Island Hopping 2024: Marsala, Fighting Colds, Chicken Marsala

Once in a while on long trips like this the same things that afflict us at home, will also happen on the road.  For the last several days Sandy and I have felt colds coming on.  Finally today it reached the point where we felt it better to forgo some site-seeing and just stay around the cottage where we could keep warm and dry, and get plenty of rest.  The math on this, is pretty simple, our travels will last a little over 100 days.  So each day represents about 1% of our travels.  So giving up a day or two to get a little healthier is usually a fair trade off.  Today we stayed at home to try to fight these colds.  I don’t know where we got it, but Sandy is blaming the Pope for the way we were stuffed into the Sistine Chapel like sardines.

So that we did do something I did go to the market and pick up things needed to make Chicken Marsala.  Staying here in Marsala it almost seemed obligatory. 

The chicken breast, we later cut it in half horizontally making four thin slices.  We then pounded them out to uniform thickness and cut those pieces into smaller pieces

Flour for dredging, salt, pepper, some dried herbs we found in the cupboard

The Olive Oil

Melting in some butter

Dredging the chicken in the flour

Dredged Chicken

Sizzling chicken

Sandy dicing the garlic cloves

Sautéeing the Mushrooms

Now the cream sauce, the store had no heavy cream so we used a combination of regular cream and cream cheese

Of course we added Marsala at every step of the preparation

Our Chicken Marsala in the pan

Our chicken Marsala on the plate.