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CHICKEN by Shauna Ferry
February is an underrated month. Some people feel it's just depressing – it’s cold, the holidays are over, New Year's resolutions have already gone out the window, and Valentine’s Day is overrated and just another “all about the money” holiday.
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personally love February. As a dairy farmer, this is the quietest and most relaxing month we have in the whole year. February is the month in which everyone should self-reflect and try new things! For my part, I’m reading new books and continuing to make new meals with as many locally made items as possible. It really makes dinner fun and I’ve become conscious of looking at labels to find out where my food is coming from.
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For my part, I’m reading new books and continuing to make new meals with as many locally made items as possible. My husband, Andrew, chose one of the meals of the week we took on. It was a delicious, but a feel-good, football Sunday kind of meal: southern-style fried chicken sandwiches. Andrew is constantly finding
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recipes that consist of some type of deep fried anything – chicken, turkey, okra, broccoli. He loves following different people on TikTok who make all these creative deep-fried recipes, so this was a meal he has been
wanting to try for a long time. This recipe was basic, so I didn’t use a whole lot of local ingredients, but I did my best to use what I could. Firstly, I needed chicken breast. I haven’t found any local farms that sell chicken breast, but I did go to a local meat shop, Gene’s Meat Market in Westport. I always have good experiences with Gene’s. Their meat is fresh and the pricing is always great. Another thing about Gene’s is the