By J. M. HIRSCH

AP Food Editor

This is my weeknight-friendly take on fried chicken served on waffles, a total comfort food perfect for a cold winter night.

And two totally respectable convenience foods make it a snap to get on the table in almost no time--rotisserie chicken and frozen waffles. I'm a big believer that if you eat a lot of chicken and have a crazy busy schedule, a rotisserie chicken should be a staple of your weekly shopping list. Don't worry about what you'll do with it. Since the cooking is already done for you, sorting out how you'll eat it is the easy part.

I feel the same way about frozen whole-grain waffles. I try to always have a box in the freezer. It's not because my family eats all that many for breakfast. But frozen waffles are a versatile workhorse in the kitchen. I use them for sandwiches in my son's lunches--PB&J, ham and cheese, peanut butter and banana, etc.--all the time.

For this easy dinner, I used both of these go-to ingredients, and dressed them with a killer mushroom gravy. No frozen waffles handy? You can serve this chicken and gravy over toasted slabs of sourdough bread, too.