Chicken Cordon Bleu

Ingredients:
2 whole chicken breast marinated in calamansi and salt
2 thin slices ham, halved lenghtwise
4 slices cheese
1/4 cup fine corn flakes
1/2 tsp. salt
1/8 tsp. paprika

Directions:
1. Halve chicken breasts then cut meat in one piece from bones.
2. Pull each half breast open in the middle to make a deep pocket.
3. Tuck a slice of ham and cheese into each pocket.
4. Melt butter or margarine in pie plate.
5. Mix corn flakes, salt and paprika in another plate.
6. Roll stuffed chicken fist in buteer then in crumb mixture to coat well.
7. Place in a single layer in buttered baking dish.
8. Bake in hot oven 400 degrees F. until chicken is golden brown.

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California Maki

Ingredients:
3 half-sized seaweed sheets
1 portion Sushi rice
1 cucumber
1 avocado
150 g crab meat
(or Surimi)
Wasabi
sesame, fish roe
possibly mayonnaise
(or crème fraîche)
salt

Directions:
1. Roast the seaweed sheets briefly on one side.
2. Peel and core the cucumber, cut it in strips. Cover it with salt and leave alone some minutes. Then rinse off to get rid of the surplus liquidity.
3. Cut the avocado in half, loosen the fruit flesh around the stone and then remove the stone. Scoop out the flesh as completely as possible from the halves with a spoon. Cut it into strips.
4. Mix the crab meat possibly with some mayonnaise to thicken it.
5. Now make an Inside-Out-roll with the cucumber strips, avocado strips and crab meat.
6. Roast the sesame briefly in a dry pan and garnish the finished roll with it and the fish roe.

Lasagna

Ingredients

Meat Filling:
1/2 kg ground beef
1 small can tomato sauce
2 tbsp oregano
2 cubes chicken bouillon cubes
2 cups onions
1 tbsp flour diluted in 1/4 cup water
1 cup olive oil
2 tbsp butter
salt & pepper

White Sauce:
2 tbsp butter/margarine
2 tbsp all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp fine salt
2 cups evaporated milk

Other ingredients:
Lasagna noodles (12 to 15 strips)

Procedure

Meat Filling:
1. Heat olive oil. Add ground beef until well cooked.
2. On a separate skillet, saute onions on butter.
3. Add flour diluted in 1/4 cup water.
4. Add tomato sauce, oregano, bouillon cubes.
5. Add beef (braised in olive oil).
6. Simmer for 5 minutes and let cool.

White Sauce:
1. Melt butter over low heat.
2. Add flour & salt and mix until well-blended.
3. Add milk and water mixture and cook over low heat until desired thickness.

Other Directions:
1. Boil noodles and let cool.
2. Line noodles on pan.
3. Spread meat filling.
4. Top with white sauce.
5. Repeat.. ending with white sauce.
6. Bake in 250 degrees Celcius until mixture simmers.