Babette Redux

Bird is taking a home study cooking class. (Some of you may laugh, but I can do one better—I know for a fact that HB took a home study dance class for college credit.)

One of the requirements is to give a presentation on preparing and cooking a simple meal to a group of 3 people or is it to prepare a meal for 3 simple people? Bird chose cs, Megs, and me. Janny was present, but in the other room zoning out and entertaining Bug (or vise-versa) with the Wii. FSIL was working late.

The demoed meal was Chicken Marsala. She had sliced up the chicken breast into thin slices, then breaded it in flour with salt, and fried it in a pan with olive oil, mushrooms, two cloves of chopped up garlic and parsley. (Bear with me, I'm going by memory here.)

I do remember that she said that it could be cooked in Marsala wine—hence the name of the dish, but she chose to use chicken broth as a substitute. She then served it over some cooked rice that she had prepared a secret way—using chicken broth instead of water. It improves the flavor.

The meal was delicious and of course she received the highest evaluation from 2 of the 3 people. What's up with that, Megs?

If all us give her 100%, then it will look like it's rigged.

Great meal, Bird. Now, FSIL has his own Babette to wine (chicken broth) and dine him.