A culinary moment

Last night I had a friend over for dinner and I had remembered that she was gluten free, but then only remembered she was also vegetarian in the nick of time to stop myself adding chicken to all of the risotto (just when I was thinking my recipe was the perfect thing for gluten-free folk!). I also discovered at the last minute that in my supermarket haste I had picked up coriander instead of continental parsley!!! They look so similar, but they certainly don't taste similar (I didn't actually add it - one whiff of it when I pulled it out of the sleeve and I thought 'oh dear'). So it wasn't my finest culinary moment. My hand has also blistered today where I got myself on the oven shelf. But we had a nice catch up all the same. She is currently doing a Masters in Theology on Gender and Identity - interesting stuff.