fried chicken and honey butter biscuits

My big brother has a great camera.

He also has:

an inborn talent for art

a job

a bat-mobile (okay, a Camaro)

and Vibram Five Fingers shoes.

When he came over for dinner Saturday night, I asked him to bring at least the camera (to photograph our fried chicken, of course). Nice break from the iPhone photo shoots, I’d say. Thanks bro.

Fried Chicken

For brine: buttermilk, bayleaf, salt, peppercorns, garlic, honey, thyme

For coating: flour, salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne, paprika

To fry: peanut oil

I loosely followed Thomas Keller's recipe (but used my own recipe for the brine) which can be found at http://passthesushi.com/kiss-the-cook-for-thomas-kellers-ad-hoc-fried-chicken

Honey Butter Biscuits

2 cups of flour

3 teaspoons baking powder

1 teaspoon salt

5 tablespoons salted butter, cubed

2/3 cup of buttermilk

Honey

Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Grease a cookie sheet.

In a large bowl, sift in flour, baking powder and salt. Cut in butter until the mixture resembles cornmeal. Mix in 2/3 cup of buttermilk and combine well with a large wooden spoon.

Place dough on floured service, roll out and cut into circles with a biscuit cutter (or the lid of something).

Cook for 15-18 minutes until golden brown. Remove from oven and promptly brush with more butter then honey over the tops. Serve immediately and with honey to pour over or dip!