Chicken mole and more!

Tonight for dinner I still had some chicken around the house and I decided I wanted to make chicken mole. I've never made that before, but I had some mole sauce in a jar just sitting around, and I decided it would be a good time to try it. I just sauteed a chicken breast and made the sauce in another pot in the meantime. It was really easy, you just take a portion of the sauce from the jar, mix in an equal portion of chicken broth, add salt and sugar to taste and heat it up until it combines and is warm. I liked the way it tasted, but it was spicier that I was expecting, so I added a little honey instead of sugar, and I really liked the way that worked with it. I served the mole on the side because I liked cutting up my chicken and dipping it in lots of sauce for good coverage - that seemed like a good way to do it, but you could also put it on top I guess.

As you can see from the picture there was more to my dinner than just chicken and mole sauce. There was also cornbread and creamed corn! The cornbread was actually creamed corn cornbread, so the corn on the plate was really just the leftover, but that's OK. I can't say that this was my favorite cornbread recipe, but I wanted one with actual pieces of corn in it, so this is what I found. It definitely wasn't bad, the recipe can be found here. And this is what it looked like when it came out of the oven - yum!

Now, there was one more element to my meal as the first picture of the entry suggests. That element was a delicious lemon cake with lemon cream cheese frosting that I made yesterday and let set up overnight in the fridge to let the flavors mature. I used this recipe as my starting point, but I strayed wildly from it. I did follow the directions for the icing though. My cake is simpler though with the two layer, lemon curd in the middle, and the frosting on top and on the sides. Dad and I both really liked it, it's not too tart or too sweet, but it had a nice lemon flavor throughout. I especially like the lemon curd in the middle.