branching out to “fine cooking”

If you ever click on the recipe links in my posts you know that everything has come from allrecipes.com.  And with all the “rave reviews” I have been giving myself, my mother decided to try the site out for herself, much to her disappointment.  So she sent me an email listing some of her favorite recipe websites which I promised to try.  Of course, they all require you to register and I don’t like registering with too many websites, so it was hard to find a recipe.  But for some reason, I was able to view BUTTERMILK COUNTRY FRIED CHICKEN WITH CUCUMBER SALAD on finecooking.com.

With the first couple bites I wasn’t too impressed… the cucumber salad tasted too much like pickles due to the dill and the chicken was good, but only on the outside.  But I soon adjusted to the strong dill taste and when dinner was over my plate was practically licked clean.  Not the best meal I’ve made thus far, but it is definitely up there toward the top and I know my boyfriend will request it again once we start getting into repeats.

As far as website review goes, I still like allrecipes the best, due mostly to the organization rather than quality of the recipes.  I am a sucker for clean looking and user-friendly websites.  I will probably end up registering for finecooking though too, mainly because I like that a lot of the recipes are full meals, combining main course with side dish.  I put way too much thought into pairing the right side dish with the right main course, so this attribute could give me back a few hours to my week!

Thanks Mom

Click the link below for recipe:

BUTTERMILK COUNTRY FRIED CHICKEN WITH CUCUMBER SALAD