Elise’s Chicken and Molly’s Corn

If you haven’t been here for a while, let me fill you in: My Sweet Lady Wife and I are ‘between houses’. The old house has been sold. We close on the new house December 5 (16 and a wake up). Meanwhle, we are living in this little two bedrom apartment. The aparment is nice, as apartments go – it is clean, quiet, and safe. For a Foodie, however, the kitchen leaves a lot to be desired: there is about two square feet of counter space. Two of the stove’s four burners actually work well enough to almost boil water.

As a result, dinners must be simple. (And add to this the fact that I have a cold this week). A couple of weeks ago, Elise posted a scrumptious chicken recipe and Molly wrote about her Brown Buttered Corn. I had a menu.

I don’t believe I have ever had a simple corn dish that tasted as good as Molly’s Brown Buttered Corn. The thyme really gave the butter some flaver and it transfers to the corn wonderfully. My Sweet Lady Wife – who is a Wisconsin farm girl and a corn connoisseur – loved it. Definitely a keeper.

I modified Elise’s chicken recipe to be more ‘saucy’ (A little more vermouth and cream in the pan sauce). I also used applewood-smoked bacon instead of the pancetta. It was excellent. I think it’s really difficult to turn a naked chicken breast into something really tasty but this certainly was.