Marry Me Chicken

Start with good chicken. I mean it. Seek out a farmer who raises birds with access to pasture, to bugs, to sun. The texture and flavor of properly raised chicken is incomparable. This dish celebrates that ingredient, surrounding it with a sauce rich enough to be memorable but simple enough for any Tuesday.

The technique here is nothing fancy. You sear the chicken until golden, build a quick cream sauce in the same pan, then let everything finish together. Sun-dried tomatoes bring concentrated summer sweetness. Fresh basil arrives at the end, its perfume released by the warmth of the dish. Parmesan melts into the cream and ties it all together.

Every meal is a meaningful choice. When you buy chicken from someone who raises animals well, you support a kind of farming worth preserving. The sauce cannot hide inferior meat. Let things taste of what they are, and start with something worth tasting.