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I am feeling rather pleased with myself tonight! Finally, after several months of negligence, I started my guitar practise again - hurrah!! Granted, I am back to square one again, but I have had a lovely afternoon plucking away and trying to make recognisable notes :-) Hopefully this time I can actually make some progress ....

My second reason for celebration is that I cooked myself dinner! Well, not so much that I cooked, but more because Hubby called last minute to say he was going out with some colleagues for dinner, and I still cooked!!

Anyone who knows me knows that when left to fend for myself I generally resort to takeaways, frozen pizza, or Crunchy Nut Cornflakes - yum! I did consider popping round to Chipotle after he phoned, but I had already defrosted the pork for the pesto and mozzarella stuffed chops I had been planning, so I decided to have a go anyway.

Well, after my last couple of fails (I didn't even bother reporting Thursday's chicken satay fail - so bland!) I am delighted to report that tonight was a success!!

A couple of tweaks to make for next time:

1. Use thicker chops as they were a bit tricky to slit open to stuff. One was fine but the other was less stuffed and more strategically packed to stop the filling escaping through the many holes ...
2. More seasoning required in the coating 

But all in all they were bloody delicious - so much so that I ate the second one too!!

Cooking win = diet fail! Whoops ....... :-)
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