Bacon Wrapped Chicken Breast

This is an incredibly easy, but elegant and impressive chicken dish that will make you drool. I built the recipe for 4, but it's easy to adjust to any quantity.

4 chicken breasts
4 tablespoons chilled butter
2 tablespoons minced garlic
4-8 slices of bacon, uncooked

Preheat your oven to 425. Slice lengthwise along the breasts making a pocket. Be careful not to slice all the way through the chicken. Break up the butter into small chunks and place inside the chicken pocket, one tablespoon per chicken breast. Place half tablespoon of minced garlic inside each chicken pocket spreading it out evenly. Tightly wrap the chicken with the bacon, one to two slices each, so the pocket is closed. Place the chicken with sliced ends up on a baking pan with a raise edge. This is important as this recipe will create a lot of juices. Bake at 425 for 30-45 minutes until chicken is done through and bacon is crispy.

You can replace the garlic with other herbs, or add herbs to create a different tasting dish.


This is very good. I usually serve it with a garden salad.

Enjoy!

Purcellville Encore

The last post about the Purcellville Family Restaurant dealt with our experience eating lunch there. Since then, we've had the distinct pleasure of eating breakfast twice. Both times the place was so full that getting a table was by sheer luck. Since the restaurant is only a block and a half away from the bike store that sits at the end of the W&OD trail, a lot of the clientele on the weekends were cyclists, and a bigger part were locals who were all called by name. By the third time we went in, the waitresses were smiling at us like we were locals.

Breakfast is their forte! They make a limited but delicious spread. The first breakfast, we had the same thing: scrambled eggs, sausage patties, bacon, home fries, and toast (although I had an english muffin.) The flavors of the bacon and sausage were amazing! We went back the following weekend with friends and the quality and flavors were just as we remembered! It was OMG good!

The staff were just as quirky and humorous and fun as always. The crowds were intense but fun to watch. One mid twenty something "gentleman" decided to be rude to a waitress and got a dressing down from the next table. But overall, a very positive experience, and a restaurant that has hit our favorites list and we'll be back to many times.