In our weekly Cooking With Christian Music feature, worship leader Frances Drost shares a recipe for one of her husband’s favorite meals. “It’s called Chicken Parmesan,” she says. “But you could call it, ‘I’m sorry I have to be on the road again, but here’s your favorite meal to make up for it'”

Chicken Parmesean
from Frances Drost
As a traveling singer/songwriter and speaker, life on the road has challenges you might not think about! Like keeping your husband well-fed and cared for even while you’re gone. My husband’s a pretty basic man. He likes good food and was glad he found a wife who had grown up learning to cook and provide good meals 3 times a day. Thankfully, that wasn’t the only criteria for a good wife. He has been the biggest supporter of my growing music ministry and now that I’m on the road a good bit, he has had to surrender his ideals for a wife who cooks all the time. Though he can survive OK on his own, it would most likely be things like cereal and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I try and cook some good stuff for him before I go so he can eat better than that even while I’m gone.

I have one recipe that I usually always make in the crock pot before I head out of town and it lasts him for a few days and he STILL loves it every time I make it. The recipe came from his mom and is quite simple, but it’s always a hit with him:
2 c. Of chicken cut up (or whole)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can mushrooms and juice
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup cooking sherry
Place chicken in 9 X 13 pan
Mix remaining ingredients and place over chicken
Sprinkle paprika on top
Bake @ 350 for 1 hour. Serve over rice.