One Chicken …Five Meals
I bought a free range chicken from Tesco last week (would have used my local butcher but it was 10pm). This fine specimen (about 2kg) cost me the best part of nine quid. If I am to eat meat in these times of food inflation then I try to buy the good stuff and make it stretch. My one chicken gave [...]
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Mushroom Risotto
A typical dark night in winter and the kitchen window is rattling from the wind and the rain. Mrs W. is out herding brownies so we will be having dinner late. I decide to make what I believe to be her very favourite thing for supper …risotto. It’s such a handy dish for hoovering up [...]
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Chicken Soup and Wheaten Soda Bread
A bowl of soup can make for a warming and elegant supper. Roast chicken, clarified stock, butter beans, flageolet beans, tarragon, sausages, sauteed onion and crisp pancetta …not a bad result from the leftovers of the Sunday roast. We ate the soup with wheaten bread warm from the oven. Wheaten soda bread is a real [...]
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Chicken Supper
Simon Hopkinsons Roast Chicken …when you want the tastiest roast chicken supper …accept no substitute! Served up with home made ‘oven chips’ and steamed sprouting broccoli.
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A Special Weekend In The Snow
Just getting round to posting about last weekend. It was a biggie. The plan was for all Mrs W’s friends and family to secretly gather together for a relaxed, fun, weekend to celebrate her 30th. I started conspiring some 10 months in advance and arranged to hire Roaches Hall, a large country house in the [...]
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