Personal Memory by Mariann

I was just in the kitchen making dinner for my husband: Oven fried Chicken, dipping the chicken pieces in seasoned flour, then in an egg and milk bath, then back into the seasoned flour. I suddenly remembered one day when my Brother Rex had come over to our apartment in Sonora for dinner. He had arrived about 2 hours before dinner, the first time I think he was ever early for anything. We had talked and I started to prepare dinner. Rex was watching and asked if he could do something to help. I had a bunch of things going so I said he could help me with the oven fried chicken. I prepared the seasoned flour in a large bowl, while he sprayed sheet pans with non stick. I whipped the egg and milk mixture in another bowl and showed him how to dip from the flour , shake it off and then onto the sheet pan, telling him when he finished that I would show him the next step. This was the easiest way to do it and the cleanest way I knew.

When he finished, he actually thought he was done, ha. I then showed him step 2 take chicken from sheet pan into the egg and milk mixture with one hand and with the other into the flour again and back onto the sheet pan. I said "... like Karate Kid Movie... wax on, wax off. Egg on with one hand , flour on with the other." He was so serious and tried very hard. Known for His famous 8 finger biscuits, I thought he would have it down in no time. By the time he finished, he was so sticky and gummy, both hands, eight fingers, up all past his wrists, and just a mess. Then he tried to get it off. I was watching and a few moments went by when he said in his high pitched little boy voice, "Its S-T-I-C-K-Y!!!!!!"

He was so funny to watch. He had created a huge gummy mess between the egg milk and flour mixture, I laughed so hard - we both did. That was so fun and such a great memory of Rex!! Just us cooking together, and laughing so hard! Good Times!