Juicy breast meat with spinach, cream cheese, wrapped up in a flaky pastry. Serve this easy yet classy gourmet tasting dish for your next impressive dinner.
Ingredients
1 box (9 oz) frozen chopped spinach
1 cup diced tomatoes drained
½ cup chopped onion
1 package 8 oz cream cheese, cut into cubes
4 slices Gruyere cheese
salt & pepper
1 can Crescent Dough Sheet
2 boneless skinless chicken breasts (8 oz each), cut in half
½ cup non fat half-and-half
Directions:
Heat oven to 350°F. 
Cut up the onion and saute it in skillet until starting to brown. Add the thawed and drained spinach. Let this cook for 4 minutes. Then add pieces of cream cheese.
Stir until well melted in and set aside to cool.
Cut each chicken breast half sideways to make thiner. I prefer this to pounding it flat as many recipes say. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and Italian seasonings.
Cover a baking sheet with parchment paper and spray the grill that sits on top.
Roll out some wax papper on the counter. Open the cressant dough and roll this out also. With a table knife cut the sheet into four equal pieces. If using the dough that is perforated, pinch the seems together.
Lay out a slice of the Gruyere cheese on each. Place a tablespoon of the spinach mixture next and spread it out. Press a piece of chicken on each.
Now pull the ends of the pastry up over the middle. (it will stretch very easly) Then close up the sides and place on sprayed rack. Place seam sides down.
Draw a serated knife across each packet twice. Then beat an egg into a small bowl and brush each packet well. This will give it a deep golden glaze.
Place in preheated oven for 45 – 50 minutes, They will turn a beautiful color and to make sure they are done, insert a thermometer to check on 160 degrees!
Remove and let rest while you fix a microwave green vegetable and heat up the diced tomatoes with ½ of non-fat half & half. Let this simmer until broken down into a great sauce!
Serve warm sauce over the Verde Pollos.
Serve with a side of mixed vegetables.
Serving Size: 1 Serving
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Franco Grillini (born in 1955) is an Italian politician and Italy's most prominent gay rights activist.
He was born in Pianoro, Province of Bologna. During the 1970s, he took part in student political movements. He attended the University of Bologna, graduating in 1979 with a degree in education, and subsequently became a psychologist, psychotherapist, and journalist. He was 27 years old and engaged to a woman when he came out.
Grillini entered politics in the 1970s; in 1985 he ran as a Communist Party candidate in the province of Bologna. From 1991 to 2001 he held continuous membership of the Ministry of Health’s “National Council for the Fight against AIDS”. He was elected for the first time to the Council of the Province of Bologna in 1990 and subsequently re-elected in 1995 and 1999. In 1999 he was named the president of the Italian Ministry for Equal Opportunities’ “Commission for the Rights and Equal Opportunities of Homosexual People”.
He joined the Democratic Party of the Left, which later became Democrats of the Left. He was first elected to the Italian Parliament in 2001 and re-elected in 2006. In 2007, he left his party, refusing to join the Democratic Party, and joined the Democratic Left movement.
Among the legislation, Grillini has proposed is a civil union law similar to the French PACS and adding sexual orientation and gender identity to the anti-discrimination article of the Constitution of Italy.
On 28 June 1982, Grillini helped found the Circolo Omosessuale Ventotto Giugno in Bologna, the first gay group to receive government funding. This group would develop into the national group Arcigay, Italy's leading gay organization, founded in 1985. Grillini was its secretary for two years before becoming its President in 1987. In 1988, he called a special session of Arcigay to recognize the presence of lesbians in the organization. Since 1998, he has been Honorary President of Arcigay.
He has also founded LILA (Italian League for the Fight Against AIDS), in 1987; LINFA (Italian New Families League - originally LIFF, Italian Common-Law Families League), which aims to promote legislation for the legal recognition of homosexual and heterosexual partnerships, in 1997; and in 1998 founded NOI (Italian Gay News), Italy's first gay news agency, of which he remains the editor.
Grillini is considered the leading LGBT figure in Italy. This country has an interesting history concerning LGBT rights.
In Italy, both male and female same-sex sexual activity has been legal since 1890, when a new Penal Code was enacted. A civil unions law was not passed until 2016 that provides same-sex couples with some of the rights of marriage. The same law provides both same-sex and heterosexual couples who live in an unregistered cohabitation with several legal rights. In 2017, the Italian Supreme Court allowed marriage between two women to be officially recognized.
Italian unification in 1861 brought together several States which had all (except for two) abolished punishment for private, non-commercial and homosexual acts between consenting adults as a result of the Napoleonic Code.
With unification, the former Kingdom of Sardinia extended its criminalizing legislation to the rest of the newly born Kingdom of Italy. However, this legislation did not apply to the former Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, taking into account the "particular characteristics of those that lived in the south".
This situation remained in place until the fascist government proclaimed in 1930, Rocco Code. They wanted to avoid discussion of the issue completely. Repression was a matter for the Catholic Church and not the Italian State.
This did not prevent the fascist authorities from targeting male homosexuals with administrative punishment, such as public admonition and confinement; and gays were persecuted in the later years of the regime of Benito Mussolini, and under the Italian Social Republic of 1943–45.
However, during the post-war period, there have been at least three attempts to re-criminalize it. Political attitudes have made it difficult to bring a discussion of measures, for example, to recognize homosexual relationships, to the parliamentary sphere.
Several bills on civil unions or the recognition of rights to unregistered couples had been introduced into the Parliament in the twenty years before 2016, none had been approved owing to the strong opposition from the social conservative members of Parliament.
At present, while technically same-sex couples cannot marry, they can access civil unions, enacted in 2016, which provide some of the rights, benefits, and obligations of marriage. These benefits include shared property, social security, and inheritance.
In 2015, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that in not recognizing any form of civil union or same-sex marriage, the country was violating international human rights.
In 2016, Italian senators started to debate a same-sex civil unions bill. The bill was approved. To ensure swift passage of the bill, Prime Minister Matteo Renzi had earlier declared it a confidence vote saying it was "unacceptable to have any more delays after years of failed attempts."
The civil union's law provides same-sex couples with some rights of marriage, while not allowing same-sex marriage.
In 2002, Franco Grillini introduced legislation that would modify the Italian Constitution to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation. It was not successful.
However, discrimination based on sexual orientation in employment has been illegal throughout the whole country, in conformity with European Union directives.
In 2006, Grillini again introduced a proposal to expand anti-discrimination laws, this time adding gender identity as well as sexual orientation. It received less support than the previous one had.
From 1991 to 2001 he held continuous membership of the Ministry of Health’s “National Council for the Fight against AIDS”. He was elected for the first time to the Council of the Province of Bologna in 1990 and subsequently re-elected in 1995 and 1999. In 1999 he was named the president of the Italian Ministry for Equal Opportunities’ “Commission for the Rights and Equal Opportunities of Homosexual People”.
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