Garlic and Lemon Chicken with Tomato Pilaf and Mother's Birthday Cake

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	Still a Birthday Cake Chocolate cake with buttercream icing.
	Garlic and Lemon Chicken with Tomato Pilaf Garlic and Lemon Chicken with Tomato Pilaf
	Garlic and Lemon Chicken with Tomato Pilaf Garlic and Lemon Chicken with Tomato Pilaf

Notes: The garlic and lemon chicken was lovely! I oven baked marylands rather than doing wings like in the recipe, but next time will go with wings. The skin really took on the flavours of the marinade, and it was crisp and juicy. The tomato pilaf was pretty good too, and was unusual in that in the recipe you start with 500gs of tomatoes, blend them, and then add a few bits and pieces, and use that as the water for the rice. I cheated and used a tin of tomatoes which I then blended.

The vegetable dish for the night was a lot like loobia, except it had carrots, and chickpeas. I cooked up some chick peas and made hummus for tomorrow night, and froze the rest to help me get into using them more in cooking. I want to use more legumes etc, so I have to start somewhere!
The chick peas were yummier than from a can. Weird. :-)