Healthy Brownies- (Wheat Bread)

I just got a new Kitchen Aid mixer and have been trying to make wheat bread for about two weeks. Last night my husband told me we were out of bread and wanted to know if he should go to the store. Being the tight wad I am I told him, no I will just make some bread and it will save us money on gas and buying a loaf of bread. I have made bread three times before this, so in my head I am all ready the "BREAD QUEEN".
I went to get one of my cookbooks, but could not remember which recipe and cookbook I had been using to make the bread. I figured it was no big deal, so I put three cookbooks down on the table and randomly picked a book. I ended up picking the small book that came with my mixer. The recipe was nothing like I remembered. Two packages of yeast? Oh well that will work....I think.
I remembered (or maybe I dreamt) someone telling me to always heat the mixing bowl first before activating the yeast. That ended up being a great idea. When I have made bread in the past it was so hard that I have been able to use it for a door stop or a tool to keep trespassers off my property.But this bread was really soft and tasty.
I followed the recipe completely this time. Whew that is a relief. But only one problem I could find is that my bread was not very tall. Sure it is tasty and I didn't burn it, but why was it short? My pan was too wide! I have been using the wrong size of pan for baking my bread. It sure is tasty bread though, I just wish some one had told me not to use a Brownie sheet when making my bread. I guess I will have to suck up my pride and cheapness and go buy the right baking pan.

Basic Bread
1/2 cup milk
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons butter
2 packages of active dry yeast
1 1/2 cups warm water
5-6 cups flower
If you would like step by step on how to make this (using the proper baking pan) please let me know!

Fried Chicken

So this is my first blog ever! I hope you can learn from my mistakes. Yesterday, I decided that since we had some chicken thighs in the freezer I was going to make some old fashion fried chicken. I prefer to use chicken thighs when I cook because I always seem to over cook chicken breast. Ok I will be honest, the main reason I use chicken thighs is because I am cheap! I can spend around 7 bucks on a big package of chicken thighs at Costco and it will last me a very long time.
I cook all the time, but some how have tried to avoid doing fried chicken. I guess I was afraid of the unknown of doing fried chicken. Some people may think that it is an easy process, but people do fried chicken so many different ways, it was a bit confusing to me. Finally, I sucked up my pride and ventured out into Youtube land to find a simple yet tasty recipe for fried chicken. I stumbled upon one that said KFC recipe. I thought, "ohh the secret recipe for the famous KFC chicken, this looks simple and tasty, I have to do this". So here is the recipe, please read all of this blog before trying!!!!!!!!!!
Marinate the chicken in
1 tablespoon of soy sauce
 garlic salt -PLEASE NOTE- the guy dumped soo much in there I could smell the garlic salt from the computer screen so I only used about 2 tablespoons of garlic salt
1 tablespoon of pepper
and a bunch of five spice seasoning-Big Mistake!
Marinate for about 4 hours or longer.
for dipping he wanted you to add the exact same stuff that you put in the marinate in the flower. Well I didn't do that and I am so grateful I didn't!
I just did a pan of flower with some pepper to dip the chicken thighs, then dipped it in a pan with a couple of eggs mixed in it, then dipped the chicken in another pan of panko bread crumbs.
I heated my oil in a cast iron skillet but put too much oil in the pan that it covered almost the whole chicken.Apparently, you want the oil to cover half of the chicken when cooking. I cooked on both sides for about 7 minutes.
I have to say the chicken came out great. It was golden brown, cooked all the way, and juicy. But then I tried it! The five spice seasoning came back to haunt me just like a bad first date! The seasoning left this overwhelming taste in my mouth. How could I just sit there and let my husband and child eat this horrible thing? The one and only thing that kept me from throwing the chicken out and taking my family to KFC for dinner was money. We all powered down the chicken and trying to imagine it actually tasted good.
What a waste of time and money on this KFC recipe, at least that is what I thought until a light bulb came on in my head today! Chicken Soup!
I used the left over fried chicken thighs to make one of the best soups I have ever made. I kept it simple, carrots, celery, chicken broth,potatoes,green beans, onions, and that dreadful chicken. I just tried my cheap leftover soup and I was surprised that it was THE best soup I have ever made. What made this soup so good? I have to admit it was horrible five spice seasoning that coated the chicken the day before.
I am going to take this as a learning experience and never use five spice for fried chicken, but always use it for my chicken soup!
One more thing, I just watched that Youtube video again and the kfc recipe actually was for Korean Fried Chicken, not the KFC chicken joint. My bad, that just teaches me to really listen to the video before trying it, but I am still glad I did.