A pretty good chicken recipe, actually

First of all, thank you to all my many fans that helped make my Beckham write one of the top viewed stories on the CNN.com website for the day. 360,000 hits before noon - more than 1/4 of a MILLION people. I would like to say it is my extraordinary writing ability that thinking people everywhere are clamoring to read, but I fear I could have written "tooth decay... tooth decay...BECKHAM.... tooth decay... tooth decay.... BECKHAM" over and over and still would have hit the 1/4 million club. Sigh.

Dancing was sort of a non-starter. The DJ blew out the sound system on Michael Jackson "Rock With You" and so we rolled. We did see the employee screening of Harry Potter at 9am on Sat morning - v.v. good, actually. If you cant stand all that blathering about wizards and witches and bibbidy bobbidy boo bullshit, this is still worth seeing. Amazing to look at. We also saw "Transformers" and there was LESS than meets the eye. Shit blows up. You get the picture.

Anyway, as a prize for sitting through that drivel: My new favorite chicken breast recipe. I dont really like chicken, and like grilled chicken breasts even less: that fluffy tasteless flesh leaves me cold. But the Obsessive Compulsives at Cooks Illustrated recently printed a recipe that I think is tasty and easy. Maybe you all have a great go-to chicken recipes, but if not this one's pretty good.

1 tsp Dijon mustard
2 TB lemon juice
6 TB olive oil
1 TB parsley leaves
1 ¼ tsp sugar
Salt & Pepper

3 garlic cloves pressed
2 TB water
4 chicken breasts

Whisk together mustard, 1 TB lemon juice, 3 TB olive oil, parsley, ¼ tsp sugar, ¼ tsp salt, and ¼ tsp pepper. Set aside.

Whisk together remaining TB lemon juice, 3 TB olive oil, tsp sugar, 1 ½ tsp salt, ½ tsp pepper, garlic, water,. Put in ziplock w chicken. Marinates no less than 30 mins and no more than 1 hour.

[hysterically convoluted grilling directions] to summarize: on medium-hot grill, put chicken breasts smooth side down and put top down on grill. Cook until grill marks show (about 6-9 mins). Rotate and flip chicken and cover grill. Flip and cook again 1 min each side. Take off grill and let sit for a bit. Cut into slices and drizzle with sauce.