Chicken & Waffles Lasagna (kinda)

In case you didnt know I'm a master chef now. Every Sunday I try to cook a big meal that takes me a long time to make. It helps distract me from how pathetic and hungover I usually feel.


Okay so lets get into it. First step was flattening the chicken so it would be thinner for the lasagna. Then I mixed butter milk, hot sauce, onions and garlic and let the chicken sit in that as I watched the yankees struggle to get hits with runners in scoring position.

Then I mixed all these seasonings together. No clue what any of these things do really. But I guess when you mix them together you get a southern fried chicken recipe.

Next step. Take the chicken out of the brine. I didnt shake them off or dry them that much. Feel like I probably should have done that. Don't know.

Dip it in the flower.

Dip it in the egg/hotsauce mixture.

Dip it back in the flower.

TIME TO FRY!

The first time I ever tried to fry something. I dropped the chicken in and it went instantly black. I learned not to make it too hot. Fail forward!

I needed to make a sauce to give it flavor. Debated whether it should be maple syrup based, or mustard based, or something else. In the end I went with mustard. Reason being, to make a lasagna you need cheese. It's what holds everything together. I made pad thai lasagna a couple weeks ago and didn't use cheese cause asians don't use cheese and it didn't hold at all. So since cheese is a must have I went with mustard. Maple syrup and cheese didn't sound like a good mix.

I mixed. Cholula chili garlic hot sauce, spicy brown mustard, and honey. It was quite good.

I used eggo waffles cause eggo waffles are the best waffles and if you disagree with that, thats fine you can have your own opinion.

Trying to stack the layers was when things got dicey and I started doubting everything. Clearly a lasagna wouldn't work. It would be half a foot tall. So basically what I did was make a double decker chicken and waffle sandwich with an open top. Whatever it worked.

Final result. It was delicious. It was hot...cause of all the hot sauce. It was a good hangover cure.

Okay! If you want to follow along with the cooking as it happens next Sunday you can follow me on snap chat. user name is "taste"

Random Update cause I'm bored

It's the biggest snow storm to hit the east coast since 1996 (I almost died in the snowstorm of '96) and I'm in California missing out! Cold weather inst always fun but snow storms are and missing out on this is the first time I've been like 'damn I wish I was back east still.'
      Scratch that, its the second time. When the Golden Globes were on and I couldn't watch it live because I am on Pacific Time that was the first time. Don't mess with my award shows!

I tweeted out about an old flame of mine that I met at an Early November concert back in 2004.

When I was 14 I kissed a girl named Amy at a @theearlynov concert. Never saw her again. Please RT to help find Amy. Could've been the one.
— Jomboy (@Jomboy_) January 18, 2015

and then The Early November retweeted it and I got 40 retweets and 80 favorites in a matter of minutes from concerned people that wanted to help me find Amy. Except in real life her name wasn't Amy. I think it was Rachel but Rachel was too many characters for the tweet so I changed it to Amy. And in real life I talked to her again...kinda. I gave her my number and she called me but I ignored it then never returned her voicemail because I'm a bad guy.

So I apologize to these people who were hoping I'd find her. Especially Jeff Kummer who is the drummer for Early November.

@Jomboy_ @theearlynov I feel you man. Same thing with a girl named Ali at the Troc show where they taped the dvd that never got released.
— Topher Паламарчук (@ohtoph) January 19, 2015

@Jomboy_ @theearlynov damn good luck lol
— Julie Ann (@JulieAP4) January 19, 2015

@JEFFkummer RIGHT?!? So cute.
— Laura Villarreal (@lauravillarreal) January 19, 2015

I'm sure as you all know, the biggest thing to happen to me was the video of my mom being scared by Frank Dog the Fake Dog going viral.



Some Background

I originally went to goodwill to buy Luke a mannequin. They had one that would be perfect, a six feet tall big dude but the lady at Goodwill refused to sell it to me. Which seemed like total bullshit to me at the time. And still does. You're Goodwill, I'm a person with money, give me the mannequin, I give you the money. They weren't even using it to display clothes. It was naked. But they didn't budge. I guess its for the best. Maybe the fake man would have scared my mom even more though.

I gave Luke the dog. He was like cool but no, cause this is a stuffed dog. It was soon after when he realized what a good present it was. Luke was the first person to scare mom. He put it in shotgun of the car, my mom got in the drivers seat, saw the dog and screamed. Then she had to get out cause she forgot something. When she got back in two seconds later she screamed even louder.

Luke told me this information and I got the GoPro out. And now the video was on aol.com msn.com buzzfeed.com hufffingtonpost.com yahoo.com dailymotion.com a ton of local news stations and some other places that I probably don't even know about.

Other Stuff

Here's a video of me laughing at an old man who needs two canes to walk slower than a snail. Life sucks when you get old.





And here's a video tour of my new place in Walnut Creek

Blind Taste Test & Food Reviews

In case you have missed it, my little brother and  I have taken to doing food reviews and blind taste tests. What we've found out is that we are highly unqualified to be doing such reviews. Its either our taste buds are just that far gone or that eating blind really is a big game changer.

Here are the results...

LAY's Chips - this is the fan favorite because Sour Cream and Onion blows our mind

BEN & JERRY'S ICE CREAM

OREOS

WHSKEYS (with Nick)

We are going to try and post a new one every Monday but are running out of ideas, so if you have any don't be shy.

Tinder Fun

Over the weekend my friends and I went down to North Carolina for a little vacation. We had a blast at the beach and local museums and tourist destinations. Just joking, we sat around on Tinder all day. If you don't know what Tinder is, this website will help you find out.

Any way, basically I was trying to see how ridiculous i could get and still get these strangers to respond to me. 

Lets start with Megan. Megan and I talked about vacations in Jamaica and my legless brother.

Next came Victoria. Victoria was RELENTLESS. She just kept on responding. She also helped me save a friendship with my lactose intolerant friend Nick.

Mackenzie helped settle a bet that ended up getting Ken really hurt.

Meredith wasn't shy about her racism, so I thought I'd try to dig deeper into that

Chloe was actually very attractive and apparently the nicest girl ever. Either that or she called my bluff perfectly. ASL means American Sign Language

Maria initiated conversation with me and we bonded over our lazy eyes.

Now here are all the girls that were smart enough to never respond and hopefully block me.