Champion Chicken

Easy baked chicken, just chicken topped with Homemade Sazón , a fresh 'n' alive Dominican sauce made with bell peppers, parsley and cilantro, onion and other pantry ingredients. So easy! So good! Plus a new trick for browning chicken! So yeah, it's November and baseball talk is “so October”. But this story, it strikes me as one with year-round lessons. You see, St. Louis is a baseball town, always has been. As girls, my friends Cindy and Kathy learned to tally scorecards from their dad who himself grew up in the Knothole Gang, boys who watched home games for free peering through the fences of the old Sportsman’s Park. Live in St. Louis and just by breathing the air, you learn these stories and names the likes of “Stan the Man” Musial, Bob Gibson and Lou Brock, Joe Torre and Ozzie Smith, and in my years here, Mark McGwire and Albert Pujols. Baseball fans know that in 2011 the Cardinals played forgettable ball for the first 130 games, 80% of the regular season. I