Perfect Herb & Lemon Roast Chicken
The motto of "you get what you pay for" is true in many ways and definitely when it comes to good food. This free range chicken weighed 2.4kg and cost 8,47 euro. It's going to feed us the roast, then a pie, enough for a salad and then stock to freeze plus a good 3 days of chicken broth lunches. Happy days!
The Beast!
The Herb & Butter "stuffing"
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme chopped very finely. Mix with zest of 1 lemon (don't throw the lemon away) ...
Rich Minced Meat Sauce
The weathers a changing, time for some Autumn comfort food and using my favourite slow cooker. The one I've got is a Morphy Richards and it's just terrific as the pan is metal so you can sauté, sear and cook everything in one pan! Sounds good eh? Only trouble is it doesn't work on my induction hob so had to use a frying pan to begin, stupid gas hob playing up yet again....
Sauté:
1 finely diced red onion, 1 finely diced white onion, 2 fat cloves of chopped garlic, a ...
Tastier than takeaway Chinese Pork and Mushrooms
Disclaimer: We're in Southern Sicily, like I'd get a takeaway delivered here anyway!
Tender pork tenderloin (pork fillet) marinated in ginger, garlic, chilli, light soy, hoisin, honey and 5 spice. Yep, cheat night and I can't wait :). Not sure as I write this what to serve it with, stir fried noodles or cauliflower rice? Did I mention it's cheat night?
The marinade:
1 tsp Chinese 5 spice powder, 2 cloves grated garlic, knob of grated garlic, 1 chopped chilli, 1 tsp honey, ...
Coconut Beef and Sweet Potato Curry
Missing ingredient definitely spinach! Lovely wilted in at the end, it wasn't on my shopping list...I'm useless without a compete list! That said I did have a couple of handfuls of sugar snap peas left, so in they went.
It really doesn't take very long and then the curry just merrily cooks away in your slow cooker/thermal cooker/ stove top or in the oven. (Our slow cooker works off of our 12v through the inverter, many people I know have a "thermal cooker" usually a metal pan ...
Chicken breast filled with Melting Blue Cheese, Chestnut Mushrooms, wrapped in Bacon
Seriously this was so good, I'd happily serve it to guests. Actually prepared yesterday but then we decided to go out, took out of the fridge today an hour before cooking and it worked perfectly (another reason I'd be delighted to make for a supper party!). Checking the dish, the smell coming from the oven was just to die for.
All you need is:
2 chicken breasts, 6 slices of bacon.
1 red onion, finely diced. 1 clove of garlic, grated. Finely diced chestnut mushrooms, I had 4 ...
Squidgy Chocolate & Almond Squares (Spartanites)
(The tin was full when I handed it to them...)
Yummy indulgent treats with no refined sugar or grain. No, I'm not saying eat the whole batch in one go!
Spartanites? Well unfortunately I'm leaving Malta this weekend so wanted to make a "thank you for having me) gift for the amazing Spartan crowd. (www.spartankettlebellsmalta.com). Best gym ever! Ok, food..
Melt 250g of butter with 200g of 70% dark chocolate.
In a separate bowl whisk 4 eggs together with a tablespoon ...
Stuffed Pork with Mushrooms and Creamy Cider Sauce
Just two things before we get cracking, first I'd use pork fillet (tenderloin) next time but only had a small joint of pork in the freezer and couldn't be bothered to go ashore again as our outboard engine has died AGAIN....... (Hate rowing, I go around in circles and get very cross much to the amusement of the Boss!)
For the stuffing, I'd just finished making the mushroom bites mixture so took a few tablespoons of that as well as some of the onion and sliced chestnut mushrooms. Super quick ...
Mushroom Bites
These are like a falafel flavour wise but packed with meaty chestnut mushrooms, blitzed cauliflower and spices. Tasty as they are, would be great as part of a tapas selection with creamy yoghurt sauce :-)
1 onion, chunked. 2 cloves of garlic. Freshly chopped parsley.
1 tsp of ground coriander, cumin, chilli powder, sweet paprika powder, sea salt, black pepper and 1/2 tsp of ground cinnamon. Blitz this all together to make a paste.
250g of mushrooms, ...
Asian Duck Breast, Sugar Snap Peas and Cauliflower Rice
Ever want to indulge in something delicious without much effort? I do all the time! We're pretty exhausted after over four weeks non-stop of people on the boat, and an insane amount of miles covered, so tonight is all about comfort eating and relaxation :-)
Delighted to buy duck breasts (frozen) from the local supermarket. My sauce is improvised as I'd usually use orange but we'd run out. Lemon worked perfectly as I've got delicious Indonesian ketjap manis for sweetness.
Here we ...
Fajita spice, tomato salsa – please, please make your own!
Yeah I know this is easy peasy but many of us in the Mediterranean like fajitas but can't buy readily made stuff (plus the packs are full of sugar and sodium). Anyhow this works well for us, find your spice blend and kindly share it with me? :-)
It's really ridiculously easy, follow your taste buds and combine:
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper.
Ground cumin, chilli powder, sweet paprika powder, a little cinnamon, dried ground oregano.
Tomato Salsa:...
