Visitors, Birthday and Counting Crows
May is turning out to be a really busy Month. Had hightower Amran visit last weekend for some cooking goodness, zoo and beach visitations and naturally a healthy amount of xboxing madness. The weather (for a bank holiday weekend) was actually quite bearable, though Amran and Ruth still complained that it was cold!
On the cooking front this time I decided to not plan and just play it by ear, which resulted in the creation of a Cottagy Shepardsy Pie with Reggae Reggae sauce. It turned out quite well but I always seem to have a problem with putting too little potato on the top - ah well.
Sunday, being a "roast" day allowed us to create a sort of sweet and sour pot roast chicken - which sadly was a bit to hot (chili) for Emily to eat, and Ruth would have preferred about half the meat, but was really fantastic and sooo easy to do (will get round to putting these on the recipes page in due course). Served on a bed of free range egg noodles it wasn't exactly your traditional roast, but since when did that matter!
Monday we got some extra visitors in the form of the inlaws, apparently their decision to turn up for lunch was solidified when informed I would be frying my own chicken "roots" style (that's Levi for those not in the know). This required an overnight marination in a combination of various spices that were mixed "me" style (just shoved in, no measurements) which completely stunk the fridge out. Due to the larger numbers, which is not normally a problem, and the small fryer I have, the cooking process involved half frying 3 loads of chips, then 3 loads of chicken and then re frying the chips once more (with an oil change between chicken and chips). The result was delicious but sadly I shall not be doing this again for numbers greater than 3 or 4 unless I either have a bigger fryer (nothing worse than smelling nice food for an hour and a half and not being able to eat it yet!)
So all in all a great bank holiday weekend, more visitors and visits are planned this month in the form of Luke, and then Auntie Emma and Uncle Nick, with a trip to see Grandma Choc Choc in between, my Birthday and ermm... oh yeah, me and Emu are off to see the magnificent Crows for either the 4th or 5th time (but definitely not the last) more on that no doubt after the great event.
On the cooking front this time I decided to not plan and just play it by ear, which resulted in the creation of a Cottagy Shepardsy Pie with Reggae Reggae sauce. It turned out quite well but I always seem to have a problem with putting too little potato on the top - ah well.
Sunday, being a "roast" day allowed us to create a sort of sweet and sour pot roast chicken - which sadly was a bit to hot (chili) for Emily to eat, and Ruth would have preferred about half the meat, but was really fantastic and sooo easy to do (will get round to putting these on the recipes page in due course). Served on a bed of free range egg noodles it wasn't exactly your traditional roast, but since when did that matter!
Monday we got some extra visitors in the form of the inlaws, apparently their decision to turn up for lunch was solidified when informed I would be frying my own chicken "roots" style (that's Levi for those not in the know). This required an overnight marination in a combination of various spices that were mixed "me" style (just shoved in, no measurements) which completely stunk the fridge out. Due to the larger numbers, which is not normally a problem, and the small fryer I have, the cooking process involved half frying 3 loads of chips, then 3 loads of chicken and then re frying the chips once more (with an oil change between chicken and chips). The result was delicious but sadly I shall not be doing this again for numbers greater than 3 or 4 unless I either have a bigger fryer (nothing worse than smelling nice food for an hour and a half and not being able to eat it yet!)
So all in all a great bank holiday weekend, more visitors and visits are planned this month in the form of Luke, and then Auntie Emma and Uncle Nick, with a trip to see Grandma Choc Choc in between, my Birthday and ermm... oh yeah, me and Emu are off to see the magnificent Crows for either the 4th or 5th time (but definitely not the last) more on that no doubt after the great event.
posted by Captin at
08:25
1 Comments:
the reggae reggae cottagy shepardsy pie went down a treat. nothing better than hearty hot tasty stodge on a chilly spring day.
i think next time we will have to do per-oper burgers. with per-oper muffins. and per-oper chips. and a whole heap o'chilli
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