I’ve had a busy week and I’m anxious to spend a little time in the kitchen tonight. What’s on the menu? Caribbean Chicken Breast served with brown rice, a spinach salad and Gallo’s Twin Valley White Merlot 2001. Want the recipe for the chicken? Here ya go.
- 6 oz. skinless, boneless chicken breast
- 1 oz. ham, thinly sliced
- ¼ of a banana
- Lemon pepper to taste
- 1 egg
- 2 Tbsp. flour
- Small bundle of watercress
Flatten the chicken breast with a mallet. Roll the ham around the banana. Wrap the chicken breast around the ham and banana. Beat the egg and season with the lemon pepper. Flour the chicken breast and roll it in the egg mixture. Bake in a 325°F oven for about 20 minutes. Garnish with the watercress and serve it with the brown rice.
This makes one serving. Need more? Just add another chicken breast, another ¼ banana and more ham for each additional person.
This could also be served with a sweet and sour sauce but you might want to drink something else with it. I don’t think the sweet and sour sauce would go well with a white merlot. Maybe saké?
About Larry D. Burton
I'm a 55 year old controls engineer who just likes tinkering with stuff.
Finished high school at a local institute of learning. Decided it wasn't a good time to be a healthy, physically fit 18 year old with no college experience. Entered college and started working toward a degree in animal husbandry.
1975-1976
Discoverd that I was not going to be a very good husband of animals so I left school to figure out what I might be good at. A local beverage company took pity on me and paid me to go from place to place making sure their on tap beverages were maintaining their high quality.
1976-1979
Got out of quality control and into vending. Learned about control systems and refrigeration also learned that vending machines are heavy and vending doesn't pay all that well.
In 1977 I found myself married
1979-1981
Dedicated myself to installing and maintaining commercial refrigeration equipment. Found myself on the roof of a local grocery store one night in the middle of an ice storm replacing a compressor and figured it was time to get back into school.
1981-1986
Got my but back into school at night and changed jobs to keep the mechanical and electrical systems of a local coporate hospital in working order. The job expanded to unstopping drains and burning lab samples and amputated body parts.
1986-now
Finished school and took on a job designing, installing and maintaining industrial control systems. Along the way I picked up a bunch of computer skills that became very useful connecting various industrial controllers to one another and moving the data into coporate databases. I now operate Dallas Bay Technologies, a one man shop specializing in technology solutions for industrial problems.
