Allie's Baked Chicken Crust

Here's an easy recipe for crispy chicken from our friend Allie:

Buy chicken legs, wings, etc.

Prepare for oven.

Separate 2eggs in a bowl and stir until the yolk is as smooth as the white.

Pour in 1 cup of corn flakes and mix evenly.

Use a wooden spoon to spread over the chicken and bake.


My mother taught me how to make them!

Livvy's Ode to an Apple

An apple is red
and juicy too.
It's so good, the taste
goes from my head to my shoe.

An apple is green,
just like a pea.
And everyone knows
that they come from a tree.

An apple is yellow
and very round.
And when I bite it,
it makes a crunchy sound.

- Olivia Gerasole

Livvy invites you to send us your fruit poems.

Mustard Festival in Mt. Horeb, WI

Belle and Liv took a trip to celebrate National Mustard Day in Mt. Horeb, Wisconsin. Here they are with the Duchess of Mustard in all her golden finery. There they found out that mustard is the condiment of kings and the King of Condiments.

National Mustard Day has wacky fun for every taste. There was accordian music and a rock band, plus games like Fishing for Mustard and Mustard Bowling. Artists could try their hand at painting with mustard.

Three thousand hot dogs were sold (with mustard of course) for the benefit of charity. And the Spatulatta girls learned how to make mustard pasta from Chef Peter Robertson. No, the mustard wasn't on the pasta, the mustard was in the pasta dough.

The Festival is put on every year by the World Famous Mustard Museum. The museum has the world's largest collection of mustards - 4,800 in all. You can sample many of them in the museum's gift shop: Cranberry Mustard, Champagne Mustard and even Chocolate Mustard.

And if you can't make it to the Mustard Museum, the museum will ship to you. Because friends don't let friends eat k*#@*%!

Strawberry S'mores

This recipe is from our friend Janie in Lexington, Kentucky. Janie is the creator of Berry Dip-and-Roll. The recipe is in our new Spatulatta cookbook.

Ingredients:

5 large strawberries
4 graham crackers - crushed
1 jar of marshmallow fluff
1 cup of chocolate chips

Melt the chocolate chips in the microwave for about 30 seconds. Check them often because they can go from melted to burned in an eyeblink.

Take a strawberry and cut out the stem. Dip in chocolate and let it harden.

Then cover it in marshmallow fluff.

Next roll it in graham cracker crumbs until completely covered.

Enjoy!