An Attempt at Fast Food (without the fast, but hopefully with more health)

If there's one good thing that's come out of the whole Chick-Fil-A fiasco, it's that a ton of copy-cat recipes have come out online. Now, I'm not necessarily one for cheating or stealing, but I'm also trying to provide my family with healthier, cheaper, home-cooked alternatives to all of the crap we waste our money on on a daily basis. Anyway, after I bought my coconut oil from good ole Trader Joe's, I immediately started searching the web for recipes to use it in, during which I found this website. Their "coconuts" apparently, always posting new recipes for things with coconut oil. Well, since I didn't have all of the seasonings needed for this other non-knock-off recipe, I bought some chicken and got to work. You'll have to be proud of me. This was probably the first recipe that I actually did the prep work for. Usually I rush stuff or I just don't do that recipe if it has something like "let it sit for 2-4 hours"...plus, I generally just dip my chicken in egg and then cover it with whatever bread crumbs or what not I'm using when I fry it. It's also just a miracle I thought to do it before it was time; usually time creeps up on me and before I know it, it's too late to do the recipe I wanted. Anyway, so the only ways I deviated from the recipe were that I put half pepper/half paprika instead of a full teaspoon of pepper and that I figured I wouldn't go through the hassel of buying or making powdered sugar for two tablespoons of the stuff (which I do think might have affected it). Overall though, it was pretty good. They didn't quite have that Chick-Fil-A taste, but that's okay. I also paired it with (a can of veggies-*gasp*and) fries that were simple cut and peeled potatoes; coated in olive oil; sprinkled with parmesan cheese, salt, rosemary, and sage; and placed in the oven on a cookie sheet for 35 minutes at 450 degrees. So, though it all didn't turn out exactly the way I planned, it was much cheaper than taking the family out for dinner and hopefully a tad bit healthier (the fries weren't fried and I used coconut and olive oils instead of whatever they use at the restaurant. Until next time, Happy Eating!