Bacon-Spinach Stuffed Chicken

Eventhough today was kind of a strange day, I was excited all day long to come home and cook.  Many of my recipes are inspirations of other recipes I know.  But my favorites are when I completely make it up and it turns into a huge success.  And that is what I did today!  And it was soooo good.  But how can you go wrong with bacon, right?  So here it is....my latest masterpiece in the kitchen!

Bacon-Spinach Stuffed Chicken
4-6 large chicken breasts (depending on how suffed you want them to be)
1 c ricotta cheese
1 c mozzerella cheese
1/2 c frozen spinach, thawed and drained
6 pieces bacon
1 egg
salt
pepper
parmesean cheese
melted butter

Begin by cooking the bacon until crisp.  Cut or crumble the bacon into small pieces.  Mix the cheeses, bacon spinach, egg, salt, and pepper in a bowl.  Continue by pounding the chicken breasts with a meat hammer (or a rolling pin, or an actual hammer).  The thinner they are, the quicker they cook.  But at the same time, the thinner they are the harder, the harder they are to stuff (I wouldn't go thinner than 1/2 inch, but I prefer a little thicker).  Once you have obtained a fairly large surface of chicken, spoon 1/4 cheese mixture onto the center of each piece of chicken.  Fold the chicken pieces in half, with the mixture on the inside, and secure with toothpicks.  Place chicken pieces into a 9x13 baking pan.  Brush the tops of the pieces with melted butter and sprinkle with parmesean cheese.  Bake in a 400 degree oven for 35-45 minutes.  This time will vary slightly depending on how thin you pounded your chicken.

When it comes out it looks like this:

I used 4 chicken breast so the stuffed exploded out during cooking.  I love it this way.  Like I said, this is soooooo good.   And I'm not just saying that because I made it up!