Sliced Chicken with apples, pears and camembert mashed potatoes

As adapted from the cookbook "Rachael Ray's Look+Cook"

2 pounds baby potatoes
salt
1T EVOO
4 pieces boneless skinless chicken breast
black pepper
2T butter
1 Gala, Honeycrisp or Golden Delicious Apple peeled, cored and diced
freshly grated nutmeg, 1/4 tsp
zest and juice of 1 lemon
2T honey
150g ripe camembert cheese, diced into bite sized pieces

1/4 to 1/3 cup milk, half and half or cream
10-12 blades of chives, chopped
2T fresh thyme leaves, finely chopped

Halve or quarter the potatoes, cover with water in a large pot and bring to a boil.  Season with salt. Cook 12-15 min until fork tender.  Heat the EVOO in a large nonstick skillet over med-high heat. Season the chicken with salt and pepper on both sides and cook the chicken until golden and firm about 12 min, turning once.  Place the chicken on a plate and cover with foil to keep warm.  In the same skillet melt the butter over medium heat, add the apples & pears and season with salt and nutmeg. Stir in the lemon juice and cook for 5 min or until tender crisp and thir in the honey and cook for a minute more. Drain the potatoes and return them to the pot.  Mash them with the cheese and milk, season with salt/pepper to taste.  Divide the potatoes among 4 plates.  Slice the chicken breasts on an angle.  Arrange the sliced chicken alongside the potatoes and top with the apples and pears. Combine the chives with the thyme and lemon zest and scatter over each plate.

I was a little skepical about this one - fruit and chicken?  Weird!!  As it turned out Miss Almost Vegetarian wasn't a big fan but did eat all the fruit off the top while avoiding the mashed potatoes and chicken as much as possible.  Mr Picky thought the chicken was good but thought the fruit was just "ok".  He adored the mashed potatoes though and asked for seconds.  Both DH and I LOVED the chicken with the fruit on top but thought the potatoes were just so-so.  

We definitely will make the chicken again but would either add less cheese to the potatoes or add a different kind of cheese.