The Baking Girl: Copycat Recipe And Oven-Baked Chicken

At least once a week The Baking Girl is in-charge of making dinner.  I cannot tell you exactly when she took interest in cooking but I can tell you that as much as she enjoys cooking she prefers baking.  That makes us exact opposites, I prefer cooking. One of her favorite dinners is the oven-roasted chicken legs. For her age it is very easy and doesn't require too many complicated steps. It's so easy that she doesn't even measure any of the ingredient.  She does taste it to make sure it is seasoned to everybody's liking.

The ingredients for the breading are some combination of the following - flour, salt, pepper, garlic powder, seasoned salt (Lawry's), parmesan cheese.  Normally she doesn't use eggs to help the breading stick but since the egg-allergic brother is at Summer Camp all week she wanted to see if eggs will make it taste better.  Honestly, I don't think it made a difference but you're allowed to think I'm wrong ;-)

Proof that we are well fed- 

egg for the breading

look ma, no measuring

I don't think we can survive without Lawry's...

...and parmesan

...and foil (for easy clean up)

dinner was a success

She also did a copycat recipe of Pizza Hut's garlic bread stick using the recipe from this dizzying Pinterest post.  I actually do not know how she was able to read all of that but she did.  For the dipping sauce she just used leftover spaghetti sauce from a couple of nights ago. I honestly think this tasted better than Pizza Hut's as it isn't as greasy and I knew exactly what ingredients went in it.  

Enjoy - 

see what I mean by dizzying recipe? source here

but she did it, the dough looked and smelled lovely

brushing on the garlic butter - yum!

Get your kids cooking this Summer!