Front Range Fork And Cork: Ranch Chicken and Cornbread Waffles

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Ranch Chicken and Cornbread Waffles

Growing up in Pasadena, The Rose Parade was a time honored tradition every year for my husband and his family. They would sell parking spots in their front yard to parade goers and offer their home to strangers to spend the night with a sleeping bag on their floor for $5, way before Airbnb was ever a thing.

This year a little different. No parade. No magic. No high school bands who auditioned from all over the country to have their 15 minutes of fame. No beautiful horses doing their special routines. Very sad.

Our New Years Day without a doubt was definitely interesting, to say the least.

We are still in full construction mode, praying for a light at the end (which isn't a train). Today was insulation day. I stepped up in my full "Inside Man" movie costume and got to work.

Steve, Stevie, or Steve-O...watch the movie and you'll understand. It's "Baby A's" top 10 favorite film.

So there I was with 120 batts of insulation that needed to be trimmed to fit into the ceiling framing. I measured and cut and my "contractor" was up and down the ladder tucking it all in.

By the end of the day I thought I was going to die. Every inch of my body ached from using tendons and muscles that I didn't know existed at all.

We did it though and very successfully...at least it took our minds off of the no parade day!

My husband picked up this drywall lift on Craigslist. What a miracle! I could kiss whoever invented this beauty!!! It saved my husband so much time, potential injuries, and "discussions" (we'll just leave it at that).

Another historical part of Pasadena is Roscoe's House of Chicken n Waffles. Roscoe's made Chicken n Waffles famous many, many, many years ago.

I thought it would be fun to make a play on their famous dish. I made BBQ Ranch Grilled Chicken with a Caesar salad and then...wait for it....my Suzie's Cornbread mixture in the waffle iron!

Such a fun spin on cornbread! Enjoy!!