What types of spices should try. I drizzle hot sauce over my chicken before eating but the crust/chicken always seems to bland. I have tried red pepper flakes in the breading and black pepper... What else should I try? Doesn't have to be hot just flavorful.

Have you tried marinating the chicken a bit longer?
Add a bit of mashed ginger,garlic,onions,black pepper when you marinate.

Actually I did not marinate the chicken at all.. I only marinate when I do not bread.
Maybe that is where I am going wrong. I usually put the spice in the breading. I am trying to find a good combo that will taste good with hot sauce. My daughter has me hooked on hot sauce and chicken.

I think you should marinate first before breading and add your spices to the breading as you do now.. that way the chicken will taste spicier.
You could add the garlic,ginger,onion and black pepper to the hot sauce and marinate the chicken in the sauce itself..
I am drooling already.. ;)

I remember tasting a wonderful chicken,with hot sauce at a restaurant, I have never found out their secret.:)

I already made chicken for lunch guess I will try it for lunch again tomorrow. Will marinate all night. The chicken is frozen so I will take it from the freezer and put it in the sauce/spices to marinate and see how it goes. I will try the garlic, b.pepper and the onion with a little hot sauce.

I only use ginger if I am going to eat it with rice, pineapples, soy... Ginger and hot sauce mmm not so sure about.

Yummmy :)

I was thinking if you are not into ginger with hot sauce you can do without the ginger.

I just like the hint of ginger flavour but don't like it when I have bits of ginger in my food.

Do let us know how it goes tomorrow!

OK will have to leave the hot sauce off this one,

Roll them in sugar frosted flakes before you cook it.

Fr. I will give that one a try... I bet their nice and crunchy.

Sage and or rosemary is good combo with chicken. Garlic too if you like it.

fr. I will give that one a try...I bet their nice and crunchy.

Yes I did that one by mistake some years ago, was suppose to be "corn flakes" and well it was a flake.

I also simmer the chicken in boiled sweatened apples. ** can we see a sweat theme here

Have sage but never used rosemary. May have to try some.

Fr,
You sound like you got a sweet tooth!:)

I like my spicy food hot and/or spicy plus tangy and less sweet.;)

I'd like chicken and apples. I also like pineapples and chicken or pork and apple or pineapples.
There is a company that makes apple and chicken sausages that my kids love, kind of pricey though but very good.

Well tonight it will be thin sliced steak, rolled and wraped in bacon.
Got a mixed salad, potato salad ( bought that one) and I got some home made bread baking in the bread maker as we type.

And well the cake is for NOW, and desert also

Wow, I loved homemade bread. It's been a while since lunch. I'm hungry and my cake did not turn out well.

Cake soup, cake bricks, enough icing and it is all good.

Not this cake I bet it weighs 5 pounds. My son has some kids over playing basketball.. lol I'm going to see if they want it they usually raid my kitchen.

Lemon pepper

Thanks star my kids use it with butter for their chicken, they love it, I detest it.
For tonight I have it marinating in hot sauce, black pepper and onion.

Just finished eating lunch. I will say that my chicken was sooooo good. Light crispy & crunchy... beautiful rich color from the hot sauce. Plated it and put ranch dressing in a circle and surrounded the ranch with a circle of hot sauce. Oh how good. Thank you firmy for the idea of marinating it.

Note my cocoa cake was eaten by a group of hungry backyard basketbal players... so guess it was OK.

*edit* I did not use egg to dip it in the hot sauce helped the flour and pankeo crumbs to stick.

Garlic Salt and Lemon Pepper is quick and Tasty.

I like curry powder in the flour.

When I start making my breading, I use either seasoned bread crumbs or just about any cereal (crushed). Then I just start adding things... sage, poultry seasoning, paprika, oregano, thyme, blk pepper, onion powder, bit of garlic powder, Lawrey's seasoned salt (this is good on deep fried wings - sprinkle on just after take them out oil to drain),. just whatever seems interesting. It's also my home made 'shake n bake'... The one recipe my mom really gave me was 'be creative and try it.' <G>

My quick and easy is cajun salt, garlic salt and a little pepper and parsley.

My quick and easy is cajun salt, garlic salt and a little pepper and parsley.
Wow that sounds good

wildandblue - that's what made Mom's meals so interesting. We could easily recognize what the dish was, but it never quite tasted the same so we never got tired of it. ;)

Believe me, when I cook, no one knows what the dish is. "Oh, is it pineapple upside down cake? Tastes just like chicken!" I leave that to my wife. But I do like trying to recreate dishes I remember from childhood, or things we have eaten in restaurants that we liked