Too many cooks? I don't think so!

Well since my last entry both Matt and I have cooked a meal. Actually, Matt should have cooked 2 meals, but the first time he went to the store and came back with ready to eat chinese food. Hmmmm, not exactly cooking if you just have to open your fork!!

I had some left over basil from the salsa I made last week and so I used it to make some Summer chicken and basil stew.

I had to alter the recipe a bit. Instead of using 4 chicken thighs I used 1 chicken breast and 2 pork chops as I had them in the freezer and wanted to get rid of them.

It was a simple recipe and the comments from other cooks on the website said it was yummy! It was a bit of a disappointment to be honest.

The flavour was good, but it was missing 'something'. Matt suggested that some big beefy portobello mushrooms would have been good with it and I agree. I don't think I'll cook it again.

Then yesterday I stayed late at school to study for my organic chemistry test and so I emailed Matt asking him to be in charge of getting dinner. Luckily he remember his scolding when last time he returned with the chinese food, so this time when I got home there were 4 pots going on the stove. He made a lovely spaghetti dish with a creamy white wine sauce, scallops, mushrooms, spinach and tomatoes. Then at the table we sprinkled a little crumbled gorgonzola cheese on it. It was delicious!!!!! I could have easily had seconds, but I'm trying to stop that.

I did eat again later though; we have been watching the 1980s A team and so I had some large pretzel sticks while also pretending to be hannibal.

Penny was very confused and spent the whole time sitting on my lap wondering why food was hanging out of my mouth for such a long time!!