Stir Fried Chicken with Cashew Nuts
A quick almost-all-store-cupboard dinner for Tuesday evening. We defrosted some chicken breasts overnight, then sliced them thinly. We heated up some oil in a wok, then added finely chopped garlic for about 30 seconds before adding the chicken. At this point I added a little freshly ground black pepper and enjoyed the aroma of it […]
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We had some friends over for dinner last night to celebrate the start of the long weekend. I’ve been waiting for the right time to cook scallops and pork belly since eating it in a restaurant last year and this was the perfect opportunity. Unfortunately, I didn’t take in to account just how much the […]
Read More..>>Bombay Bicycle Club
We’ve been having some re-decoration done on our flat this week which has meant we’ve been living with lots of dust and disruption since Monday. Despite this, we’ve still managed to eat fairly well but last night we gave in and decided to order a takeaway. I was ridiculously over-excited about this prospect as, apart […]
Read More..>>Chicken Fajitas
Although we do most of our cooking together, this is definitely one of Stephen’s dishes, today however I thought I would give it a go. We haven’t had fajitas for some time though and I couldn’t remember exactly what we (well, Stephen) normally does. Looking back through the archives normally helps with this but the […]
Read More..>>Roast Chicken
Roast chicken is not usually a weekday meal for us, but due to my badly planned shopping trip yesterday, we ended up with a chicken that needed to be used. We debated whether or not to post about it as we’ve posted about roast chicken hundreds of times before, but the point of Dinner Diary […]
Read More..>>Chicken wrapped in Parma Ham
I wasn’t particularly excited about this but we had two leftover chicken breasts following yesterday’s green curry and were stuck for something else to do with them. I’d love to say that it turned out brilliantly but unfortunately it didn’t. We seasoned the chicken breasts with pepper and parmesan cheese before wrapping them in Parma […]
Read More..>>Thai Green Curry With Chicken
This is an old favourite and one that we eat often, or so I thought. It turns out we last ate it in September which is really quite a while ago. Like last time, we speeded things up again (by adding the vegetables earlier and cooking the curry for a shorter time) and it seemed […]
Read More..>>Khmer Chicken Samla with Coconut Milk
This is one of the first Thai dishes I ever ate, cooked by Stephen’s sister. I really enjoyed it and they subsequently bought us the book they found the recipe in: Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet by Jeremy Alford and Naomi Dugold. We’ve cooked it ourselves but neither of us remembered that until we started cooking. […]
Read More..>>Chicken Kiev
Chicken Kiev has become something of a byword for outdated, retro-but-not-cool food along with prawn cocktail and similar dishes that were once considered the height of fashion but have since fallen from grace. It’s a shame really, as when they are done well, they can be very good. I used to like chicken kiev when […]
Read More..>>Chicken Stir-Fry
As happens pretty often on a Monday, we planned to eat leftovers from yesterday’s roast only to find that there wassn’t actually anything left over. A quick scramble through the freezer revealed very little in the way of inspiration, other than one, small, sad looking chicken breast. I braved the rain this afternoon to buy […]
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