The Lady and The Beard

                                                                 March 27, 2013
I'm gonna start this post with I love Tribe hummus but, it is no longer sold in my town or I can't find it in any of my grocery stores anymore. However, when I visited my daughter we found it at Walmart go figure. I stocked up and now have some in my freezer :) Anyway, on to my post. I have been seeing a recipe for baked fried chicken so, decided to give it a try I also, made it gluten free. This one comes from www.ourlifeuncommon.com . I also, made a side dish that I have made before and it comes from www.eezyrecipes.com .

                                                  Baked Fried Chicken

Place thawed chicken breast tenderloin strips in a bowl of milk. Let soak for 20-30 minutes.
Mix in a gallon size Ziploc bag or a large bowl:
1/2 tsp. salt
1 Tbls. seasoned salt
3/4 tsp. pepper
1c. flour, I used a gluten free all purpose flour
2 tsp. paprika

Preheat oven to 400. Cut 1/2 stick butter into a few pieces and place in a 9x13 pan. Melt butter in pre-heated oven.
Spread butter around the bottom of pan. Lightly spray the pan, if needed, to make sure there are no dry spots.
Shake excess milk off of chicken and completely coat each piece with the seasoning mix. You can either shake the chicken in the bag until coated, or dip each in bowl until coated.
Place each piece of chicken in the pan. Cook for 20 minutes. Turn each piece and continue cooking for 20 more minutes or until cooked through.

My note: I used boneless, skinless thighs cut into strips instead of the tenderloins. If you use tenderloins you will need to adjust your cooking time after flipping the chicken so, they don't dry out.

                                                Creamy Garlic Broccoli

Cook the broccoli however you'd like: roast it, steam it, saute it then toss in the garlic hummus

My note: As I said, I have made this before and since, I had my Tribe hummus decided to do it again. I roasted the broccoli because I think it gives it more flavor. Just toss it with a little olive oil cooking spray, salt and pepper and bake in a 400 oven for about 20 minutes.

The chicken was very tasty however, I think when I do this again I will cut down on the butter in the pan. It was crispy and tasted just like fried chicken should and the broccoli tossed with the hummus is just so good, words can't describe it :) Enjoy!!!!

Here's another poke cake. It will be my last for awhile the bearded fella says he'd like to lose a few pounds and would I not make anymore cakes for awhile.