Always Room for a First- even for Mommy!

Yesterday was my first experience with chicken drumsticks. Not my first experience eating them, but my first experience buying & cooking them. I saw this yummy looking recipe on a blog i read & the boys love drumsticks when Mema cooks them, so i wanted to try it out, mostly wanted to anyway. Most of you know i am weird about touching raw meat & especially that with bones in! YUCK! Anyway, i passed these .99c/lb drumsticks last week & passed them over because even though i wanted to, i just didn't think i could do it! So yesterday when i was shopping again, i saw them still on sale for the last day & decided to bite the bullet! After all, i was going to be getting 2 meals out of a $4.20 purchase so my squeamishness was overruled by my frugality! When i got home, i called a friend (thanks again, Randi) who helped me through pulling the skin off of the legs. (I am about to gag even now as i type this!) Honestly, the gloves helped a LOT & i did dry heave once, but i made it through pulling that TOUGH (as a bird) skin off! So that was really the only hard part, then it was onto breading which was a breeze. But the problem again came back when it was time to eat it (which i thought might happen), i could only eat one, & i didn't finish it. It was good, but when i cook meat like that, i have a really hard time eating it after i have done all that mess with it! But i will most likely do it again, at least once to use up the other half of the package i froze, & maybe i will graduate to making a whole chicken or something??? Maybe, or maybe not! But for the record, i am so proud of myself (& i know my mama is too!) So the proof is in the pudding..... and here's the pudding.....

And when Randy got home from work, dinner was ready & waiting & as i was beaming with pride waiting for a reaction to this new dinner, he says, "Oh, we are having Shake & Bake?" To say the least, i was ever so slightly deflated... But he recanted with "What? I like shake & bake" But he also likes Hamburger Helper so this isn't saying much! I clarified for him exactly all i had done to make these beautiful legs (of 3 and a half chickens!- let it go Rach, let it go!)