Charles Stricklin

One of my all-time favorite food dishes comes from an Italian chain restaurant called Johnny Carino’s. Called Chicken Scaloppini, the dish is described as, “Breaded, tender chicken medallions sautéed with freshly sliced mushrooms, diced roma tomatoes & flavorful bacon in a lemon butter cream sauce, served with spaghetti.”

Once, I asked a server if I could have the recipe to the lemon button cream sauce, and several minutes later she returned with the following scribbled out on receipt paper:

• Unsalted butter
• Soften at room temperature
• Sautéed onions, garlic, white pepper, salt, lemon juice
• Deglaze with white wine
• Add to the butter

Actually, that’s a cleaned-up and reworded version, the original was all abbreviations and shorthand.

Anyway, I’ve shown this to several cooks and they tell me that without measurements the recipe I was given is practically worthless. I have a hard time believing this.

If you find the above useful in any way toward reconstructing the recipe, please contact me or comment below.

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Oh, my Lord this is the funniest thing I’ve seen in weeks!

Michael Hampton, who alerted me to this, asked if I thought this guy was nervous, stupid, or drunk. I chose ‘nervous.’ I feel so badly for this guy, because it appears to me that he was deathly afraid of screwing up the national anthem, then proceeded to fulfill his worst nightmare.