The top of the day to you.

I have a great friend for over 22 years and she is not being able to get away all the much so every so often I prepare a meal for her. She asked me if I knew how to prepare Chicken. Well it was something I didn't want to do, but I had to take into consideration that we must always give people what they want when they are paying for what they want and not try to give them what they need. One of those basic marketing tips I learned a long time ago!

So I thought, "what the heck, let's go for it." So I found a great place that prides themselves with Free-Range Chickens and it was already cooked Rotisserie Style to boot. So I bought one and had them cut the legs off it, as I would probably have refused if she had have told me how to do. It's one thing asking someone to do something for you, but it's quite another when they tell you how. So I just got her the breast quarters.

I took the skin off them and I steamed up some (whole) Yellow Summer Squash and some Zucchini Squash. I cut the white meat only into small chunks and when the Squash was done (You just bring the water to a boil while the squash is in the steamer for exactly 1 minute then shut the stove off so the squash can finish cooking in the steam. It usually takes about 5 more minutes…much like steeping a cup of tea where you just let it set for a few minutes...in this case 5 minutes), put the whole cooked
Squash on top of the Chicken Chunks and cut the squash into ½" slices and mix thoroughly using some Parsley and Basil as flavoring agents.

I brought it over and the two women were ecstatic!

Now one last thing I will qualify myself for sharing with you this recipe. I have now almost 12,000 people who read my messages each week. Last week it was 10,638, so you can see the readership is really growing and one of my biggest requests this last month (over 2000 of them if you can imagine) was to produce a recipe that wasn't Vegetarian! So for all the ones who may be offended with this, forgive me but I do want to try and please everyone which is a real tough call.

I know everything has a price. No one has a corner on success. Pay the price for it and it is yours.

There is no easy road to success. You've got to work a great deal harder than most people to get it. Nothing worthwhile will come easily to you.
Hard work will accomplish results that last.

No matter what you want from life, you've got to give up something to get it. There is no success at bargain basement prices. You'll find that the highway to success is a toll road.

And I know I'll have to pay the price with some dissatisfied folks, but this is a chance I had to take to appease so many of you who have been with me since day one over 2 years ago and have asked for a healthier way to eat Chicken! So this was the only way I knew how to do it (other than a Chicken Caesar Salad and you just add the Chicken to the Caesar Salad I gave you a few weeks ago). Enjoy it for the ones who are excited about it.

By the way, there is just one thing I know of that there isn't a price to pay for and that's your health; you just have to enjoy the benefits. And the only way I know how to do that is to embrace the things that make us healthy as I wrote in last month's article. If anyone would like to have that article, please let me know and I will forward it to you right away.

Best to you.

Wayne "The Mango Man" Pickering = THE AMBASSADOR FOR HEALTH!

PS If you like Brazilian Jazz, Toots Thielemans' "The Brazil Project" is superb! I just checked it out of the library and it will put you in the mood.

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