222/365 What's for Dinner Monday

at the Farmer's Market on Friday I bought a leek because...

it was pretty and I wanted a picture.

and decided it would make a nice centerpiece (ok not really but I still think it is pretty)

but I had a problem, I had no idea of what a leek was or what to do with it, so off I was to find a recipe. Salvation was found in Rachel Ray's 365: No Repeats Cookbook, recipe no. 121 which she calls Spring Chicken but I have been calling it:

 6 months in a "leeky" boat chicken with lemon infused rice

(of course this is a reference to the 80's Split Enz song which I have been singing all day)

the main players: 

chicken stock, wine, rice, butter, leek, lemon, frozen sweet peas,chicken breasts, flat leaf parsley 

a few close ups of our players:

leek (my new favourite)

Lemon (from the farmers market) 

only if their was smell-a-vision, this smelt so good.

I am not going to post the recipe yet as I  really struggled with it today. It turned out good and for the most part the family liked it. However,  I misread the directions and I personally  think she uses too much butter/olive oil in cooking the chicken so the chicken ended up being overcooked a bit and the rice was strongly infused with lemon due to my inability to follow instructions.

I am going to try it again and will post a recipe at that time. I really liked it but I just think before I share it I should be able to share exactly how it is to be put together without the 4 different pots I ended up using!