Darice de Cuba

This is a recipe I came up with while in the hospital. I only had a few channels on TV so I spend hours watching those home shopping program selling kitchen appliances(over and over again same product everyday) and watching cook shows. By no means an original recipes but I went with ingredients I like.

Risotto with stuffed chicken

First make a tapenade/pesto you like, I made one of sun dried tomato, fresh basil, garlic and parmesan cheese with extra virgin oil for some moist. Mix all in a food mixer set aside.

Butterfly the chicken breast, cover with plastic wrap and pound the chicken until it’s thin. Spread the tapenade over the chicken, put mozzarella cheese on top and fold the chicken back, hold together with toothpicks. I also wrapped the chicken in Serrano ham but it didn’t add anything to the taste, next time I will use bacon or prosciutto.

Put some olive oil on the chicken and grill it on the grill pan. Due that the chicken is folded it won’t cook completely on the grill pan so I finished in the oven on 200 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes. The mozzarella melts better in the oven also.

Make risotto with peas, I didn’t had peas so I used chopped sun dried tomatoes. It made the risotto a bit too salty, so this was a one time only. Next time I’ll do my best to get some peas.

This was a quite tasty meal I must say. I enjoyed it till the last bite. I only wish I had a macro lens for my Nikon D70 so I can take more detailed food photos. Most food photo I take with the Ricoh GR, but I prefer dSLR quality for detailed photos.

Since I’m back home from the hospital and currently not working while recovering I have spend a lot of hours redesigning and rethinking my weblog. I want to write more, add more content and just invest more in it. Mainly because it’s a good outlet for me and it pushes me to keep active on the web -design, -development area. And to keep improving my writing.

Due to switching of CMS more then once in short period the feed redirecting became completely messed up, I went from about 100 subscription to around 30. So one of the goals is too reach 100 again.

Design wise I have had a few complains about the white text being unreadable. So I added a high contrast theme, you can find it the right sidebar under CSS selector. Although I’m pretty sure if you have trouble reading this site your screen brightness is too bright. I have a glossy screen and when I just bought it I had trouble reading lots of websites, when I dimmed the brightness that problem went away. Considering that the brightness is not good for your eyes on the long term I suggest you to try a less bright settings see how that is. But otherwise you can still use the high contrast theme.

Further more I would like to know who visits my weblog. This is so I can have an idea what topics you like reading about here, or what you would like to read about. To figure that out I made a feedback form, I would appreciate it if you would fill it, takes about 2 minutes of your time, and you get a gift if you choose to.

Hopefully this will help my creative juices flowing so I can write at least 2 to 3 entries a week. I have seen many weblogs come and go or just sit there without updates and I don’t want my weblog to end up like that.