My mother always thought of herself as a mediocre cook. It wasn't that she couldn't cook. In fact, she was quite good at it and sometimes it even came out "looking just like the picture on the tin," to quote Penelope Keith's character on the BBC sitcom Good Neighbors (one of her favorite tv shows). I asked her for this recipe she had always called Parmesean Chicken, which she called so because the main ingredients were Parmesean and chicken. My title comes from what I had always fondly called it when I was a child.

My mother is also an avid writer, so when she did give me her recipe, she wrote it down in a story or essay format from which I've had to figure out exactly what she might have meant.

Because of this, the recipe I have transcribed here is not the recipe she gave me, but rather the recipe that I've experimented with enough to make it come out mostly as what I remember. If not for my husband and his mom's fried chicken recipe, I might never have figured it out!