Fried Chicken!!!

Well, it is super bowl Sunday... Adam is watching TV and I already took my nap, so I'm blogging instead. I'm not much on football, although I do want Seattle to win. Go Seahawks!!! Anyway...

Last night, Adam and I made deep fried chicken wings. We are rather experimental. We heated up the oil in our big pan and even though the chicken wings were only half thawed we tried it anyway. Well, the first one was kinda exciting. First of all, there was too much oil in the pan, second, it was too hot, and third, frozen chicken makes for exciting action in hot oil!! Adam popped one little chicken leg in the pot and the oil practically exploded!!! It bubbled all over the stove, onto the fridge and the floor. Louis came running through and slipped through the oil on the floor and smoke started filling the house. I was like, "Adam, Adam! Put the lid on the oil! What do we do?!?" The lid didn't help, by the way. We had to open the front door and both back doors to let the smoke out. Needless to say we had to let the oil cool down a bit before we tried again. But in the end, Adam does make very tasty chicken wings... deep fried chicken wings. We'll just be a bit wiser on how to go about it next time :) By the way, if anyone knows how to clean off oil that is burned onto my nice new pan, give me some ideas please. It's all caked on there leaving a yellow residue around the outside of the pan. I know my Grandma is excellent at getting pans looking clean and shiny, but I'm not sure I have that much patience...