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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[wildeabandon.livejournal.com]

Hrm. Haven't heard anything - is that because you got an attack of busyness, or are things playing up again? My new address /should/ be working by now, which is elise at wildeabandon dot org, or if that doesn't work then you could try my work email, which is elisabethconolly at eeda dot org dot uk.

[simont]

Sorry! You were right the first time: I had an attack of needing to do some work. I'll now email all the addresses I can find and see which one you reply from. *hugs*