Stir periodically and let the mixture boil down to around two cups
• Turn off heat
• Remove bay leaves and add zest
• Stir and then let mixture cool
• Add chicken and mixture to a freezer bag (or storage bag, but I find freezer bags less likely to leak) and place in the refrigerator overnight.

I come home to the chicken marinated and waiting for me in the fridge.  After the long day I had I was in no mood to do anything.  After siting for five minutes, I get up and start to make the breading for the chicken.  I get the panko crumb mixture prepared and I just run out of juice.  I say screw it and end up heating up some Wegman’s frozen chicken strips.  I pair this with a big glass of water an episode of Deep Space Nine.  By the end of the episode I'm feeling much better.  I realize I hadn't eaten anything since 11:30 that morning.   Not wanting the chicken to go to waste I proceed to gut it out and create my newest dish.  For the first time in nearly a year I have blast cooking.  I'm putting in spice by gut feeling and making notations so I can write it up for the blog.  I have rediscovered my love of cooking.  Tasting the finished product I can tell I enjoyed making it.  Like all creations, the joy in making it shows through.  You can be the most talented person in the world but if you don't like what you're creating, it will always be flawed.

In writing this up I'm happy that the food has turned out so well and that I had fun, but I still have lingering melancholically.  I still wish that I had someone to cook for, someone to share this with.  Telling my co-workers and reader about the awesome dish isn't enough.

Here is the rest of the recipe

What you will need

Olive oil

2 cups of Panko crumbs

3 table spoons of Italian seasoning

1tablespoon of thyme

3 eggs

½ teaspoon of poultry seasoning

Flour

A pie dish

A large baking pan

A large frying pan

2 mixing bows

Paper plates

Directions

• Put the eggs into a mixing bowl and beat them thoroughly
• Mix in 2 tablespoons of Italian seasoning
• Fill the pie dish with flour
• Add the Panko, Thyme, Poultry Seasoning and rest of the Italian Seasoning into the other bowl and mix together
• Spread Panko mixture out on to the baking pan
• Take each piece of marinated chicken and dredge it thought the flour then set aside on a paper plate
• Take each floured piece of chicken and dredge it though the eggs then coat with Panko crumbs, then place it on the paper plate
• Heat oil in frying pan
• Fry each piece of chicken till golden brown on each side, about 1 and half to 2 minutes per side. 

I paired the chicken with Jasmine Rice. my famous Old Man Mitchell’s Tarragon Carrots and some raw Sugar Snap Peas.

Hope you find it as tasty as I did