A stolen dish

Student Classic Part II: Chicken and Pepper Creamy Lemon Penne. No eating in the pub for me this evening so knocked this up in 20 minutes. Chicken chunks pan fried before adding diced pepper and onion. While that mixture softens and browns, the pasta is cooking. When it is nearly done add lemon juice to the chicken before pouring in the cream and cooked pasta with it. Stir and season. A little more black pepper suits me.

Strangely, I’ve previously had a variation on this dish stolen, insofar as such a basic meal can be. Following the end of a rental period on a shared house, I stayed on the sofa of a friend, D and his future wife, C for a week in the (mistaken) belief that my previous housemates and I could sort out another place to live in that period. In part payment of thanks for this I cooked for them a version of this dish but with sausage instead of chicken. At the end of that week, seeing that I was no closer to finding a house to live in and detecting I was starting to get under their feet, I thanked them for their hospitality, swallowed my pride and went to live my parents for a couple of months. Some weeks later with my independence reinstated and reunited with my old housemates, my housemate recalled how our mutual friends D and C had cooked this dish for him and called it their own! A form of flattery I guess.

Creamy lemon chicken and pepper pasta