Day: July 8, 2023

Breaded Chicken Rolls

writ­ten 07/08/2023, updat­ed 07/08/2023

Vari­a­tion with­out excess sauce or cheese

What

Chick­en breast rolls stuffed with sauce, bacon, and spinach, bread­ed with Kel­log­g’s Corn Flakes Crumbs. Can eas­i­ly be dairy-free with­out addi­tion of cheese. No eggs. No soy. Unless in sauce.

Fun for a fam­i­ly because each roll can be cus­tomized for each per­son in terms of sauce, sea­son­ings, and fill­ing

Ingredients

Main: Chick­en breasts (whole or sliced), Kel­logs’s Corn Flakes Crumbs (or what­ev­er bread­ing, like panko), fill­ing, sea­son­ing, sauce, phys­i­cal fas­ten­er

Your choic­es of what­ev­er you like:

Fill­ing: spinach, cheese slices, bacon, dried cran­ber­ries, onions, etc

Sea­son­ings: soy sauce, salt, pep­per, sug­ar, lemon juice, gar­lic pow­der, onion pow­der, etc

Sauce: A‑1, mus­tard, hot sauce, man­go, toma­to, etc

Fas­ten­ers: tooth­picks, cook­ing twine, etc

Time

45 min­utes prep + 30–45 min­utes bake = 1.5 hours total

Steps

I used 4 whole breasts, pic­tures below

  • Cook bacon
  • Sauté spinach and fla­vor light­ly with lemon, gar­lic, soy sauce, pep­per, and crum­bled bacon, if desired
  • Pre­pare and set out any sea­son­ings or sauces (your hands will be dirty)
  • Pre­pare bread­ing in dish and set aside
  • Line a bak­ing pan with bak­ing rack (you want air­flow under the chick­en)
  • Pre­pare a sheet of plas­tic wrap and set near­by
  • But­ter­fly the whole breasts (if using pre-cut breasts, skip ahead)
  • Lay plas­tic wrap on top of but­ter­flied chick­en
  • Using a meat ten­der­iz­er mal­let, pound until flat
    • Repeat for all chick­en
    • One by one, sea­son the chick­en on both sides
    • Pour sauce and rub it in
    • Lay­er cheese, bacon, and spinach
    • Top with more sauce, bacon, and cheese
    • Care­ful­ly fold in the sides, and then roll (Sauce and cheese will escape any holes or seams!)
    • Bind with phys­i­cal fas­ten­ers (I use tooth­picks)
    • Driz­zle oil (option­al)
    • Cov­er in Kel­log­g’s Crumbs/breading
    • Bake in oven between 350–400 degrees F for about 30–40 min­utes (depends on how much chick­en)
    • Remove fas­ten­ers
    • Slice, enjoy

Pictures

Saute spinach
Care­ful, don’t make it too salty
Bread­ing
Used pre-cooked bacon this time. Meh.
Bak­ing rack on lined pan
Meat ten­der­iz­er
4 whole breasts
Flat­ten­ing
Flat­tened
Soy sauce
Spices
Sauce, bacon, spinach
Wrapped, about to bread
Bak­ing

Notes

  • Sauce is imper­a­tive if you don’t want it to turn out dry
  • Fun to make for the fam­i­ly because every­one gets to choose their own sauce/flavor
  • Pre-cooked bacon is easy, but imparts lit­tle fla­vor
  • Bakes quick­ly since chick­en is thin and fill­ing is pre-cooked
  • Ther­mome­ters are not rec­om­mend­ed giv­en how thin the meat is, can be used as a gauge
  • Cut­ting open a test piece is the best option to test for done­ness
  • Cheese is not nec­es­sary, but makes it oh so good
  • Col­ored tooth­picks not rec­om­mend­ed, lol. Col­or comes off in chick­en.
  • Bite sized is fun to eat, but annoy­ing to pre­pare
  • Try not to cre­ate holes when but­ter­fly­ing
  • Try not to lose any sauce or cheese to holes dur­ing bak­ing. Makes it very dry

Dr. B Dental Solutions Ultrasonic Cleaner

writ­ten 07/08/2023, updat­ed 07/08/2023

What

A per­son­al ultra­son­ic den­tal appli­ance clean­er for night­guards, den­tures, align­ers, retain­ers, and sleep apnea appli­ances. High fre­quen­cy vibra­tion (108Z??? “Z” is not a real fre­quen­cy unit of mea­sure) with auto-shut­off fea­ture, 3 timer set­tings (5, 10, 15 min­utes), and 2 pow­er options (includ­ed 3 AAA or USB A with no charg­ing block).

Dr. B (Lorin Berland, DDS) has pur­port­ed­ly authored over 100 book, arti­cles, and videos on clin­i­cal den­tistry and edu­a­tion.

Cost

$29.95 + tax on Ama­zon

Test

Product

Half-screw lid
Must sup­ply own pow­er sup­ply
3 AAA bat­ter­ies after unscrew­ing it
Com­par­a­tive size with night­guard

Use

I used Poli­den­t’s tablets
Poli­den­t’s fizz
5 min­utes have passed
How it looks when it’s work­ing
Tak­ing it out
Most of the dots are Poli­dent, but you can see some debris from the NG

Before and After

BEFORE
AFTER
BEFORE
AFTER

Verdict

Rec­om­mend­ed: Yes, with reser­va­tions

Pros: Com­pact, well-made, nice half-screw cap, sim­ple

Cons: Zero tech­ni­cal infor­ma­tion, made-up fre­quen­cy num­bers in Ama­zon descrip­tion and absent on offi­cial web­site,

You be the judge in the pic­tures. The “after” pho­tos are notice­ably whiter and show less tar­tar. How­ev­er, it’s not 100% clean. While the clean­er was work­ing, I felt as if it was­n’t as strong as I’d like it to be. The ones in my office sound and look strong when in use. It clear­ly works and pos­si­bly with repeat­ed use it would fur­ther clean my night­guard, but how much of that is just the tablet and how much is the ultra­son­ic prod­uct, itself? I have not done a test for just those Poli­dent retain­er tablets. My biggest prob­lem with the device is the over­all lack of infor­ma­tion. You can look up 108Z if you want on the inter­net, but noth­ing in the fre­quen­cy world has that unit of mea­sure. Is it made up? It’s Hz. Fre­quen­cy is mea­sured in Hz. The prod­uct also did not come with book­let, nor does it offer one any­where in the Ama­zon list­ing, on the offi­cial web­site nor on a den­tal prod­uct dis­trib­u­tor site. That’s a lit­tle shady, in my opin­ion. Then again, it’s also only $30 where­as a com­pa­ra­ble by iSon­ic runs $50, and it clear­ly does work.

Dis­claimer: I am a Den­tal Hygien­ist by trade and am test­ing these on my own with NO com­pen­sa­tion from any­one