Chicken schnitzel

The Courtney burger

Posted by Gary

Last week I posted about The Courtney, aka a chicken schnitzel with Hollandaise sauce. Tonight I made The Courtney burger! This delicious burger is simply a chicken thigh schnitzel fried in butter and served with Hollandaise sauce on a hamburger bread roll. I’ve added some raw onion and iceberg lettuce for crunch. The bread roll has also been lightly toasted to add a crunchy mouth feel.

The Courtney burger
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
Author: Gary Lum
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
  • Chicken thigh schnitzel
  • Hollandaise sauce
  • Burger bread roll
  • Tasty Coon cheese slices
  • Iceberg lettuce
  • White onion
  • Pepper
  • Butter
  • Tomato
Instructions
  1. Cook the chicken thigh schnitzel in grapeseed oil and butter
  2. Toast the bread roll
  3. Slice the tomato
  4. Slice a white onion
  5. Break off some iceberg lettuce leaves
  6. Build the burger
  7. Some butter
  8. Some cheese
  9. Some onion
  10. Some lettuce
  11. Tomato
  12. The schnitzel
  13. The Hollandaise sauce
  14. Shoot some photographs
  15. Eat The Courtney Burger
  16. Wash the dishes
  17. Write the recipes
  18. Blog (verb)

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Earlier in the day I enjoyed a smoked salmon and cream cheese poppy seed bagel.

Smoked salmon, cream cheese, dill and capers on a poppyseed bagel for lunch
Smoked salmon, cream cheese, dill and capers on a poppyseed bagel for lunch
Smoked salmon, cream cheese, dill and capers on a poppyseed bagel for lunch
Smoked salmon, cream cheese, dill and capers on a poppyseed bagel for lunch

Would you make a Courtney burger?

The Courtney

Posted by Gary

***Check out the update below***

I have a very good friend at work who likes a chicken schnitzel. I love chicken schnitzel. This friend also likes Hollandaise sauce. I love Hollandaise sauce. He told me one of his daughters has a friend named Courtney who likes chicken schnitzel and Hollandaise sauce together. My good friend from work feels this is anathema, an abomination. I on the other hand believe this Courtney is brilliant. She is a genius. In my mind The Courtney is perfect.

I present The Courtney

This one is from the Canberra Southern Cross Club Jamison.

"The Courtney" Chicken schnitzel with Hollandaise sauce
“The Courtney” Chicken schnitzel with Hollandaise sauce

This week we read in the NT News (the greatest newspaper in the universe) about some Darwin lads who anonymously rate chicken parmigiana in and around Darwin. They even have a Facebook page dedicated to their quest for the perfect chook parmy.

I suggested to my friend we could do this with chook schnitty in Canberra. I reckon this would be very cool and it would see me approaching my record weight from days gone by. Perhaps not a great idea after all. I’ll reconsider the idea I think. I really need to lose some weight. Today I enjoyed my fifth episode of birthday cake. Today I was at the hospital and my doctor friends took me to afternoon tea and spoilt me with cake.

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How do you feel about The Courtney?

 

A Courtney update

So today (Tuesday 2015-05-19) my friend (from above) from work went to The Tradies at Woden with a couple of friends and I had another Courtney. This was was pretty good.

The Courtney from The Tradies, Woden
The Courtney from The Tradies, Woden

Chicken Schnitzel at The Woden Tradies

Posted by Gary

A couple of work mates and I went to The Woden Tradies today for chicken schnitzel.

The Tradies at Woden isn’t far from work so it was a pleasant walk in a relatively warm and mildly humid day in Canberra. As a member I was eligible for a discount and I could share that discount with my mates. Ordinarily a standard schnitty costs $18 and a legendary schnitty costs $20. Today a schnitty with any sauce, mash or chips and salad or vegetables cost all of $12.

One of my mates was explaining how one of his daughters has a friend who has hollandaise sauce with her schnitty and she will order two serves of hollandaise sauce so she can coat everything including chips (fries for north American readers and French fries I assume for readers from France ) with it. When I suggested I’d have hollandaise sauce there was laughter and comments about I wouldn’t…

 

Yes, I did 

The Woden Tradies Chicken schnitzel with mashed potato and vegetables plus hollandaise sauce all for $12 Apple iPhone 6 Plus with iPhone 6 Plus back camera 4.15mm f/2.2 at 4mm and f/2.2, 1/210sec, ISO 32
The Woden Tradies Chicken schnitzel with mashed potato and vegetables plus hollandaise sauce all for $12 Apple iPhone 6 Plus with iPhone 6 Plus back camera 4.15mm f/2.2 at 4mm and f/2.2, 1/210sec, ISO 32

The Chicken Schnitzel at The Woden Tradies is pretty good. It’s a generous portion. The crumb coating is complete and not too thick. The mashed potato I think was powdered potato, its consistency was that of thick clag or perkins paste. The vegetables were on the over cooked side. I’m guessing the Hollandaise sauce wasn’t made in the kitchen. That said, it was tasty and satisfying and a great lunch when enjoying laughs and stories with work mates. 

I was pretty full after lunch so I had a salad for tea tonight 

Bacon salad with feta cheese and avocado NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/16, 1/20sec, ISO 400
Bacon salad with feta cheese and avocado NIKON D7100 with 40.0 mm f/2.8 at 40mm and f/16, 1/20sec, ISO 400

 

Chicken schnitzel on fried noodles and salad

Posted by Gary

It’s been a busy week and my sleep has been badly affected by allergic rhinitis. This morning I woke up feeling pretty groggy after taking a double dose of my usual antihistamine treatment last night. This time of year is really bad in Canberra if you suffer from hay fever. 

There is so much fluff in the air and most of it gets caught in the grass. | SONY ILCE-7S with FE 55mm F1.8 ZA at 55mm and f/8, 1/250sec, ISO 250
There is so much fluff in the air and most of it gets caught in the grass. | SONY ILCE-7S with FE 55mm F1.8 ZA at 55mm and f/8, 1/250sec, ISO 250

So tonight I enjoyed a chicken schnitzel which I made with some fried noodles and a salad.

Saturday dinner. Chicken schnitzel on fried noodles with salad. | NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/8, 1/60sec, ISO 400
Saturday dinner. Chicken schnitzel on fried noodles with salad. | NIKON D7100 with 90.0 mm f/2.8 at 90mm and f/8, 1/60sec, ISO 400

It was pretty good. I love the crispiness of the noodles and the freshness of the salad. It is a nice thigh chicken schnitzel too. 

 

Breakfast shot

Saturday breakfast. Fried egg in fried toast. | NIKON D7100 with 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 at 200mm and f/8, 1/250sec, ISO 400
Saturday breakfast. Fried egg in fried toast. | NIKON D7100 with 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 at 200mm and f/8, 1/250sec, ISO 400

 

 

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Family and community fun day Public Holiday

Posted by Gary

Today is family and community fun day in Canberra. It’s a public holiday so I celebrated by eating well. I also went to Floriade for a second time this year and enjoyed a couple of good long walks. 

As much as I love a long weekend and a public holiday I reckon we have too many bunched up at the wrong times. When I’m president of Australia we’ll have one long weekend every month. We’ll observe Australia day and Anzac day on the actual day. People with a religious bent can take personal recreational leave to obverse those days. In my opinion that’s a fairer and better way.  

Because it’s Monday I needed to eat salmon so I had it for breakfast.

Good morning Family and community fun day breakfast. Salmon and egg. | NIKON D7100 with 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 at 125mm and f/16, 1/30sec, ISO 400
Good morning Family and community fun day breakfast. Salmon and egg. | NIKON D7100 with 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 at 125mm and f/16, 1/30sec, ISO 400

It was pretty good. I baked it for 16 minutes at 200 °C in my benchtop oven. A soft fried egg does wonders. 

After breakfast I went to Floriade to check out the bulbs hoping they were better than when I went there last week. If you like photographs of colourful flowers please visit my post on today’s public holiday trip to Floriade.

Lunch involved some shallow frying of a chicken schnitzel plus some cheese.

Family and community fun day lunch. Chicken schnitzel and cheeses. | NIKON D7100 with 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 at 160mm and f/16, 1/15sec, ISO 400
Family and community fun day lunch. Chicken schnitzel and cheeses. | NIKON D7100 with 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 at 160mm and f/16, 1/15sec, ISO 400

I’ve been saving a beef brisket for a public holiday to give me time to cook it slowly enough.

This beef brisket was cooked for 4 hours at 140 °C. Canberra has been unseasonally warm on this public holiday so I made a salad to go with my beef brisket.

Happy family and community fun day dinner. Beef Brisket and Salad. | NIKON D7100 with 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 at 116mm and f/16, 1/15sec, ISO 400
Happy family and community fun day dinner. Beef Brisket and Salad. | NIKON D7100 with 55.0-200.0 mm f/4.0-5.6 at 116mm and f/16, 1/15sec, ISO 400

I hope you had a happy family and community fun day public holiday. What did you get up to?

 
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