Thanksgiving Recipe Elvis Presley Thanksgiving Southern Fried Chicken Recipe. Thanksgiving with Elvis Thanksgiving Day Elvis celebrated Thanksgiving Day on a regular basis While Elvis always spent Christmas Day at home in Memphis, Elvis often spent Thanksgiving Day working away from Graceland
In 1957 Elvis spent Thanksgiving watching Pat Boones new movie, April Love, at Loews Palace in Memphis. The following year Elvis was in Germany. The army promoted him to private first class that day and Elvis had Thanksgiving dinner with the family of girlfriend Elisabeth Stefaniak.
Elvis Thanksgiving Fried Chicken Recipe
Ingredients:
1/2 teaspoon thyme
1/4 teaspoon oregano
1/4 teaspoon basil
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 teaspoon paprika
1/4 teaspoon chilli powder
1/2 teaspoon celery seed
1/2 teaspoon coriander
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/3 teaspoon kosher salt
1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 teaspoon ground white pepper
3 cups buttermilk
Mix the dry ingredients together in a large bowl, then whisk in the buttermilk until it’s thoroughly mixed. Pour the batter over the chicken and marinate for up to five days in the refrigerator
Frying Mix: Cornstarch, whole wheat flour & Salt
Dredge the marinated chicken pieces in the dry Cornstarch/Flour/Salt mixture
Frying: Drop chicken in a large skillet with hot peanut oil at 375 degrees. Once chicken is a golden brown finish cooking in a 180 degree oven for 10 minutes
Elvis and The Colonel enjoying Thanksgiving on the set of
Loving You 1958
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 Elvis sharing Thanksgiving Chicken with Hope Lange on the set of Wild in the Country 1960 |
 1961 Elvis Spent Thanksgiving filming Kid Galahad |
During the 1960s Elvis was working in Hollywood on Thanksgiving Day. November 24, 1960, he was filming Wild in the Country The next year he was working on Kid Galahad in November. He spent the holiday driving back to Memphis in 1964, having just finished work on Tickle Me. 1967 Elvis was filming Stay Away, Joe ended the day before Thanksgiving 1968 Elvis he was in the middle of filming Little a Little, Love a Little during Thanksgiving the November holiday
Thanksgiving was an important day for the Elvis movies. Six of his movies were released nationwide the day before Thanksgiving to take advantage of the four-day high school break. Love Me Tender (1956) GI Blues (1960) Blue Hawaii (1961) Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) Fun in Acapulco (1963) and Harum Scarum (1965)
Elvis worked the final two Thanksgiving Days of his life: November 27, 1975, he flew to Las Vegas on the Lisa Marie to start a new engagement there, and November 25, 1976, he performed on stage at the University of Oregon in Eugene