Marsala

Weird eating day. Got to school early to help get a leg up on cooking a rather large meal for about 40 heads, which had to have apps out at 5:30 and entrees out at 6. Funny, after a lot of thought and anxiety on my part, the logistics went great. I spent a couple of hours getting four huge pound cakes in the over and pounded out 50+ chicken breasts, and was able to drive the 6 students at a moderate pace to get everything out on time.

Despite being such a standard fare, I've never had Chicken Marsala before -- I've had chicken in creamy wine sauce with veg, but not in this specific style. Breast dredged in flour-salt-oregano, browned in butter, mushrooms sauteed in same butter, all places in a baking dish with marsala wine, poached for 20 minutes, chicken removed, heavy cream added, sauce reduced, seasoned, topped on the chicken and mushrooms. The marsala was a bit too sweet, but it was some cheap-ass bottom shelf stuff. This dish over mushroom risotto would be filling, but rocking.


AM SNACK: 7:45am, iced green tea


AM SNACK: 10:30am, handful of chocolate covered espresso beans

SCHOOL NIBBLES: 2-7pm, tastes of broccoli, potatoes, chicken marsala, pound cake, mik shake, a few shrimp scampi, salsa & chips, a few swigs of soda, .5 bowl, hunger 4/5


DINNER: 8:15pm, chicken marsala, mashed potatoes, pound cake, 1.5 bowl, hunger 4/5