As I’ve mentioned before, our local CoOp is really not bad, and I always take a beak at the reduced section where they put the items that have reached their sell-by date. About three weeks ago, I picked up two packs of chicken thighs – 11 thighs for £3.30. I stowed them in the freezer…
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chicken wings with lemon, black pepper and bay leaves
We are summoned to a supper party tonight where we must bring a dish. We’ve not been very well all week, and so no shopping has been done, thus a rummage in the store cupboards and freezers was required. There were two packs of chicken wings (10 wings in all) in there, so here’s what…
chicken soup
As I mentioned, there was a bit of a soup crisis yesterday, occasioning me to fetch the chicken carcass out of the freezer and bung it in the slow cooker to make stock. This morning, Pete nobly stripped the meat off it, and there was enough for at least one more meal! I put the…
chicken pie
With what I thought was the last of the chickie!, we made a pie. Roughly chopped an onion, and fried it off with a pack of pancetta cubes in some olive oil. Added some of the carrot/swede combo that I cooked on Sunday, some chopped sage from the herb garden, and some chopped chicken, and…
fennel and chickie! risotto
We had a lovely free range roast chickie! on Bank Holiday Monday, which has pretty much dominated our food this week. Last night – risotto. As I always say, 5oz risotto rice and 1pint of liquid feeds two hungrish folk. The liquid last night was a mix of lemon juice, rice wine and the indispensable…
a weekend's cooking
We had already set aside Saturday evening to make a batch of Pete’s Wondrous Chilli – the beans were boiled and slow-cookered on Friday night, and we set to and made it yesterday afternoon. 4lbs of lovely Dexter stewing beef was turned into 10 really rather generous portions; we shall have some for supper tonight,…
another potato bake
using up: cold roast chicken, half a bag of spinach, a mozzarella past its sell-by date A proper Reactive meal – first for a while. We are still ploughing through Sunday’s chicken, and had some other stuff that needed eating up. This worked really well, although next time I would poach the chicken in the…
chicken and apricot tagine
using up: some chicken thighs, peppers in green, red and yellow We needed to do some cooking for the freezer, so we looked at the ingredient stocks to see what we had. And what we had was a big bag of chicken thighs in the outside freezer, and thus a chicken tagine was born. On…
chicken stir fry
Using up: spring onions, red pepper, the last bit of courgette, half a lemon The thing about a stir fry is you can lob pretty much anything in it, but you need to have it all ready before you start. So, as you may see, I chopped four spring onions, a red pepper, a small…