World's Best Onion Rings

Why pay big bucks in a restaurant when you can make these at home for fresh!? I've played around with recipes and here's one that is a great side dish every time.

INGREDIENTS:
1 large white onion, (sliced and seperated into rings) per eater
2 cups flour
2 TBSP Wondra
1 tsp fresh ground pepper
1 1/2 tsp paprika
1 1/2 tsp extra virgin olive oil
1 - 1 1/2 good pale ale at room temp
Mediterranean salt to taste
Vegetable oil for deep frying

DIRECTIONS:
Slice onions, set aside. Using large bowl, mix all ingredients except beer. Add one beer slowly and stir til lump-free. Add more Wondra if needed to thicken, or more beer to thin out. You want the batter to cling to the rings, not run off.

Using a fondue pot or deep fat fryer, heat vegetable oil to 350. Drop rings into batter to coat. Shake off excess and cook in hot oil til golden brown on both sides, about 4 minutes total. Turn only once. Drain on layers of paper towels and lightly salt.

You can make this batter several hours ahead and it will keep overnight if you want to do a re-run the next day since you already made your house "smell". That's what we do!

Spot gives this FLEEING PAWS because her number one fear in life is the sound of onions cooking. Forgetting Spot, these are delish!!

Yummy Chicken Tenders

Ingredients

Boneless skinless chicken tenders
Sea salt and ground pepper
Whisked egg
Italian bread crumbs

Instructions

Sprinkle small plate generously with salt and pepper, place egg in pie plate, bread crumbs in large zip-lock bag. Take each tender and coat with s & p, dredge in egg, shake and cover with crumbs. Press crumbs into tender. Return to s& p plate one more time. Place on a separate dinner plate and let sit at room temperature for 30 minutes. This is the key to the recipe.

In medium high skillet, fry each tender til golden on each side. This will take just a couple of minutes.

For fun, you could add flat leaf parsley or even Parmesan. We like to serve with spinach angel hair pasta nests. Except our teenage son eats the tenders as they come off the skillet so I make 10 tenders for just 3 of us.

Spot heard the sizzling and ran for the hills. Once all was quiet, she slithered back in and waited at our feet. That is about a 3-paw rating.