unexpected chicken

I found a bag of unlabelled … something in the freezer. It looked quite chickenish, and I assumed that it was a brace of chicken breasts. Anyhoo, out it came, with a vague plan to stuff with blue cheese. I was quite surprised post thawing to find that the bag in fact contained four chicken thighs, boned and skinned. Not really suitable for stuffing with anything.

Quick change of plan, then – I mixed some olive oil, sage*, salt, pepper and lemon juice, and basted the chicken with it, then put it in a foil-lined baking dish (saves washing up, if not the planet) at 180C.

Then I made a mushroom sauce thus:

A finely chopped shallot saluted down in olive oil, added thinly sliced mushrooms and cooked on low heat till they were nice and soft. Salt, pepper, splash of dry sherry, garlic powder, some cream that was nearly sour.

Took the chicken out of the oven after about twenty minutes, let it rest, gave some to the cats, and sliced the remainder into strips, which I added to the sauce. Ate with rice – delicious.

*  I started a new garlic powder, so took the lid off the finished one, and threw the empty glass jar into the recycling. As I did so, I heard a little swoosh sound, as the last of the sage went into the recycling.  Bugger.