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sojourner said:
I have a chicken thigh, a few spuds, and some baby corn and broccoli that need using up, so that.
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I don't want this anymore, it's boring and and I'm not looking forward to it

I might make a king prawn and chicken thigh thai red curry instead, that sounds much nicer:cool:
 
dolly's gal said:
nadda.

well, booze, drugs. combo of the two. yummy :)
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mmMMMMmmmm :D I think I'm gonna polish off a bottle of red when I get home, before tea, and WITH a bag of crisps

Party fucking ON dude :cool:
 
i'm having beef with sweet potato i think. then i'm going to the pub for a friends leaving drinks. i shall be drinking cola , fruit juice and fzzy water, and eating pork scratchings by the bucketload
 
We're having pizza as I'm too tired and fed up to cook. Maybe with some red wine, although a side effect of this fluey virusy thing is that I don't really fancy alcohol. :(
 
Had a roast chicken with roast parsnips carrots and potatoes. Plenty of leftovers so im going to make some stock, some soup and chicken sandwiches:) Am getting better at carving, I was able to cut off both of the breasts and the legs intact:cool:
My boy is such a carnivore. He wanted to have a whole leg, mainly because he wanted to rip off the meat and check out the bones :D Thats ma boy!
 
moomoo said:
Saturday night is turning into our M&S night. :D :cool:

Tonight though, we have baked potatoes with cheese and coleslaw naturally, salad and chinese chicken wings.

And I've treated myself to a bottle of wine. :cool:
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We just had vegetable moussaka and chips :cool: It was lovely. Rhubarb crumbles are in the oven :)
 
Last night I had roast chicken thighs and cauliflower cheese which I had been craving all day.
Tonight I had more roast chicken thighs, roasted butternut squash with chilli and garlic and curly kale. I even had a bit of cheese sauce to dip my squash in, and it was bloomin lovely. I was going to break my no-pudding habit and bake an apple too, but I forgot to get ice-cream and baked apples just aren't worth it without ice-cream.
 
sheothebudworths said:
The thighs are easily my fave bit of the chicken. :cool:


There's an old Nigel Slater recipe that I make from time to time for chicken and cashew curry soj, where the skin is kept on even though it's ultimately cooked in liquid.
You brown the skin first and then it's only really cooked in enough liquid to cook it through and provide a sauce (you keep adding as neccessary), rather than to drown it and stew it.

And the skin's lovely!

Not exactly crispy obviously, but with the flavour from being fried, with the addition of a pleasurable sort of claggy, thickness (can't think of any other way to describe it :D ) where it's kind of soaked up some of the thick sauce. LUSH!
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Can you please please please post the recipe for this? I've got another pack of chicken thighs in the freezer that need using. I was going to make this stew I've had at a Colombian restaurant with tomatoes and coriander but I'm bored of that.
 
OMG i had the BEST dinner at my work xmas party. they did this buffet with roast beef, seafood pasta in cream sauce, baked chicken, mash and gravy, mashed butternut squash, brocolli with cheese sauce, and this incredible fluffy stuffing with pieces of chicken & veggies in it.

It was unbelievable but I only ate one plate cause there were 200 people there and i didn't want to look like a pig. Otherwise I would have eaten three plates. :oops:

Top notch food but I don't know if it was worth the 170 mile round trip :D
 
I think we will have a takeaway pizza as it's cold and it's Saturday and I can't be bothered to go food shopping and the kids will think I'm the best mum ever! :cool:

We have a new 'Pizza Hut' delivery place opened so might give that a go. :)
 
tonite I have a date and we're supposed to go to this huge xmas party with all sorts of food and stuff. but there's a HUGE snow storm coming in tonite so we may not go. right now its bleedin 23 degrees (F).

the party is far away so we just may go out for sushi around here somewhere. :)
 
Enid Laundromat said:
Can you please please please post the recipe for this? I've got another pack of chicken thighs in the freezer that need using. I was going to make this stew I've had at a Colombian restaurant with tomatoes and coriander but I'm bored of that.
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No trouble....


Cashew nut and ginger chicken

2 tbsp groundnut oil
8 chicken pieces
1 onion
1 small fresh chilli pepper
1 piece fresh ginger, pelled and grated
2 cloves of garlic, peeled and crushed
110g/4 oz cashew nuts
2 tsp ground coriander
2 tsp ground turmeric
285ml/0.5 pint of chicken stock or water
2 large apples, cored and chopped
4 tbsp double cream

Pour the oil into a heavy based shallow pan and add 4 of the chicken pieces. Leave them to cook on a high heat until the skin turns crisp and golden. Turn each piece once to cook the other side.
Remove to a plate and repeat with the remaining pieces.

While they are cooking, peel and coarsely chop the onion and blend it with the chilli, ginger and garlic. Blend until a paste is formed, adding a tbsp of water if the mixture becomes dry.

Add the paste to the pan in which you cooked the chicken and fry until it colours a little, about 3 minutes, stirring regularly.

Add the cashews and spices and fry until the cashews are slightly toasted. Pour in the stock/water and bring to the boil.

Turn down the heat, add the apples and cream and cook for five minutes before returning the chicken to the pan. Simmer for 25 minutes.

Serves 4


The only thing I would add is that it really is worth taking your time with the first bit, so that the chicken is actually partially cooked rather than just browned, else I've found it's taken longer than the 25 minutes to actually cook the chicken through in the relatively small amount of liquid.
I also quite frequently add a little bit of liquid here and there.

Mind you, the benefit of cooking it for longer is that the apples start sticking to the pan and caramelising (it's definitely a dish that needs a regular stir) which all adds to the flavour. :cool:

Also, I would season the chicken before frying.
 
We're having the roast lamb, roast potatoes and greek salad that we didn't eat the night before last, because I had predicted it wouldn't defrost in time, and that we didn't have last night either, cos we had a chinese.

DEFINITELY eating it tonight though - it's already in the oven in fact!
 
M&S butternut squash and goat's cheese lasagne (food of the gods) with broccoli and maybe some other veg as well :cool: I shall also be drinking reduced Bucks Fizz from Sainsbury (£1.61!) while watching Strictly Come Dancing :cool:
 
dunno, too tired to care :) maybe pasta with chorizo and peppers. i have some salad to use up but its a bit wilted, and its not really salad weather :)

or i can raid the freezer
 
I don't know but slowly edging toward ordering paneer tikka masala.

Im very hungover and standing up is not easy at the moment.
 
pizza - takeout pizza. went out last night and am now feeling hideous so all tonights plans have been shelved in favour of lying on the sofa, eating pizza and watching telly. bliss :cool:
 
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