long winded soup

I made anĀ epic chicken soup yesterday, which will never be repeated, due to the rather convoluted process which led to it. Firstly take one chicken. Set it on a bed of (thawed) frozen casserole veg, put a lemon inside, sprinkle with garlic powder, and roast. Serve with roast spuds, cabbage and stuffing. Second night was…

potato and chicken bake

Using up: cold roast chickie!, old potatoes, spring onions from a friend’s garden, cream bought for supper on Saturday and not eaten (due to circumstances beyond our control) This is a real bitsa one – I’m pleased with it, because it was lovely. Chopped some very elderly potatoes into slices about 1/4″ thick, and layered…

mongrel soup

As mentioned previously, soup was in the offing. I boiled up the chickie! carcass from the freezer yesterday, and used the stock to make ris e bisi, and very nice it was too. The rest has been turned into soup, with some carrots, some exceedingly wrinkled potatoes and – believe it or not – a…

I love my freezer …

It is the Summer; and thus it is cold, and raining, and generally bloody miserable, weather wise. In the fridge I have some peapods – mostly empty, because Pete got to the bowl of peas, but still. I have a plan for these pods tonight, which I shall reveal to you later. I need some…