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No recipe for tonight – just a simple ode to one of my favorite home cooked meals of all time – fried chicken and waffles. I have never been ‘down south’, but given my love for most southern dishes, I feel like I’d fit right in down in Savannah! Shrimp and grits, buttermilk biscuits, peach cobblers, and ofcourse fried chicken with waffles – as the song goes, these are a few of my faaavotire things!
Fried chicken with waffles is just one of those perfectly balanced food pairings that offer such a delightful contrasts of tastes and textures- sweet and savory, crispy and soft, tender and with a bite. The dark golden skin of the chicken pairs with the light brown waffle to present some form of a foodie yin and yang – yes, my friends, the first time I savored these two items together in one place, at a now defunct hole-in-the-wall in St.Mark’s Place, the experience was nothing short of religious.
This is also the perfect home-cooked meal to provide some much needed comfort during the long cold winter days; I usually make this for Sunday brunch before I curl up on the couch for an 8 hour football marathon. I’ll post the recipes individually for these somewhere along the line, but just know that nothing is easier that throwing in some chicken pieces to fry while you whip up a batch of whichever waffles you want – I like something hearty with this like my Wheatgerm Waffles.
Making this at home lets you control the greasiness of the chicken, and ensure your waffles are healthy enough to make this sinful Southern Treat almost good for you! You can make the chicken however you want – the traditional buttermilk-fried variety, or my favorite – spicy cajun style. Drizzle on some warm maple syrup onto the waffles, allow some of the syrup to coat the chicken, grab a bottle (or three) of your favorite brew and settle down for some crispy, crunchy, sweet and delicious taste nirvana….you might love the dish so much you may just start talking with a twang!