This is a perfect way to jazz up roast chicken. 🙂 Ingredients: Serves 3. 3 chicken breasts Salt and pepper 3/4 cup of apricot jam 1 tablespoon of grainy mustard 1/4 cup of water Leaves from 2 sprigs of thyme (optional) Method: Preheat oven to 200C/180 Fan/400FPlace the chicken on a rimmed baking tray lined … Continue reading Apricot-Mustard Baked Chicken
How did you spend your weekend? Despite being under a stay-at-home order, this past weekend turned out to be quite a full one. 🙂 Saturday - Up at 08.00, bed at 22.30. Step count - 11,623: Shower and breakfastWalked 4 laps of the park with Tilly - the outside temperature was -3C, so I kept … Continue reading How Was Your Weekend?
Ingredients: (Serves 3) 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts Cherry tomatoes, as many you like, halved Angel hair pasta (or whichever you prefer) 4 tablespoons of olive oil Salt and pepper 1 onion, chopped 2 cloves of garlic, minced 300 mls single cream (more if you like plenty of sauce) 1 cup of chicken broth 1 … Continue reading Creamy Roasted Tomato and Chicken Pasta
Source Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups plain flour 1/2 teaspoon baking powder 1/4 teaspoon salt 4 ozs unsalted softened butter 1/2 cup packed brown sugar 1/2 cup caster sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 1 1/2 cups white cooking chocolate, chopped into small pieces 1 cup of cranberries (fresh or dried) 1 large egg Gift some, if … Continue reading Lockdown Baking | Cranberry and White Chocolate Cookies
Lockdown baking is back. 🙂 Find US to UK baking conversions here. Ingredients: 1 and 1/2 cups of self-raising flour 1/2 cup of caster sugar 1 and 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder Generous pinch of salt 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon 1/3 cup of melted butter (I used unsalted) 1 large egg 1 and 1/2 … Continue reading Lockdown Baking | Blueberry Muffins with Streusel Topping
September means that the Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness is approaching. It also means that Shimelle is running her annual class, Learn Something New Every Day.As with the previous few years, I’m recording what I’ve learned throughout September here. Day 11: Walking the 4 miles to school and back is not a bad way to begin the day. Day … Continue reading Learn Something New Every Day | September 2020 | Days 11-15
Ingredients (serves 3): Olive oil Salt and pepper 3 chicken breasts, cut into 1" pieces 3 tablespoons flour 3/4 cup apricot jam 1 garlic clove, minced 2 tablespoons soy sauce 1 and 1/2 tablespoons brown sugar Chopped chives, for garnish Method: Toss the diced chicken with salt and pepper. Sprinkle the flour all over and … Continue reading Sticky Apricot Chicken
Ingredients: 3 tbsp olive oil 2 tbsp wholegrain mustard 350 g new potatoes, big ones halved 4 skin-on chicken legs (I used chicken breasts) 2 large leeks 1 tbsp plain flour 50 ml chicken stock 200 g crème fraîche 2 tbsp freshly chopped parsley Method: Preheat the oven to 200C/Gas 6. Heat 2 tbsp of … Continue reading Crème Fraîche Chicken
Ingredients: As many tomatoes as you like (there is no such thing as too many tomatoes) Two chicken breasts Olive oil Salt and peppper 1/2 onion, sliced into thin half-moons Pasta of your choice (enough for as many people as you are feeding) 1/2 cup chicken or vegetable broth 1/2 cup of apple juice 1/2 … Continue reading Roasted Tomato and Chicken Pasta with Caramelized Onions
Week 25: It was a slow news week. The Boy Child had a Zoom meeting with his teacher and fellow students. Tilly had the right idea. We met up with my lovely SiL for a socially-distanced walk in the woods with the dogs. Week 26: I had an appointment at my GP's surgery. I made … Continue reading Project Life Revisited | Weeks 25 and 26
