Day 253 A Delicious Disaster

Yes, I finally did it. As many of my fellow female domestic goddess friends in the past, present and future, I have been planning a meal for hours just to get out a delicious but rather strange looking dish from the oven. Everything was well planned, the chicken breast from Waitrose I got from Helen and Steve, the carrots, parsnip, onion, garlic and potatoes from back home, fully organic, fried nicely and covered with a delicious white sauce seasoned with a bit of Italian sun-dried tomato and basil spice mix. I only made one mistake. Both the white sauce and the mash potato were a bit runny and the mash sank into the white sauce in the baking tray. As it disappeared in front of my eyes, I thought: I should have just served the mash next to the chicken and would have looked perfect. There was nothing I could do and when Melanie arrived I quickly explained what happened. She obviously liked it because she had seconds. It was maybe the tanginess of the horseradish and mustard I sneaked into the mash that saved the baby food-like texture :-)