Easy Chicken Club Sandwiches

Busy peeps- take note!  I so know the feeling of just being plain worn out on weeknights.  It is amazing how quickly the time flies by.  Most nights I feel like by the time I make dinner and clean up, it is time for bed!  So, I have brought in the real cook of our home and I have his permission to share his easy chicken sandwich recipe.  Whenever Jacob has a night off, I beg him to cook dinner for a few reasons:
1. So I don't have to.
2. He is an amazing cook.
3. So I don't have to.

Seriously though, Jacob is an expert in the kitchen, especially when it comes to seasoning and meats.  So I bowed to his expertise this week, gladly relinquished the stove, and contented myself with taking pictures of my handsome man's cooking.  It's a rough life.

Note: Jacob hates hates hates getting his pictures taken.  So for the sake of marital harmony, there are no pics of my husband cooking.... for now.  He he he.

Start these sandwiches off by frying a half a pack or so of bacon on medium heat.  Yum-O!  Maybe we can just have bacon for dinner.  No?  Okay...  

Don't let the bacon get crispy in the pan because you will cook it a little more later.

Add a little butter to the bacon grease in the pan and increase the heat to medium-high.  This recipe requires quite a bit of butter.  We eat healthy around here every once in a while- I promise!

While the butter is melting, pound your chicken breasts pretty thinly.  We used three chicken breasts to make four sandwiches.  This was enough for dinner plus lunch the next day- we didn't eat two sandwiches each for dinner (even though I wanted to).

Season the chicken liberally with salt and pepper on both sides.

Throw them in the frying pan!  We can only fry two at a time because of the size of our pan.  Once one side is nice and brown, flip it to cook the other side.  Add more butter if you need to.  These babies cook pretty quickly.

Look who decided to show up!  He was laying on the couch watching the Opening Day Reds game with TLO.  It's starting to smell pretty good.  

Meanwhile, set the oven to broil and compile the rest of your ingredients.  It's pretty simple: provolone cheese and some sub buns.  Hamburger buns work just fine, too.

Lay out the sub buns on a baking sheet or stone.  Spread butter across the subs, and then layer on your chicken.  Please try to ignore how well-loved my baking stone is.

Lay slices of provolone cheese over the chicken and sprinkle again with salt and pepper.  You really want to make sure you season these well.

Finally, pile on the bacon.  Pop these in the oven for a couple of minutes, or until the cheese is melted.

Now I know I should've stopped here and added some healthy things to my sandwich like lettuce, tomato, onion, and avocado.  But I didn't.  Maybe next time.  These are just so yummy on their own!

Serve 'em up!  We like to eat ours with some fruit, or I sometimes eat them with a salad.  Sweet potato fries are pretty good with them as well- I'll post that recipe next week.  More weeknight dinners to come, too- and I'll try to make them a little more healthy.  Probably.  Maybe.  

Thanks for stopping by!  Recipe below....

Easy Chicken Club Sandwiches
Makes 4 sandwiches

- 3 large chicken breasts
- 6 slices of bacon
- 1/2 stick butter
- 4 sub/hoagie buns or hamburger buns
- 8 slices provolone cheese
- salt to taste
- pepper to taste

Fry bacon over medium heat in skillet.  Set aside and raise heat to medium-high.  Add 1 T of butter to bacon grease.  Pound chicken breasts to about 1/2 inch thickness.  Salt and pepper both sides of chicken and fry for a couple of minutes on each side, until golden brown, adding butter as needed.
Set oven to broil.  Butter inside of sub/hoagie buns generously.  Layer chicken, provolone, salt, pepper, and bacon.  Broil until cheese is melted.  Enjoy!