I did it! I did it!

Poor Ian has been down with the flu for the last few days, so scarily it was down to me to cook for casa spinneyhead. I have a genuine fear of cooking for other people - too much pressure - especially when electric hobs are involved. I also had the added pressure of cooking something that might make Ian better and something non processed.

But I dit it, I broke my innovative cooking duck. Which I was especially pleased with as if I'm cooking from fresh I am always tempted to follow a recipe but this just entered my head. Ian has passed on some of his haphazard wisdom it seems. The recipe went something like this:

1 lb chopped chicken
handful of dried thyme
1 lemon, sqeezed
2 teaspoons of chopped garlic
4 cloves of garlic
1 aubergine, chopped
5 new potatos, scrubbed and chopped
2 tablespoons of tomato paste
2 teapoons of olive pesto
2 tablespoons of olive oil

The amounts are very approximate but I put the thyme, lemon juice and chopped garlic into a bowl and marinaded the chicken. The potato, aubergine and garlic cloves were all covered in oil and put in the oven to roast at about 200 degrees C. Then I mixed the tomato paste with some water and added the pesto until it tasted nice. This was stirred in with the veg in the oven. The remainder of the oil was put in a saucepan to cook the chicken and the marinade. That was about it, although I did garnish the chicken with a few sliced of lemon that I briefly shoved in with the veg.

It turned out very well, I was complemented! I still need to work on my timing though, the potatos took a lot longer than I thought but I'll learn.

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posted by Clare at 9:22 AM

2 Comments:

too many ingredients for me, but it sounds delicious. i don't suppose you'd consider coming over to my house to make it... of course it would involve a cross-Atlantic flight. but what price love?

I'd have to check with Clare, because that's actually her recipe. But any time we're on the same side of the Atlantic I'd be happy to cook for you.

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