Summer Roast Chicken
As is now traditional, whenever we arrive home from a holiday, we cook roast chicken. It’s a comforting dish and one we always look forward to, particularly when we’ve been away and eating unusual foods. Neither of us particularly wanted roast potatoes – it was hot and we had eaten a lot of bad foods […]
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We’ve been without broadband for a few days, due to some unknown BT fault, hence the very late update – we actually ate this on Wednesday. I feel I should try to say something interesting, given the gap in posting, but this was actually made with ready-made paste that has been in the freezer for […]
Read More..>>Chicken with Thyme
After Wednesday night’s fail, Stephen offered to cook chicken with tarragon sauce on Friday night. Except he couldn’t find tarragon so yet another attempt to try the aniseedy herb was thwarted. He did still cook dinner and used the same Delia recipe he was intending to use but substituted the tarragon for thyme. It worked […]
Read More..>>Grilled Chicken with Muscat Wine and Thyme – FAIL
I took a couple of recipe books to bed with me last night, in the hope of finding something for tonight’s dinner. I had a vague plan to cook chicken with a tarragon sauce, partly because a friend cooked it recently and commented on how good it was and partly because I’m trying to like […]
Read More..>>Leftover Roast Chicken
Knowing we would have leftovers from yesterday’s roast chicken, I planned this in advance, based on something we ate last year. Stephen isn’t feeling very well this evening so, since it was just me eating, the temptation to eat something quick and easy was strong. Not wanting to waste the best part of half a […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
While staying with my mum, I remembered that last time I had visited, I froze a roast chicken. I can’t remember why, I suspect we just made other plans for lunch but, knowing it was there, I decided I would roast it on Friday night. I defrosted it slowly overnight but, when it came to […]
Read More..>>Chicken Tagine
We had originally planned to cook this Moroccan recipe from Jamie Oliver’s new “Jamie Does…” cookbook last week but the “marinate and refrigerate overnight” foiled us. The same thing nearly happened today but luckily we realised in time and, rather than eat this for lunch as planned, we ate it for dinner instead. Not quite […]
Read More..>>Asparagus and Chicken Risotto
I spotted the first of the English asparagus in Waitrose yesterday so eagerly grabbed some without giving much thought to what I was going to use it for. It seemed too early for asparagus but looking back at last year’s posts, we had the first of the season on the same week of the year. […]
Read More..>>Stir Fried Chicken with Szechuan Pepper
We planned a quick dinner this evening of stir fried chicken and bought most of the ingredients yesterday. We weren’t quite sure on an exact recipe, which was left up to me as I arrived home first and started slicing things. I sliced an orange pepper, half an onion, some baby corn and a large […]
Read More..>>Herbed Chicken with Persian Jewelled Rice
We fancied roast chicken for lunch but with today marking the official arrival of Spring (and the weather actually co-operating), we wanted something lighter than the traditional Sunday Roast. Stephen made up a marinade consisting of olives, lemon zest, coriander, parsley, mint, onion and garlic. This was blended with oil and salt and pepper in […]
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