Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

     This week I took my first cooking class, Knife Skills 101.  I became a member of the Mary C. O'Keefe Cultural Center in Ocean Springs, MS, (http://www.themaryc.org/) and signed up for some cooking classes.  I figured I should take knife skills, both to learn the correct knives to use for specific things, and how to hold them so I don't cut myself, (I am a huge clutz), and how to do that super fast chop that you see on The Food Network.  I surprised myself at how well I did!  No band-aids, and I totally beat the other lady in boning my chicken... take that great grandma!  (she became a great grandma that day, actually)...
     While we were learning how to slice & dice, one of the cooks was preparing us a meal out of our practice food.  We ended up with a bacon-wrapped chicken breast stuffed with boursin cheese, in a roasted tomato & garlic sauce.  We had a side of parmesan fries from learning how to batonnet, and then a citrus vinaigrette salad made from sectioning an orange, and slicing up purple onion and fennel.  I scarfed mine down.  Everyone else kind of ate most of it... I wanted to steal from their plates, I was so hungry and it was so good!

     I decided to make it for dinner last night, but with a twist... I still have an inordinate amount of jalapenos in our fridge, so I decided to stuff the chicken with cream cheese & jalapenos instead of the boursin (also because our commissary didn't have boursin).  I also added portabello mushrooms to the sauce, and served it over homemade organic parmesan risotto, topped with roasted garlic parmesan asparagus.  I made a fresh spinach chiffonade to top it off, but forgot to add it in my hunger/excitement!