All is shadow here below! The world is a shadow; and it passes away! The creature is a shadow; and the loveliest and the fondest may be the first to die! Health is a shadow; fading, and in a moment gone! Wealth is a shadow; today upon the summit of affluence, tomorrow at its base, plunged into poverty and dependence! Human friendships and creature affections are but shadows; sweet and pleasant while they last, but, with a worm feeding at the root of all created good, the sheltering gourd soon withers, exposing us to the sun's burning heat by day, and to the frost's cold chill by night! Oh, yes! “Passing Away” is indelibly inscribed upon everything here below! Yet how slow are we to realize the solemn lesson: “What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!” Unconverted reader, what is your life but a vapor that passes away?and what are its pursuits but shadows; unreal, unsatisfying, evanescent? Your rank, your wealth, your honors, your pleasures, are but phantoms which appear but for a little while, and then are lost in the deeper shadow of the grave, and the still deeper and longer shadow of eternity! Oh, turn from these dreams and hallucinations, and, as a rational, accountable, immortal being, on your way to judgment, fix your mind upon your solemn, endless future! You are going to die! And, oh, when that dread hour comes, so real and appalling, how will your past life appear?

Octavius Winslow

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Meats		Poultry	6	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Whole chicken breast; halved, boned; and skinned
1/4	c	Flour
1/4	ts	Salt
1/4	ts	Cayenne pepper
1/2	ts	Paprika
1	tb	Olive oil
4		Scallions; sliced
1		Clove garlic; crushed
3	tb	Unsalted butter
1/2	c	Sweet sherry
2	tb	Fresh lime juice
1	ds	Tabasco sauce
1/3	c	Pimento-stuffed green olives; sliced
1		Lime; quartered
2		Parsley sprigs

INSTRUCTIONS

Flatten the chicken breast halves between two sheets of waxed paper with
the side of a cleaver or a rolling pin. Mix the flour, salt, pepper and
paprika. Dredge the chicken pieces in the seasoned flour and set aside.
Heat the olive over medium heat in a frying pan; add the scallions and
garlic.  Saute and stir for about 2 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon to
a heated dish.
Add the butter to the same frying pan.  Add the chicken pieces when the
butter is bubbly.  Fry the chicken until brown, about 3 minutes on each
side. Increase heat to high; add the sherry, lime juice, Tabasco sauce,
sliced olives and the reserved scallions and garlic. Cook less than 2
minutes. Remove the chicken to heated serving plates. Spoon the sauce from
the pan over the chicken. Garnish with lime quarters and parsley sprigs.
Serve with an 8-ounce can of stewed tomatoes with 2 tablespoons of bottled
Caesar-type salad dressing mixed in with it and sprinkled with Parmesan
cheese.
[ Asbury Park Press; December 2, 1987 ]
Posted by Fred Peters.
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 10:41:42 -0500
From: pickell@cyberspc.mb.ca (S.Pickell)
MM-Recipes Digest V3 #174
From the MealMaster recipe list.  Downloaded from Glen's MM Recipe Archive,
http://www.erols.com/hosey.

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