In addition to the homemade cookbook the kiddos gave me a few years back, they also gave me a great cook book of “lost suppers” one year. It’s called: Cook’s Country: Best Lost Suppers-yup, it’s from the PBS series. It’s filled with old-time, from-scratch, we-don’t-count-calories, big-supper recipes. Each one comes with a short back story and an explanation of how the recipe was tweaked by the test kitchen. Only problem – I have hardly used the cookbook.

Cook’s Country:Best Lost Suppers

So, in our never-ending quest to find something different for supper that the kiddos will eat I gave the them the cookbook and told them to pick something. Potato Boy took the book and disappeared for the next 15 minutes. When he came back, he had tabbed the recipe for Coke Oven Fried Chicken. (The recipe is a reference to the east coast coalminers and the coke ovens common in the area.)

So last Saturday I opened the cookbook and a family pack of drumsticks – I didn’t realize they even sold family packs of drumsticks until I was looking for a chicken for this recipe – and got to work. It was a hit with the kiddos. (I may even share it as a “Tasty Tuesday” down the road.) Especially with the potatoes I sliced thin and fried as chips to go with it. Even though I don’t see the DW and I frying chicken on a regular basis, I think I accomplished what I set out to do… before Sissy was finished with her second drumstick, she had already asked when she could pick out the next new recipe. I’ll let you know what she picked.