Each year on April 4th, National Chicken Cordon Bleu Day celebrates a blue ribbon dish that combines chicken, ham, and cheese.
The French term Cordon Bleu translates to “Blue Ribbon.” This dish is a take on the popular Veal Cordon Bleu. It is a flattened chicken breast which is wrapped around ham (or sometimes prosciutto or Canadian bacon) and cheese such as Swiss or Gruyere. Toothpicks hold the chicken together before being dipped in an egg wash and breaded.
The earliest recipe we were able to find was in a March 1964 printing of the Cincinnati Enquirer by the Cincinnati Gourmet Stanley Demos. Despite some misconceptions, it is an American dish. Demos mentions in his column that he got the idea to try chicken instead of veal “to be different.” It has been a popular dish since.
Try making Chicken Cordon Bleu or a variation on the theme. Several recipes offer lighter varieties, too. Share your favorite recipe for this creative chicken dish. We also found a couple for you to try in your home kitchen.
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Each year on April 3rd, National Find A Rainbow Day challenges us to look to the sky and find a colorful ray of hope cast across it.
There are people that see rainbows as an artistic masterpiece in the sky, to others it is a sign of hope and to many a sign of promise.
It can be all three; beauty, hope and promise.
Jill Magnus
A spectrum of light in the form of a multicolored arc, appearing in the sky, is caused by both reflection and refraction of light in water droplets in the Earth’s atmosphere. These rainbows always appear directly opposite of the sun. The light is refracted (bent) when it enters a droplet of water, then is reflected inside on the back of the droplet and refracted again when leaving it.
Red is the color that is visible on the outer part of a rainbow and violet on the inside of a primary rainbow. Children learn in science class the mnemonic ROYGBIV to help them to remember the sequence of colors in a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Many forms of airborne water can cause rainbows including, rain, mist, spray, and dew.
Find yourself a rainbow or use the garden hose or a prism to make one yourself. Families, students, and classrooms, create a rainbow from the colorful hearts on this printable. There’s at least one for every color in the rainbow. Take out your color crayons and finish what we’ve started. Then cut them out and put them in a cheerful, sunny window to brighten the day of someone passing by.
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National Color Day focuses on the impact color has on each of us. The observance takes place each year on October 22nd. Color is powerful. It can affect a mood, draw attention, even cause alarm.
It is hard to imagine a world without color. Without color, we would nearly be blind. Doctors check for health through the color of a patient’s skin. On a late, crisp autumn morning, sparkling frost and leaves changing from green to vermillion signal a change of seasons. A flush of color in the cheeks of a friend sends a cue of her embarrassment. The street light turns from green to yellow to red. In the Grand Canyon, layers of sediment range in color from black to pale ash. All these signs alert us to change through color.
Imagine a world without chrysocolla. This mineral formed from hydrated copper phyllosilicate develops colors from a brilliant cyan to jade green. From darkening skies before a storm to the undulating fragile glow of the aurora borealis, color in nature moves us to pause and enjoy or to warn us of impending danger. Long before colors had names, they served a purpose.
Colors accent our homes and feed our creativity, allowing us to express ourselves. Open a box of crayons or watercolors, and artists of any age lose themselves in a world of their own creation for hours.
Different colors are perceived to mean different things. The following is one rendition of the perceived meaning of the various colors in the United States.
Explore the use of color in your life. Take in the vast and ever-changing array of shades available to you. What’s your favorite color? Express yourself through color and use #NationalColorDay to post on social media.
This is a family favorite. The crispy topping also works for breading chicken tenderloins. Keto friendly and low carb, you won’t even notice the missing bread crumbs or flour. This cheese chicken dish will quickly make the top of your list for easy weeknight dinner.
Ingredients
3 to 5 chicken breasts
1 8oz cream cheese
16 oz chopped ham
8 oz Swiss cheese
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
8 oz sliced white mushrooms
1/2 cup ground pork rinds
1/3 cup Sunflower seeds
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp onion powder
2 Tbsp Italian Seasoning
2 Tbsp Everything Bagel Seasoning
1/4 cup grayed Parmesan cheese
1 tsp lemon juice
2 Tbsp olive oil
1/4 tsp black pepper
5 slices cooked bacon crumbed
Directions
13 x 9 Pyrex baking dish
Cut chicken into 1 inch pieces
Add chopped ham and mushrooms to chicken
Mix olive oil, lemon juice, Softened cream cheese
Pour over and mix with chicken. I do it in baking dish
Cover with sliced Swiss cheese
In a bowl mix pork rinds, Sunflower seeds, Italian seasoning, Everythin bagel seasoning, Parmesan cheese, black pepper, and shredded Cheddar cheese,
Sprinkle over top of casserole
Cover with aluminum foil and bake at 350°for 1 hour.
Add crushed bacon sprinkled over top and (optional) green onions if desired return to oven uncovered for 15 minutes.
Serve warm. We like it with a green salad. This keto, low carb meal rarely has leftovers.
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