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The Adventurous Eaters Club

Hi buddies! Welcome to the first post of yet another project I have chosen to take on because I apparently don’t enjoy sleep in any form.

To make this even more FUN, let’s do a THING (just in time for #RACultivatingKindness and the Random Acts Food Equity initiative)

One hundred percent of author proceeds from Misha’s cookbook go to charity, including the following: The Edible Schoolyard The Garden School Foundation Whatcom Farm-to-School Fund

One week after each blogpost I do for this little adventure, I will count up the notes on that post and donate $1 per note to one of the above, or to @randomactsorg.

If you make a donation to any of these (in any amount!) or buy Misha’s cookbook and send me the receipt in my asks I will match your donation AND you can pick the next thing I cook!

[I say this like I have clout here, but hey why not feed some people, do a little good, and make this interactive!]

With all the preliminaries aside, let’s cook some chicken, under the cut!

(warning: the photos below the cut contain pictures of raw chicken in case that is a “ew” trigger for anyone. just warning ya)

Mix ‘N’ Match “Fried” Chicken (page 169)

This is a baked fried chicken tender recipe with three different spice mixtures (for those with children, the intent is to introduce them to diff flavors and also make them less fearful of food with ‘specks’ (or speckles, as L calls them)).

**The first thing I said reading this was “Dammit Misha! Am I just casually supposed to own a meat mallet?” (does everyone? have I missed out on the meat mallet trend? fallen behind the curve of cool culinary utensil ownership? *hangs head in shame*)

First things first, I’m going to go rogue and tell you that after you cut your chicken breast into tenderloins (or open the package of pre-cut ones), you should salt your meat for at least an hour before cooking it.

Like so:

pre-salting meat allows it to be seasoned from the inside as well as the outside (the salt will absorb), and also helps lower the risk of overcooking. I promise it makes a HUGE difference.

While the chicken is salting, set up your dredging station.

This is the point in the process where I realized I am out of eggs. However, I did have the following substitutes: 1. mayo and 2. half and half. So what did I do? I mixed them (Misha I’m SORRY).

I am also sorry to you who is reading this post for having to look at photos of mayonnaise and half and half on this fine day.

But! this does work in a pinch. You basically need something runny enough to dip but thick enough to stick to the meat.

Also, here is another place Mish and I diverge - he kept the “wet” pan as a single one on the station, but I know how messy I am (in both cooking and life), and due to there being three separate spices in the recipe I divided it into three, so as not to mix it.

[somewhere Jake Abel has been summoned to make a few, um, jokes about this...composition]

Next, the “dry” station - i.e. your flour/spices. The book uses pie pans for all of this, I - a prepared individual who did not assess not having ANY uniform cookware before starting this cooking blog journey - only had one pie pan, so these are what I used:

team free will 3.0

here they are with spices for each separate one. do not fear the cinnamon. I too, was once afraid. trust me when I say you will no longer be shackled by your doubt once you have tried this.

also, I went rogue again on the last spice mixture which should just be paprika but I did not have paprika (OP check your pantry before you do the next installment of this challenge), so that is the combination I recklessly replaced with it (and I recommend it!!!).

spices plus flour plus salt (for the love of Jack always add salt at each step, I cannot re-emphasize enough that this is so very important, like Sam and Dean hotel room warding important).

Mix ‘em up.

sigh I can already tell my colors will not be as vibrant as the book’s (I know you, you’re thinking ‘OP you just mixed mayo and half and half, and THIS is the crime you are sad about?? but. here we are).

Next, Misha says to wrap your chicken in plastic wrap.

no, I don’t know why mine is green. let’s pretend its for Soldier Boy.

time to use the meat mallet which I do not have. however, in a pinch - a cast iron skillet will do. (the book also very much advocates for owning one of these and I too am a Cast Iron Truther. the only pan(s) I use).

meat mallet cosplay.

now,“smash that meat until it’s 3/4 of an inch thick.”

this takes approximately 30 seconds to a minute with the cast iron (longer if you have pent up aggression). it’s not a REQUIRED step, but nice for an even cook.

take your flat chicken and start dredgin’ - flour first, just a thin coat

on each side

now take it for a trip to the half and half mayo hot girl summer pool party (or, if you are a real adult unlike yours truly, the eggs you have and previously whisked together for your “wet” pan)

[stop that thought this is a blog for a children’s cookbook]

let the excess run off before sticking this back in the dry mixture for a second coat, then put it on your pre-greased pan.

like so.

what my kitchen looked like at 1:00 a.m.

final touch = the moment I knew Misha, Vicki, and I were kindred spirits as I too like to drizzle melted butter over everything and anything.

drizzle this liquid gold on top of each piece and

pop those babies in the oven at 350 for 20-30 minutes while you write bad fan fiction sentences (well, what I did then anyway)

then slice ‘em up and put them on this plate.

Yes I added popcorn for garnish as a treat.

My colors as predicted are not as good as the professional food photographer’s Misha’s:

But the flavors were definitely there!! Especially the cinnamon. Would 10/10 recommend.

Happy cooking! Asks are open if you have questions or want to yell at me about the mayo thing. SORRY AGAIN OK

#adventurouseatersclub #longpost #spn cast #Misha Collins #cooking #tw: food #let me know if you want me to do a taglist for this and I will #supernatural #spn

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clovemerablog · 3 years

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Journal 8 - BMSP Songwriting and Composition

Workflow.

This week, our lecturer shared her workflow with us. It proved helpful to gain insight into a working artist's process. And it seemed so simple, but I felt like my life had been revolutionised when she said she uses a file management system. I somewhat have a system in place, but it could use improvement. Sessions with multiple versions and drafts go in their own sub-folders within my larger Logic folder.

The workflow begins with idea conception, inclusive of assembling reference playlists to inform the track’s inspiration. My lecturer would create a messy demo and then clean it up and seek input from collaborators or trusted ears. From there, she mixes the song and takes care of saturation, reductive eq and balances levels. What stands out to me is that she references her track against the inspiration songs. That’s another one of the simple-but-not-obvious-to-me moments.

And that’s because my workflow is different. I have one track, which is the secret and part of a future project, where I had two major inspirations and wanted to bridge for two together. I’ll tease and say it was a mix of Grimes and Caroline Polacheck. The song ended up really different to both and was incredibly unique. I love it for what it became and am satisfied that it doesn't sound exactly like the two inspiration tracks. But in the future, I will have tracks I'm trying to emulate and pay homage to. In those instances, I’ll compare mine with theirs.

Re an hear to share my music with, I think I have someone. He's a course buddy and has been making music with Ableton for years. In semester one (earlier this year), I shared a demo with him and his input really blasted the track into another dimension! Let’s hope I’ll always have someone to share my material with.

Lately, I've been thinking about my workflow and how to be more deliberate with it. I think for me, track conception can be producing the words first and orienting music around it, or making music first and adding words to it after. The latter is the case in the last blog post’s attached song. I wanted to make a full song and add the words after. Funnily enough, when I want to make a happy or shallow pop song, I don't know how. I think to myself, “How the hell does somebody write happiness?!” But if I have an instrumental ready to go, it becomes so much easier! Just sing and make stuff up as sections play on loop. Saying this serves as a revelation that perhaps there are different workflows for different intended purposes. If I want to make something catchy and goofy, I need to make the music first. If I want it to be heartfelt meaningful, I develop the words first!

So, that’s all from me for now.

Signing off,

Clove 💕

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