The middle of the month I made Kenny a nice dinner since I don't get to do that very often. I thought that I would try Chicken Cordon Bleu since I had never made it before. I found a recipe online that worked with what I had for ingredients. I made a pasta salad and a caesar salad to go with it and dinner was delicious! I recommend the Chicken Cordon Bleu:
SIMPLE CHICKEN CORDON BLEU
4 skinless, boneless chicken breast
4 slices Swiss or Provolone cheese
4 thin sliced smoked ham
¼ cup all-purpose flour
1 egg; beaten
1 cup Italian seasoned bread crumbs
4 tablespoons butter
½ cup chicken broth
1 cup whipping cream
Pound chicken breast to ¼-inch thickness. Sprinkle each piece on both sides with salt and pepper. Place 1 cheese slice and 1 ham slice on each breast. Roll up each breast using toothpicks to secure if necessary. Dredge each in flour, shake off excess, then in egg and finally in bread crumbs. Place seam side down in baking dish that has been sprayed with Pam. Place 1 tablespoon butter on each piece of chicken. Bake at 350° for 35 minutes until juices run clear. Meanwhile, in a saucepan, combine broth and whipping cream; season to taste (salt, pepper, garlic, oregano). Simmer on low stirring until thickened; Pour over chicken.
...And enjoy!
Now before you become impressed with the salads, I must say that the pasta it "Simply Salads" from a box, and the caesar salad was one of those kits you buy at the store. I figured I spent a lot of time making the chicken from scratch, I could go easy on the salads. :-)
This last weekend Kenny and I a our friend Cade went up to Gravel Creek (east of Soda Springs) so the boys could go bow hunting. There was a beautiful sunset on our way up there, so we had to take a picture of it, but our camera wasn't wanting to give us a good picture, but here are a couple:
Kenny came down from the mountain with a kill :-D ......
Too bad it was just a grouse and not an elk or a deer, but we'll take it either way--it tastes like chicken! The dogs were really interested in it too!
After a lunch of steak and a half baked potato (we tried wrapping them in tin foil and baking them in the fire, but they just burned on the outside and didn't quite get done on the inside), I tried my hand at shooting a bow at a target. It was really fun! I did as good as Kenny! He says I'm a natural, but he may have been going easy on me.
We didn't have a bull's eye target, so I drew my version of an elk and put a big heart on it to aim for. My arrow is the green-finned one and Kenny's is the orange-finned one. ;-)
I had to try it again, and again, and again...
And I finally got the heart, but as you can see, there are no other holes in the heart, meaning I'm the only one who got the heart! Yay for me! As for the rest of the trip, Cade nor Kenny got anything but grouse. On our way out, Kenny and I saw a big elk, however it was after dark, and the elk jumped a fence into a field (most likely private property), so we couldn't shoot it even if we wanted to. Sigh.
School is going okay. It keeps me really busy cause there is always reading to do, assignments due, quizzes online, exams online, and other things to constantly be researching and studying. But I enjoy my program and I've made lots of good friends. Kenny is still loving his program. He also works for his teacher helping other teachers in elementary, junior and high schools to apply for grants so they can do electronics activities in classes. This is to start getting kids interested in it at a young age. He has a lot of fun with it. Work is going okay for me. I'm not working too many hours, but that is good since my program makes me so busy!
