corn fritters Archives | Heavenly Homemakers

I hope what you’ve learned by having a sneak peek at all of our food this week is that I really try to keep our meals simple. I don’t have time for fancy meals – but I do love to take time to make our food healthy, well balanced, yummy, and fun!

Today’s menu was:

Friday, February 1
Giant breakfast cookies, apples
Taco corn fritters, fruit smoothies
Homemade pizza, fruit

This morning, I cheated and spread the Breakfast Cookies batter into a 9×13 pan to bake. The entire pan was empty when we finished breakfast, plus we had big glasses of milk and clementines.

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Our Taco corn fritters at lunch were a huge hit. Everytime Matt or one of the boys came into the kitchen to see what I was making, they each said, “Corn fritters?! We haven’t had those for a while.” As in – every single one of them said this to me at a different time as they came into the kitchen. It totally cracked me up. And I guess I learned that I need to make these more often. There were only two left on the platter when we were done. Instead of making fruit smoothies, I simply got out a bowl of baby carrots and some pineapple and called it good.

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Between meals, we spent the day wrapping up our school work lists for the week, putting final touches on research papers, and preparing our house for guests. This weekend, our church is hosting a youth rally for middle and high school kids. Youth groups came from all over Nebraska (and beyond) for the event. We’ll be housing 6-8 middle school boys tonight and tomorrow night. Soooo, while I didn’t feel that we necessarily needed to have our house spotless for a bunch of middle school boys who would likely not care if I had a little dust or dirt in the corners of a room, we did need to clean up a little bit and get beds and mattresses ready. :) Our boys were a huge help. Love them.

Before taking Asa and Justus to the rally tonight, I made Homemade Pizzas. I love that we still have some peppers in our freezer from the garden.

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And now I will think about snacks for all those boys when they get here tonight. I wonder how long it will be before they find the ping-pong table. My guess is that it will get quite a work-out this weekend. :)

Hope your weekend is off to a good start!

P.S. I don’t think I’ll plan to share our Saturday food with you. Why? Because it will be very, very boring. We have quite a few leftovers, so just picture us eating everything else you’ve seen pictured this week – just warmed up a second time. :)

When Matt and I were at Whole Foods recently, we saw that they had some sort of Jalapeno-Corn fritter for sale on their hot bar. They looked SO GOOD, and while I didn’t figure our kids would appreciate the jalapenos, immediately my brain started thinking through how I could create something like this for a quick lunch that would be a little more kid-friendly. Feel free to add jalapenos to this recipe if you want. Just don’t touch your eye after messing with jalapenos. Or at least have milk handy if you do. But really…just don’t touch your eye.

Taco Corn Fritters

I kind of wanted an “all in one” meal, which is why I put taco meat in our fritters. Then, since it had taco meat, I figured it needed cheese. Those items are optional…but wow are they good! Of course though, I’m the girl who needs her beef. ;)

Taco Corn FrittersYum

1/2 pound cooked hamburger meat seasoned with taco seasoning mix (Many commercial taco seasonings contain gluten! I highly recommend making and using this wonderful homemade recipe!)
2 cups cornmeal
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
1/4 cup honey
1/4 cup melted butter or coconut oil
3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
2 cups frozen or canned corn
oil for frying (I used palm shortening)

Brown hamburger meat and add taco seasoning mix to taste. Mix together remaining ingredients, stirring in the seasoned meat. Melt palm shortening in a skillet. Scoop 1-2 Tablespoons of corn mixure into the hot oil and press down to form a “pattie”. Fry for 5-7 minutes on each side until cooked through. (I had my electric skillet set to 350°.)

The great thing about these Taco Corn Fritters is that they even taste good cold, which means they would make a great grab and go lunch or snack!!! I haven’t tried freezing these (because we eat them too quickly!), but I’m pretty sure you could make up a big batch and freeze them for “fast food”.

So would you put jalapenos in these, or not? How would your family like them best?!