Fried Chicken (Lorren)

It's taken me a while to post this, but I made fried chicken last Friday night. It was not as hard as I always thought making fried chicken would be and I'm glad to have had the experience. The recipe I used was from allrecipes.com (of course!) and it was quite simple! Here's the recipe I used:

INGREDIENTS
1/2 cup milk
1 egg, beaten
1 cup all-purpose flour
2 teaspoons garlic salt
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon poultry seasoning
1 (4 pound) whole chicken, cut into pieces
3 cups vegetable oil
1 cup chicken broth
1 cup milk

DIRECTIONS
In a medium bowl, beat together 1/2 cup milk and egg. In a resealable plastic bag, mix together the flour, garlic salt, paprika, pepper and poultry seasoning. Place chicken in bag, seal, and shake to coat. Dip chicken in milk and egg mixture, then once more in flour mixture. Reserve any remaining flour mixture.
In a large skillet, heat oil to 365 degrees F (185 degrees C). Place coated chicken in the hot oil, and brown on all sides. Reduce heat to medium-low, and continue cooking chicken until tender, about 30 minutes. Remove chicken from skillet, and drain on paper towels.
Discard all but 2 tablespoons of the frying oil. Over low heat, stir in 2 tablespoons of the reserved flour mixture. Stirring constantly, cook about 2 minutes. Whisk in chicken stock, scraping browned bits off bottom of skillet. Stir in 1 cup milk, and bring all to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Reduce heat to low, and simmer for about 5 minutes. Serve immediately with the chicken. The chicken fried in the pan for 30 minutes (obviously not a healthy meal!) so there wasn't much work. The piece on the left above was some random piece of chicken (looked like the tail?) and had practically no meat on it, so I ended up just throwing it out. I'm not sure if people eat this or not, but it came in the package of chicken so I gave it a try. I won't use it next time.I also had to do two batches of chicken because it didn't all fit in the pan. I made this kind of late at night after Cole had hand surgery and we were impatient, so I tried making the gravy in another pan. Because of this, I didn't have the pan drippings and the gravy was not great. Cole said it wasn't that bad, but I'm not sure I'd even try it again. It probably would be a lot better if I made it exactly like the recipe said to, though, so maybe I would try it. Who knows?

The end product was delicious! I'm not a fried chicken person, but I thought it was pretty good! And Cole, who is definitely a fried chicken person, LOVED it! He gave it a 10! This means a lot coming from him! Not that he's that hard on me, but he just like fried chicken that much!Sorry I don't have any reaction photos, but, like I said, I made it late at night, so Savannah wasn't up and just had left overs the next day. And Cole was recovering from surgery so I didn't think he'd want me taking pictures of him eating his chicken in his boxers :) I'll try to have better photos next time!