Chorizo and Brandy Chicken
We tried this recipe for the first time a few weeks ago, it was featured on Saturday Kitchen broadcast on BBC1. It takes a little bit of time but it is a really tasty.
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My Idea Of A Traditional Christmas Dinner
Let me first begin by wishing everyone a belated Merry Christmas!!! I hope you all had a wonderful time over the festive period. Ours was special this year since it was our son’s very first Christmas. My uncle joined us from Scotland for the holidays so it was truly a family event.
Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas in our house without roast turkey and the trimmings, so that is exactly what we had. This is how the main course looked but I’ve included the recipe for the soup and the main course below.
Coq Au Riesling
Last night I was watching the new series from Nigella Lawson called Nigella Express. As you would expect from the title it’s about cooking great tasting food with minimal effort and time. The episode I watched showed Nigella’s take on an Alsacian classic, “Coq Au Riesling”. Living in here in Basel on the doorstep of Alsace good Alsacian wine is not difficult to come by so I decided I’d put Nigella’s claims to the test. So here it is..
The Perfect Roast Chicken!
Simple roast chicken, one of life’s most sublime dishes if done well. I LOVE roast chicken and searched for a long time before I found a recipe which I think provides the pefect roast bird, juicy with crispy skin!!
This cooking instructions for this roaster are from Delia Smith who is in my opinion the Queen of British cookery, you either love her or hate her and I’m a big fan. Her recipes work, plain and simple…
Ad Hoc Turkey Lasagne
What to do with a huge tray of turkey escalopes??? That was the question facing me today. I’ve been trying to use up all of the meat we had in the freezer and so over the past week or so we’ve been eating quite a lot of red meat and it’s much more than I’m used to so I really want to steer clear for a few days. There was a special offer on at the supermarket and since I can’t resist a bargain I bought a tray of turkey, my only problem was that there was 1.5kg of the stuff..
As I walked/waddled/hobbled around the supermarket last night I tried to figure out at least one dish I could use the turkey for… and then thanks to seeing some smoked bacon lardons I had one of those eureka moments.. I would make a lasagne. This would not be a traditional lasagne as Stewart doesn’t care for bechamel sauce. I have decided to try one of those, I’ll make it up as I go along recipes and hope it turns out ok.
Lily Kwok’s Curry
I was watching Great Food Live the other day and Jenni Barnet was interviewing Helen Tse. Helen is third generation British Chinese and has just written a book called Sweet Mandarin which details the story of her family and their journey from China to the UK, it sounded really interesting. Helen has also just opened a Pan Asian restaurant with her sisters in Manchester also under the name Sweet Mandarin.
This curry recipe came from Helen’s grandmother Lily and has apparently become very famous at the restaurant. I’m a real curry devotee so when I saw Helen make this on Great Food Live it was definitely a recipe I wanted to try out.
Bachelor’s-Prize Chicken
This recipe is another from a cookbook which has sat dormant on my bookcase for a couple of years and has been completely overlooked. Healthy Cooking For Two (or just for you) by Frances Price does have some rather unusual recipes but as I flicked through it this afternoon I came across a recipe which I though had some potential even though it had a bit of a strange title.
The name Bachelor’s-Prize apparently stems from the fact that “apparently” most singletons have peanut butter and natural yogurt in their fridge and that this recipe is so simple that “noncooking bachlors” are assured of success. Those are not my words or sentiments I hasten to add but those of the author.
Since I love just about anything featuring peanut butter I decided to proceed, adding a slight twist of my own.
Roasted Chicken Breast Wrapped In Pancetta With Leeks & Thyme
As anyone who has been a regular to this site will know I’m a big Jamie Oliver fan. Natalie bought me a copy of Jamie’s latest book Cook With Jamie for my birthday back in October but I’m afraid this coincided with the time in my pregnancy when cooking was the last thing on my mind. With a beautiful sunny day outside I’m in the mood for something equally as sunny and I have decided to dust off my Cook With Jamie and finally sample one of the recipes within.
There were so many good looking recipes which I really would have loved to try, like the tomato, basil and ricotta risotto but because of my diabetes I had to select carefully and unfortunately for the moment risotto is out.
We had some chicken in the fridge so a recipe from the section on Roasted Chicken Breasts was the most logical choice. I hope you like this one!
Soy and Mustard Chicken
I really LOVE our new George Foreman grill!!
A couple of years ago Stewart bought me a Jr Foreman grill and it we used it relentlessly until the non-stick coating wore off so a couple of weeks ago we ordered a new Foreman Grill. This time instead of a Jr grill we ordered a G5 and it’s wonderful! This one has removable hot plates for easy cleaning and also a variety of assorted plates for grilling, making waffles and also griddling. What more could you possibly want from a grill?
Tonight on I found this delicious sounding marinade recipe on Passionate About Food and thought it would be another great test for the George Foreman.
Shakshouka
Today was absolutely freezing. Thankfully we didn’t have any more snow last night, I think the five or six inches which fell the day before was quite sufficient. So to chase away the cold I decided to try an Alan Coxon recipe featured the other night on Great Food Live. I’m not the greatest fan of Alan Coxon, I find watching him makes me nervous as he is so hyper on screen but I do often really like his recipes.
I liked the sound of this rich, spicy and warming stew, it seemed like my kind of no nonsense cookery.
In the original recipe Alan Coxon served the Shakshouka with a chickpea curry, fresh tomatoes, fresh mint (which I dislike) and used homemade harissa but I really wasn’t in the mood for messing around with chickpeas (besides Stewart really loathes them), I would rather used canned tomatoes when they’re not in season and I decided that store bought harissa would suffice.
So here for you folks is my take on Alan Coxon’s recipe for Shakshouka..
