Mexican "Chicken Parmesan" and Mexican "Fried Rice" with Elote

Well tonight's dinner was all started because my Mom gave me a jar of salsa because she had too many at her house.  And we have not been eating much chicken lately so chicken sounded delicious.  Chicken parmesan sounded great but was too simple of an idea.  I wanted something creative tonight so I did a play on chicken parmesan and added a Mexican twist to it.  Plus we got a camera last night and I wanted to play with it.

For the chicken, I quickly seasoned it with some salt, pepper, spices and herbs and coated it with some bread crumbs.  Browned it on both sides and tossed in the salsa and just let it cook.

The Mexican fried rice came abouts for one...I have never had pasta in Mexican cuisine so rice sounded appropriate and two...I had some left over Jasmine rice in the fridge.  Fried rice is best made from day old rice.  I chopped up some onion, garlic, jalapeno and opened up a can of corn and sauteed it.  Set that aside and scrambled some eggs and then set that aside.  The rice, I fried real quick with some spices and herbs and tossed in some tomato powder.

The corn was just a craving since my Mom had given us some corn last night and my friend Mary Beth and I were talking about it last week.  Typically, elote is served with mayo, cojita cheese and chilli.  I did not have mayo at home so I took some plain yogurt and spiced it up.  I used parmesan cheese in place of cojita cheese.  In general, I find plain yogurt as a great substitute to mayo on many items.  I cheated a bit on preparing the corn though.  Since I do not have access to a grill quickly, I popped the corn in the husk in the microwave for a couple minutes...unhusked it...and then gave it a "sear" on the stop.

After battling three different pans at one time, the end result was well worth it.  As I was cooking, I had a vision of what the plate was going to look like.  I quickly assembled the plate and this is what I ended up with..