...Ceases to tingle...

I LOOOVE this simple recipe and thought you may too

so I added it to Rhoda's recipe party...

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Ok...so maybe this just looks like a glass of wine.

Really it is one of the most simple dishes

you can put together.

I got it from a little paperback book about Italian cooking

back when I was in Highschool.

In the 1970's. Eegads. 70's?!

Late seventies...Late late seventies. Yep.

My Mom...while a great cook...never did Italian.

Canadian.

But not Italian.

So...In High School, bought a little paperback recipe book to learn to cook Italian.

Written by an Italian grandma. No doubt.

This recipe grabbed me from the minute I read it...

mainly because the author said:

'Till the vapor ceases to tingle the nose'

She is talking about that point when you add some wine to a dish

and it bubbles...and by God...the vapor DOES tingle the nose!

... that is when you add the lemon.

How simple and perfect is that I ask?

The only problem is...I have never

in all the years and years and years of

making this dish been able to

make it without saying

'Till the vapor ceases to tingle your nose'

just at that point. And aloud. In a bad Italian accent.

It is my Chicken Piccatta mantra.

And now...my 13 year old has learned it.

...BUT

It doesn't work with pasta

or boiling water...

...only that perfect point when you have permission to add the lemon to the chicken.

'Till the vapor ceases to tingle the nose.'

If you make it. You'll be saying it. I promise.

Chicken Piccatta

wish I knew the book/author...but only have my HS writing where I scribbled it word for word in a recipe book

1 and 1/2 lbs of chicken breast

1/2 c. of flour

6TBSP unsalted butter

1 tsp salt

1/2 c. of dry white wine

1/2 lemon, juiced

Pound chicken. Press in flour. Melt butter, add chicken and cook until browned.

Turn and salt. When chicken is finished pour in wine and let bubble until wait for it the vapor ceases to tingle the nose.

Add 1/2 lemon. Stir with wooden spoon. Add salt and more lemon if needed.

Simple.Honest.

Don't forget to use the wooden spoon.

Apparently important too.

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