Because of this...
I needed to cook a REALLY easy meal tonight.
But I didn't want it to be boring.
This is what I came up with:
BBQ Chicken Sandwiches on Jalapeno Corn Cakes
Here's my inspiration:
A few weekends ago, Evan and I went to Nashville, TN for a Family Life Marriage Conference. It was a really fun weekend! Since we are food lovers, we spent a lot of our free time looking for great restaurants! In our search, we found a book called, "Where The Locals Eat: Nashville." It was a FABULOUS find!! It gave us several great recommendations. One of those was a restaurant called Puckett's Grocery and Restaurant. They have excellent BBQ and they give you the option of having your sandwich on Cajun corn cakes instead of regular bread! Such a cool concept! So I decided to give it a shot at home. Here's a pic of the restaurant... you should try it if you're ever in Historic Downtown Franklin, TN.
For the BBQ Chicken, all I did was throw a pound of raw boneless skinless chicken breasts into my slow cooker with an entire bottle of BBQ sauce this morning when I woke up. I put it on the lowest setting and when I came home from work, dinner was basically ready!
For the coleslaw, I stopped by my favorite BBQ restaurant in town and bought a quart of it (I told you I was going simple tonight).
Now for the Jalapeno Corn Cakes... all I did was take my favorite cornbread recipe, mix all the ingredients together and fry little cakes up in the skillet (the exact same way that you would make pancakes). Word of advice: This was an experimental idea so I had to try a few times before I got a cake that I liked. In the process, I learned that there is plenty of batter to make a few mistakes and that the smaller you make the cakes, the more likely they are to be pretty.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups of yellow cornmeal
1 cup sour cream
1 can creamed corn
3 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
2 eggs
2/3 cup vegetable oil
2 or more chopped, seeded jalapenos
1 cup grated, mild cheddar cheese
*****
I served these with fruit and the restaurant served them with sweet potato fries but the sandwich is so filling that you don't really even need a side item!
Here's the finished product...
Now on to tackle the monster in my laundry room :)
