cordon bleu

Well, it's a fairly nice Saturday, and we decided to have some chicken cooked on the BBQ. We didn't really feel like wings, thighs or drummies. So we decided to go with Cordon Bleu. Here it is, hope you can tolerate the play-by-play. Started off by butterflying some chicken breasts. Then...

Chicken Cordon Bleu was mentioned a day or so ago in another post, and well it sounded really good. So since I hadn't had it a while - I thought why not. This is an abbreviated version of how I make mine. Some pictures are missing because I got tired of washing my hands. Sorry about that. First...

I bought a loin at Sam's a couple of days ago. Cut it into 4 pieces. Froze two of them. Put one in a curing brine for CB, and the last one I stuffed with ham, swiss & sliced fresh jalapenos. Here's the loin: Cut it up, and sliced up a ham that I just cold smoked for 4 hours. Next slice up...

I started out with a nice big roasting chicken. Once it was all rinsed off, I gave it a little chicken yoga to stretch all the tendons so it would be easier to debone. All nice & relaxed & ready to debone. Next you just take a sharp boning knife & slice down the backbone. Then you...