Aaah. Smug mode.

[simont]

Prue just came round for dinner. Since she's been round here a fair number of times and I've already cooked her pretty much everything I know how to cook, I thought I'd stretch myself by making up something new to add to my repertoire.

This is a nervous business, as elise – my last guinea-pig – will probably remember. I get slightly edgy anyway when I'm cooking a dish for the first time; significantly more edgy when the first attempt is cooked for a guest; and quite a lot more edgy still when it's a recipe I only just assembled and I've no idea yet whether it'll work or not.

Fortunately, it did, and unlike my last new recipe I didn't even have to take notes on how to improve the next attempt. Lemon pepper chicken breast served with lemon, pepper and peppers risotto[1], and the whole thing Just Worked right down to the timing. A few more successes like that and I might even manage to stop being so nervous about the whole business :-)

[1] Arrgh. Putting peppers (as in the multicoloured crunchy vegetable) and pepper (as in the powdery hot stuff) in the same recipe tasted nice, but is a linguistic nightmare.

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[simont]

*smile*

Actually, the chicken was the easy part: I did it pretty much exactly as you suggested and it just worked. The interesting (in the Chinese sense) bit, and therefore the bit I'm smug about, was the risotto side, which I managed without help (unless you count Google).

But yeah, good point. Let anyone reading this take note that the chicken part of the recipe was due to lark_ascending, and that she is therefore a Good Thing.