A little bit country....

Opportunities to cook weekday dinners don't come too often. It's not that I'm super busy, it's just that I haven't really gotten my act together to think ahead, shop in advance, meal plan. I'm a fraud. I'm not a foodie anymore. But on the rare occasion, I do come up with something... And sometimes, it's even fabulous.

My other admission is that I'm a complete hick. I like being a mall rat; I love eating in chain restaurants where the portion size is too big to be at all healthy, and where the drinks are refilled for free. I really like eating fancy food in fancy restaurants with fancy prices, but sometimes, just sometimes, I wish I could just sit in a restaurant booth, with a big pile of chicken fingers in front of me, with yummy mustard on the side for dipping.

So, because we really don't have money to go out all the time, I decided to recreate this somehow at home. I used a ready-made spicy mix to add to the chicken breast, because where would we be in the world without ready-made spice mixes!?? {I used the one on the left.}


So, then, because it was going to be spicy, I decided my dinner would then be a little bit country, so I wanted to make creamed corn. Knowing that creamed corn is about a million thousand calories, I searched the web for a healthy creamed corn recipe, and I found it!


The chicken breast was coated in the spice mix, then I dipped the pieces into egg, and then into plain breadcrumbs that had more spice mix added in. To stay on the healthy track, I baked the chicken with a only a few drizzles of olive oil on top.

The corn took mere minutes to make - and it is one of the most satisfying things I've made in a long time! It was really creamy, made by the lowfat milk and the cornstarch. Genius!

Dinner was delicious!! I keep saying to people that I'm not particularly sophisticated, and it is not anymore true than when it comes to food. So I'm a weekend foodie... So what's wrong with that? :)