Southern Fried Chicken and Gravy
(One of T. M. Simmons' favorite dishes)
(One of T. M. Simmons' favorite dishes)
1 cut-up chicken
3 cups flour2 tbls. corn starch
1 tbl. baking powder
½ cup canola oil
1 can condensed milk
Salt and pepper
Lay chicken in sink and sprinkle both sides with salt and
pepper to taste. (If you want, you can freeze the back for noodles later rather
than cook it.)
Combine flour, corn starch and baking powder. Shift
together.Heat oil in large iron skillet to high heat.
When oil is ready, dredge chicken pieces in flour mixture and add to oil. (Save flour mixture for gravy.) Cook each side until nicely browned, then lower heat to medium low and finish cooking, turning often so chicken doesn't burn.
When done, remove chicken from skillet and drain on paper towels.
Pour off excess oil until there is only a thin layer in the bottom of the skillet, leaving in any small pieces of chicken or skin that came off during cooking.
Turn heat back up to medium high and sprinkle 3-4 tbls of flour mixture into oil.
Stir until flour begins to brown.
Turn heat down to medium and pour in one can of condensed milk, stirring as you add it. Add water if gravy is too thick.
When gravy is thickened, turn off heat and serve it with your fried chicken and mashed potatoes. Yum!
Ghost Hunting Diary Volume III – Review by Martha A. Cheves, Author of Stir, Laugh, Repeat; Think With Your Taste Buds; A Book and A Dish
***Billy and Lucy York had been to Goshen Cemetery
once previously with two other ghost hunters. From what they told me, I wanted
to visit this historic graveyard myself. I wasn’t deterred by the rumors
and tales abounding about Goshen, nor by the fact invitations to a few other
paranormal investigator friends to join us were turned down flat. Word
about evil entities and how dangerous Goshen could be had spread through the
paranormal community for years. Perhaps I should have been more
forearmed, but hindsight is perfect vision.***
Reading this Author’s diaries has been quite
fascinating to me and as soon as I finish one, I can’t wait to read the
next. Her experience in the Goshen Cemetery would have scared the heck
out of me but what happened as they were leaving would have probably given me a
heart attack.
As her diary went on through other outings, I
was drawn to wishful thinking when she told about her short chat with a Dr.
Griffith who was examining her ‘horseless carriage’ one night while she was
visiting a friend. That’s one event I think I would have enjoyed after my
heart rate slowed down just a bit.
The Ghost Hunting Diaries all take you into what
most of us can call the unknown. For T. M. Simmons, it has become the
purpose of her life to deal with those who haven’t passed over yet and to
encourage them to make the decision to leave their ‘unlife’ for a peaceful one
on the other side. But all isn’t fun and games when it comes to
ghosts. Some are humorous and enjoy playing jokes while others are quite
evil and enjoy wreaking havoc on those around them. And some are simply demonic
and quite dangerous.
This is the third Ghost Hunting Diary that I’ve had
the pleasure of reading and as I said, I can’t wait to dig into Volume
IV. If you like a good ghost/sprit story, you won’t want to miss T. M.
Simmons’ own personal accounts of being a paranormal investigator. They
have sparked my interest.