| Quick fix: Chicken with prosciutto
The first time I encountered the savory pleasures of chicken breast, ham and cheese was at my high school's honor society dinner in 1972: chicken cordon bleu. It seemed so exotic at the time: chicken breast pounded thin, stuffed with baked ham and Swiss cheese, then breaded and deep-fried. .
Italian twist helps French poultry dish
The first time I encountered the savory combination of chicken breast, ham and cheese was at my high school's honor society dinner in 1972. Chicken Cordon Bleu seemed so exotic at the time: chicken breast pounded thin, stuffed with baked ham and Swiss cheese, then breaded and deep-fried. Then again, I was only 17. These days, I still like the combination of lean chicken breast, salty ham and creamy cheese. But I'm just as likely to use paper-thin prosciutto and the creamy Italian cheese Taleggio, as this recipe does. Sometimes I even leave off the bread crumbs. CHICKEN WITH PROSCIUTTO AND TALEGGIO Makes 4 servings Pounding the chicken breasts to 1/4-inch thick helps them cook quickly and evenly. Serve the dish with instant brown rice, spinach salad and watermelon wedges.
Bitterness lingers 2 years after Katrina
James Chaney spent the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina doing what he's been doing since the killer storm crashed ashore - working on a damaged home. "My house is pretty close to being done, now we're trying to get my sister home," said Chaney, 39. "Thank God for family and friends. If it wasn't for them nobody would ever get back here." Two years after Katrina hit, a storm of bitterness and anger has yet to clear. While memorials were held to mark the day, residents fumed about the government's response and marched to demand help. "We want people to know that nothing is being done to help people here," said Samuel Banks, 40, as he marched with about 1,000 other protesters Wednesday. "How can the city rebuild if nobody has money or jobs?" President Bush visited the first school to reopen in the hard-hit Lower 9th Ward and pledged additional aid.
The Departing
Stephen Michener is a man with a plan. He hands it to me as we sit on the couch in his second-floor Jamaica Plain condo a slim white binder with the words Boston Metro Evac handwritten with a Sharpie on the spine. Following that, in parentheses, is written simply: (Plan B). "We started putting this together two years ago," he says. "We're still adding to it." The binder is already an impressive blueprint for someone wanting to leave Boston in a hurry. An architect with close-cropped hair and black Prada glasses, Michener has put the same care into this project as he might into a gut-rehab. Tabbed sections hold notes on work necessary to sell his house, color-coded maps of Brookline that mark locations of playgrounds, bus routes, and school districts, and printouts of current homes on the market there.
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