Classic buttermilk chicken ‘n’ waffles

Chicken second courses

I swear that in a few days I’m going to make something healthy for you but today? Chicken ‘n’ waffles, my fwiendz. A few weeks ago, one of you lovely people told me that I make “happy food” and that seriously about made my day. I’m pretty positive that chicken ‘n’ waffles easily falls into that category. I feel like happy food can be super powerful. It has the ability to make an already awesome, lazy Saturday morning even more lazy and fun; it can make a sucky Tuesday night, post-work, a little less sucky; and it can make a drunken 3am eating session into something nourishing. Happy food is fun. I feel like we should collectively promise ourselves we’re going to eat lots of “fun food” before bathing suit season. Let’s eat waffles today and a salad tomorrow. Do you remember when this writer put Thomas Keller’s fried chicken against The Pioneer Woman’s? It’s a funny article. And super interesting. To paraphrase, she made both of their recipes, exactly as written, and fed both versions to her family. And PW won! Her family loved PW’s version more, while the writer favored Thomas Keller’s. Anyhow! The recipe below for fried …