My Thanksgiving Thoughts

While I’m in the kitchen cooking with my dad and little sister with the sounds of energetic little boys and The Channel 7 News surround me I think to myself just how lucky I am.

Gratitude List:

My Family - they always make me smile even when I really don’t want to

Food - the best thing to relax me after an intense swim practice

My home - provides me with shelter and warmth

Music/Earbuds - whenever I’m in a bad mood, nervous for a swim meet, or I just don’t feel like talking to anybody I can just listen to my music and block it out

My bike - since I can’t drive yet my bike is my go to for quick transportation

Diversity - the world would be a boring place without diversity

Great Health - I can do all the things I love

Holidays - they don’t call it “the most wonderful time of the year” for nothing

Sibling bonds - there’s nothing quite like it when you  just have that special moment with your built in best friends

Food, Glorious Food

If I had to pick a favorite food, I would probably pick deep fried chicken. I make deep fried chicken all the time with my dad and my little sister and I've picked up a few tips on how to make it perfect.

HOW TO MAKE DEEP FRIED CHICKEN:

Ingredients:

• Deep fryer
• Oil
• Bowls
• Seasonings
• Flour
• Chicken (Preferably frozen and store bought so you don't have to kill anything)

Steps:

1.  Defrost the chicken
2.  Pour oil into deep fryer until it comes up to the line inside
3.  Plug in the deep fryer and turn knob to 400 degrees (leave it to heat up)
4.  Rinse your chicken in room temperature tap water
5.  Once you're done rinsing place the chicken on a cutting board and begin seasoning
6.  After you're done seasoning fill a bowl half way with flour
7.  After you fill the bowl half way with flour take your meat and mix it around in the bowl until it's covered
8.  Repeat process until all of the pieces of chicken are covered in flour
9.  Place the flour coated chicken in the hot oil
10.  Wait
11.  Once chicken starts to float it's done and you can fish it out and dig in
12.  Enjoy

My amazing recipe for deep fried chicken would beat Bobby Flay any day.